INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in collaboration with ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação hosted yesterday, May 4th, the Horizon Europe BATT4EU Funding Opportunities event and it was focused on presenting the BATT4EU partnership and funding opportunities in Horizon Europe for energy storage solutions.

Counting on a multidisciplinary group of experts sharing ground-breaking viewpoints, this event took us to central topics that sparked insightful discussions and laid considerable foundations to boost a competitive, sustainable and circular European battery value chain. It was possible to discuss the battery ecosystem and challenges in Europe, the current state of the art in Portugal, the future battery technologies for Europe, and the priorities for EU funding in energy storage research, development, and deployment.

For Pedro Salomé, Clean Energy Cluster Coordinator, at INL, this event “showcases INL’s capability to mobilize several stakeholders, industry, academia, and research and technology organizations, at the national, Iberian and European area to come together understanding synergies and opportunities to collaborate and to push the frontiers of technology.” 

The participation of the major European associations in the battery sector, European Battery Alliance (eba250) and the Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA), including a representative from the European Commission, together with the Centro Ibérico de Investigación en Almacenamiento Energético, an Iberian newly created centre dedicated to energy storage, provided the event with an Iberian and European perspective that allowed the participants to understand the latest technological, economical and legislative developments in the battery and energy storage areas. It was the beginning of a promising journey of further discussions and potential collaborations.

This was an excellent opportunity to learn, and network, and counted on the participation of Ana Fontoura Gouveia – Portuguese Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação, Philippe Jacques – Secretary General, BEPA, Thore Sekkenes, EBA250 Programme Director, EIT InnoEnergy, Batpower Battery Cluster Portugal, Iberian Energy Storage Research Center, CENTI, Galp, Instituto Superior Técnico, Voltalia, Self Energy, Simoldes Plásticos, DST group, Vasco da Gama CoLAB Energy Storage, INESC TEC, ALMASCIENCE, University of Minho, Cleanwatts, EDP Inovação, LNEG, and University of Porto.

At the same time, spintronics is an emerging technology which has been used in key functionalities associated with wireless sensor networks. By harnessing the spin of an electron, spintronic devices have already shown potential as sensors, energy harvesters, and radiofrequency sources.

In the SWAN-on-chip project, several ‘spin-chips’ will be designed to validate the Spintronics Wireless Autonomous Node concept, by integrating spintronic devices with conventional tailored integrated circuits. As well as benchmarking the individual spin-chips, the SWAN-on-chip project aims to create a European-level ‘spintronics technology accelerator’ by bringing together actors from theory, materials, nanofabrication, electrical engineering and industry, with the goal of advancing spintronic technologies to the market.

You can follow the updates of this project on the website: https://www.swanonchip.eu/

The Minister of Agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes, together with Secretary of State for Fisheries, Teresa Coelho, within the scope of ‘Governo +Próximo’ with the aim to connect the scientific research performed here to the current and future challenges in the field of agriculture and fisheries.

This visit aims to give visibility to entities that stand out in their contribution to the country’s economic growth in emerging areas of development, as well as, through the contribution of companies and centres of research for the growth of the blue economy.

The Minister underlined that “this is a cutting edge laboratory and that the technologies developed at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory are truly unique and disruptive and can be applied to the agriculture and fisheries areas. Nanotechnology has enormous potential to provide innovative improvements to reduce costs, increase efficiency and reduce our impact on the environment, as a necessity impacting our ability to feed our inhabitants.”

This initiative was organized within a decentralized Ministers’ Council that will happen tomorrow – May 4th, in Braga. The Minister and the Secretary of State together with Altino Bessa – Councilor of Braga City Council, Nuno Canada – President of INIAV, Rogério Ferreira – Director General of DGADR, and President AG PEPAContinente, and José Matias – Deputy Regional Director of DRAP Norte had the opportunity to contact with INL researchers from scientific areas and learn more about our projects and unique technologies.

The Minister of Agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes, together with Secretary of State for Fisheries, Teresa Coelho, within the scope of ‘Governo +Próximo’ with the aim to connect the scientific research performed here to the current and future challenges in the field of agriculture and fisheries.

This visit aims to give visibility to entities that stand out in their contribution to the country’s economic growth in emerging areas of development, as well as, through the contribution of companies and centres of research for the growth of the blue economy.

The Minister underlined that “this is a cutting edge laboratory and that the technologies developed at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory are truly unique and disruptive and can be applied to the agriculture and fisheries areas. Nanotechnology has enormous potential to provide innovative improvements to reduce costs, increase efficiency and reduce our impact on the environment, as a necessity impacting our ability to feed our inhabitants.”

This initiative was organized within a decentralized Ministers’ Council that will happen tomorrow – May 4th, in Braga. The Minister and the Secretary of State together with Altino Bessa – Councilor of Braga City Council, Nuno Canada – President of INIAV, Rogério Ferreira – Director General of DGADR, and President AG PEPAContinente, and José Matias – Deputy Regional Director of DRAP Norte had the opportunity to contact with INL researchers from scientific areas and learn more about our projects and unique technologies.