Kick-off meeting of H2020 project SPIDER in Grenoble (France).

The  kick-off meeting (KOM) was held on 12 – 13 February, 2019 at CEA Liten in Grenoble. The meeting was attended by the 14 partners including leading universities and research institutes in the battery field and key companies central to the emerging European industrial value chain for EV batteries.

SPIDER, with project number 814389, is funded under the  topic LC-NMBP-30-2018 – “Materials for future highly performant electrified vehicle batteries” of European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

During the meeting all issues related to the 8 complementary Workpackages of the SPIDER project were presented and discussed.

The participants mostly focused on the technologies to be used, specifications of materials and methods, requirements of end users for the implementation of the project results.

The partners were engaged in technical discussions during the two days and were committed in the project tasks, as foreseen in the Grant Agreement.