Batteries
Partnership website: https://bepassociation.eu/about/batt4eu-partnership/
As a co-programmed partnership, BATT4EU brings together the public sector (the European Commission) and the private sector (the European battery R&I stakeholders, BEPA) with the aim to achieve a competitive and sustainable European industrial value-chain for e-mobility and stationary applications.
BEPA already gathers a total of 137 members of which 54 are industrial players, 56 research organisations, 27 associations, and others.
Aside from some general objectives, the Batteries Partnership (BATT4EU) has various measurable, operational objectives:
Operational objectives:
- Increase battery energy density (+60% compared to 2019 values)
- Increase battery power density and charging rate
- Improve cycle lifetime (at least by a factor of 2 compared to 2019 state-of-the-art values)
- Reduce battery cost (-60% compared to 2019 values)
- Ensure battery safety in the different targeted application sectors
- Implement worldwide best available technologies in manufacturing and recycling operations
- Enhance the sustainability of the main supply chains of battery raw materials and achieve the lowest possible carbon footprint of the supply chain from raw materials extraction through battery manufacturing, use and recycling
Various BATT4EU labeled research topics in Horizon Europe aim to contribute to achieving these operational objectives. You can find these call topics in the regular Horizon Europe cluster 5 work programme, e.g.:
HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-02: Non-Li Sustainable Batteries with European Supply Chains for Stationary Storage (Batt4EU Partnership).
The prioritization and drafting of future Horizon Europe call topics on batteries are restricted to members of BEPA.
Key documents
What are partnerships?
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
How to use partnerships?
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orientation
Partnerships publish strategic documents, e.g. outlining the main research and innovation challenges or key focus points. -
networking
Partnerships often organise events, such as info days, brokerage events, etc. Meet potential partners and learn about the nuances that are not visible in the official documents. -
ecosystem analysis
Partnerships typically have an advisory board, and publish impact studies of previous actions. These are good sources of information to uncover the main R&D&I players in the domain. -
steering the agenda
Partnerships collaborate with the EC on outlining the strategy and the future funding opportunities in their domain, based on input from industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
Testimonial
Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations
Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
