This opportunity funds innovative manufacturing processes and machinery for lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery cells. Projects should demonstrate flexible, modular pilot production lines, novel electrode manufacturing, optimized dry-room assembly, rapid cell formation, and digital quality control. Proposals must include techno-economic and life-cycle analyses to prove environmental and economic benefits over current methods, aligning with Safe and Sustainable by Design principles.
Eligible applicants must comply with admissibility conditions including proposal page limits and layouts, and be from eligible countries as described in the Horizon Europe Work Programme. Entities controlled by China are excluded. Participants must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data if satelli