The European project BATMASS has just started with the aim of implementing the first Circular Battery Valley in the EU. It is a European project to research and innovate new models of EU interregional collaboration and offers a portfolio of interregional investments in TRL6+ innovations in circular technologies and processes for battery materials.
CTA (Technological Corporation of Andalusia), Envirobat Spain, Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster (ISMC) and Lomartov are the Spanish members that are part of this European consortium that, for 30 months, will work towards the development of a completely comprehensive interregional ecosystem around 4 demonstrators (or “pilot plants”) aimed at scaling up, commercializing and deploying innovative green technologies.
BATMASS (EU circular BATtery valley for second life, recycling, and re-manufacturing of materials and black MASS) aims to harness the innovation power of RTOs and SMEs to accelerate market entry and international replication in EU regions and beyond. The project will ensure an integrated approach to the framework conditions for market entry.
Likewise, technology transfers between less developed, transition and developed regions are expected to structure this emerging value chain and anchor it in regional innovation ecosystems.
15 European entities
BATMASS has received funding from the Europe Interregional Innovation Investment (I3) program and integrates 15 European entities from Italy, France, Slovenia and Spain. The following entities participate in the BATMASS consortium:
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy) – project coordinator
- Orano Mining (France)
- Technological Corporation of Andalusia (Spain)
- Lomartov SL (Spain)
- ERP Italia Servizi (Italy)
- Kemijski Institut (Slovenia)
- Nanofaber SRL (Italy)
- Verkor (France)
- Associazione Fabrica Intelligente Lombardia (Italy)
- Università Degli Studi di Pavia (Italy)
- Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster (Spain)
- Envirobat España SL (Spain)
- Competitivite Team2 Pole Association (France)
- Green Vision (France)
- N-Able (France)
