EIT RawMaterials Expert Forum
The theme of this Expert Forum is “Materials for battery innovation”, which will spotlight the vital role that materials play in driving innovation in the field of batteries. Recognizing the increasing importance of energy storage for various applications, stakeholders from the EIT RawMaterials network will gather to discuss cutting-edge materials research, manufacturing techniques, and sourcing principles that can enhance battery performance, safety, and sustainability. This forum will provide a platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange to accelerate the development of advanced battery technologies and skillsets.
The EIT RawMaterials Expert Forum Series is Europe’s leading raw materials innovation and education exchange that connects stakeholders and actors from various parts of different raw materials value chains. This highly collaborative environment culminates in producing radically new ways of addressing raw materials sustainability across the supply chains. Tailor made for innovative professionals and industry leaders.
Structure
The Expert Forum is where participants, throughout Europe, exchange ideas and opinions about innovations and technologies in the industry and how they can work together with relevant actors to co-create solutions that works for their business. This year, the Expert Forum Series will include three forums across Europe, each focusing on a specific thematic scope enabling in-depth discussions on some of the most pressing challenges in the raw materials sector addressing topics ranging from the future of solar and hydrogen technologies to the role of education in advancing this transition and much more.
The Expert Forum Series is structured around three strategic frameworks or ‘Lighthouses‘: Responsible Sourcing, Sustainable Materials, and Circular Societies. Each will focus on specific parts of key industrial value chains, i.e., Photovoltaic and Hydrogen Materials, Battery Innovation, and Responsible Sourcing. The purpose of the ‘Lighthouses’, especially when linked together, is to provide the partners of the EIT RawMaterials Innovation Community a clear framework for the debate and – potentially – project design to receive funding via EIT RawMaterials.