Support for establishment of R&I ecosystem, developing strategic forward-looking orientations to ensure future skills development, knowledge and technological leadership for accelerated disruptive technology exploration and uptake (Batteries Partnership)

Expected Outcome:

In order to succeed in the development of a thriving innovative battery industry, pan-European cooperation on research and innovation is essential. It is not only essential to work across geographical boarders and institutional levels but it is also crucial that stakeholders from all parts of the battery value chain pull together in a strategic coordinated manner to ensure our collective research efforts are efficiently translated into sustainable technologies and products economically, environmentally and socially.

Europe has an extensive landscape of battery R&I stakeholders. Thus there is a need to continuously consolidate the Battery R&I community across the EU and associated countries and across Battery-related networks, projects and initiatives (including European, national, regional – HEU Partnerships, IPCEIs, Interregional partnership on advanced battery materials, European Battery Alliance and coordination actions including BATTERY 2030+, LiPLANET).

Project results are expected to contribute to all/ of the following expected outcomes:

• Consolidated Battery R&I community across the EU and associated countries and across Battery-related networks, projects and initiatives (including European, national, regional – HEU Partnerships, IPCEIs, Interregional partnership on advanced battery materials, European Battery Alliance and coordination actions including BATTERY 2030+, LiPLANET, and other initiatives established until the project end). Exceptional participation of third country participants is therefore not foreseen.
• Facilitated access to information for all – enabled European “one-stop shop” on Battery R&I information, including information on national programmes, events, battery projects and national battery networks (via website and other communication channels) reaching as many as possible battery stakeholders.
• Reduced time to market of technologies and improved European competitiveness through established research-industry collaborations, information sharing and expert group work.
• Synergies and research results efficiently shared along the whole value chain, thus mobilizing R&I efforts.
• Attracted talent and competences necessary to achieve the technical goals and to support European industry.
• Provided scientific evidence for policymakers.
• Increase and reinforce international collaboration within the geographical scope outlined above..

Scope:

Proposals are expected to:

• Develop, consolidate and communicate a strategic research approach for all stakeholders throughout the entire European Battery Value Chain.
• Develop and/or update coherent Strategic Research and Innovation agenda (SRIA) and corresponding detailed roadmaps covering all aspects of the battery value chain through expert group work.
• Facilitate and support work of experts from a different field in a cross-collaboration manner, identify the challenges and opportunities and so create guidelines and recommendations on how best to develop synergies.
• Establish and continuously update Key performance indicator (KPI’s) values for current state-of-art battery technology, as collected from stakeholders across the battery value chain correlated and communicated via SET Plan progress monitoring.
• Establish Target Key performance indicators (Target KPI’s) values for future battery R&I as collected from all relevant forums, correlated and communicated via SET Plan progress monitoring and the Strategic Research and Innovation agenda (SRIA) to the entire R&I community in general.
• Implement and foster the adoption of uniform standards and methodologies for the reporting of battery research developments across EU and national projects building on existing European and national work/efforts.
• Execute a clear communication plan describing the hosting and updating website, organising events and facilitating networking. Communicate results and progress in Battery R&I on both a European and International level.
• Cooperate with ETIPs and similar stakeholders fora, provide support to existing SET Plan Implementation Plans and advancement towards more interconnected activities, both in terms of contents and implementation mechanisms (see topic HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-17)
• Promote and facilitate international collaborative actions, where necessary.
• Perform additional activities which are relevant to reach the expected outcomes.
• In order to ensure high quality coordination and technical outputs from the proposals should possess both technical and operative expertise.

The overarching European R&I platform should build on previous efforts and continue to foster pan-European active cooperation and maintain up-to-date clear realistic strategic research and innovation agenda for Europe.

The project’s main governance (e.g. Steering Group, Advisory Board) is expected to provide for direct involvement of European Commission services for collaboration on relevant policy activities, incl. further supporting SET plan.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on ‘Towards a competitive European industrial battery value chain for stationary applications and e-mobility’.