SPRINT - Horizon Europe

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 📢 We are thrilled to share our first press release, announcing the launch of our project SPRINT - Horizon Europe! 🔋Our goal is to revolutionize stationary energy storage with cost-effective and sustainable quasi-solid state sodium-ion batteries. ⚡ 📄Discover all the key information on our project and its objectives by reading the full press release attached. 🌟 Stay tuned for more updates and make sure to follow us for the latest news! #Batteries #Innovation #Sustainability #EnergyStorage #HorizonEurope #ProjectLaunch Institute for Energy Technology - Daikin Chemical Europe GmbH - Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes Europeénnes - Saint-Gobain - WAI Environmental Solutions AS -  CyberGrid - SoliTek - Comau - MANN+HUMMEL - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer IWKS - Fraunhofer IWS - TNO -  Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - University of Oulu - Forschungszentrum Jülich - Euroquality - Tinexta Group - Novocycle Technologies - AVESTA - PSI Paul Scherrer Institut

🌍⚡ Introducing the SPRINT - Horizon Europe project! ⚡🌍 🔋 As the EU accelerates its transition to climate neutrality, the demand for sustainable and efficient stationary energy storage is rising. While lithium-ion batteries dominate the market, challenges such as critical raw material dependencies, cost volatility, safety risks, and environmental impact highlight the need for alternative solutions. Sodium-ion batteries offer a promising path, but improvements in energy density, cycle life, and large-scale manufacturability are crucial for their competitiveness. 🚀 SPRINT - Horizon Europe is tackling these challenges with cutting-edge innovations in electrode design and scalable manufacturing, leveraging safe, abundant, and cost-effective materials. By optimising quasi-solid-state polymer composite electrolytes, ensuring rapid upscaling, and demonstrating two high-performance batteries, SRPINT aims to revolutionise the sector—boosting sustainability, safety, and cost-efficiency. 📅 On January 29-30, the SPRINT Kick Off meeting was hosted by Institute for Energy Technology, the project coordinator, at its facilities in Lillestrøm, Norway. 🙌 We are proud to have contributed to SPRINT’s funding and to support its implementation. Huge thanks to our dedicated consultants Pierre and Mathilde for driving this effort! 🔗 Follow SPRINT - Horizon Europe on LinkedIn to stay updated on our journey toward a more sustainable energy future! 🌱🔋 #EnergyStorage #Sustainability #SodiumIonBatteries #BatteryInnovation #ClimateTransition

🌟 SPRINT - Horizon Europe: A Memorable Lab Tour at Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)🌟 😊 During our recent project kick-off meeting, hosted by our project coordinators IFE, we had the opportunity to take part in an insightful lab tour led by their dedicated team. 🔋We delved into the fascinating world of battery manufacturing. Their expertise and passion were evident as they walked us through their innovative processes, showcasing the cutting-edge technology and meticulous craftsmanship that go into creating high-performance batteries. ⚡🔧 🙏 A big thank you to the IFE team for their warm welcome and for sharing their invaluable knowledge with us. This experience has truly set the tone for an exciting and productive collaboration ahead! 🚀🤝 #ProjectSPRINT #Innovation #BatteryTechnology #Collaboration #IFE #HorizonEurope

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Horizon Europe #SPRINT project, aimed at revolutionizing stationary energy storage with cost-effective and sustainable sodium-ion batteries! 🌍🔋 💡 Over the next 46 months, a consortium of 8 industries, 2 SMEs, and 8 academic partners will work together to optimize and demonstrate two safe, quasi-solid-state sodium-ion batteries for stationary applications. These innovative batteries will utilize abundant, non-toxic materials from EU supply chains, including NaFePO4 cathode, hard-carbon materials, and quasi-solid polymer electrolytes. 🌱 ✨ Key highlights of the SPRINT project: ✨ - Development of cost-effective and sustainable sodium-ion batteries 🪫 - Use of innovative and non-toxic materials - Scaling up dry electrode processing for enhanced sustainability🌿 - Demonstrations in Austria and Lithuania, with additional studies in Africa, India, and more 🌍 - Aiming to reduce costs, improve energy density and power metrics, extend battery life, and ensure safe operation ⚡ 📸 We just had our Kick-off Meeting on January 29-30, 2025, organized by the project coordinators Institute for Energy Technology in Lillestrom, Norway. The discussions were fruitful, and we are all enthusiastic about the promising journey ahead! 🌟 👉 Follow our LinkedIn page for more updates and join us on this exciting journey! 👈 This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation programme under Grant Agreement n°101191903. #EnergyStorage #SodiumIonBatteries #Sustainability #Innovation #HorizonEurope #SPRINTProject Institute for Energy Technology - Daikin Chemical Europe GmbH - Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes Europeénnes - Saint-Gobain - WAI Environmental Solutions AS -  CyberGrid - SoliTek - Comau - MANN+HUMMEL - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer IWKS - Fraunhofer IWS - TNO -  Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - University of Oulu - Forschungszentrum Jülich - Euroquality - Tinexta Group - Novocycle Technologies - AVESTA - PSI Paul Scherrer Institut