ProjectDESTINY
Training future leaders in frontier battery tech
Doctorate Programme on Emerging Battery Storage Technologies Inspiring Young Scientists (DESTINY)
To establish a competitive and world-leading battery value chain in Europe, the European Battery Alliance was launched in 2017. The academic and industry partners involved in the COFUND project DESTINY contribute to this initiative through their advanced PhD training at the forefront of EU battery research.
Project impact
Batteries are crucial technologies for the energy transition: they are the most expensive component of an electric vehicle, and they are important to stabilise a grid powered by solar panels and windmills. Yet so many questions are still being challenged: how can we reduce the amount of critical raw materials in a battery? How can we improve their performance and their safety? How can we best optimise their manufacturing process and how should they be recycled? Over the past five years, the DESTINY project has been training 50 PhD candidates in frontier battery innovation. This includes rethinking how we discover and engineer battery materials, developing new uses for smart batteries, and working out how to best apply them in industry. The training doesn’t stop at technology. The PhD candidates also learn about personal effectiveness, research management and entrepreneurship. The project’s goals fit with the European Union’s strategic efforts to strengthen Europe’s battery sector, as reflected in initiatives such as the European Battery Alliance. The innovations developed by this next generation of battery researchers and engineers will help to reduce the production costs of Europe’s battery industry and create new job opportunities.
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Coordinator
France
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS
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Participating and partners countries
- Denmark
- Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
- France
- Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne
- Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux
- Université de Bordeaux
- Bordeaux INP
- Université de Montpellier
- Université de Nantes
- Collège de France
- Université de Pau Pays de l’Adour
- Université Paul Sabatier
- Germany
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Poland
- Politechnika Warszawska
- Slovenia
- Nacionalni Inštitut za Kemijo
- Spain
- CIC energiGUNE
- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
- United Kingdom
- University of Bath
- Austria
- Technische Universität Graz
- Belgium
- Solvay
- Umicore
- France
- Alistore European Research Institute
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
- Institut Laue-Langevin
- Réseau pour le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie
- Synchrotron Soleil
- Région Pays de la Loire
- Renault
- Saft
- Tiamat
- Germany
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- BASF
- FCT Systems
- Italy
- Sincrotrone Elettra
- Netherlands
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Universiteit Twente
- Poland
- PKN Orlen
- Spain
- Cidetec
- Sweden
- Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
- Uppsala Universitet
- United Kingdom
- University of Cambridge
- University of Lancaster
- University of Oxford
- University of Saint Andrews
- Denmark