GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should cover at least two of three scope categories (business models, cross-industry tools, sustainable design) and at least three bullet points in total:

Business models

• Definition of assessment approaches for sustainable business models, including value proposition, value creation and delivery and value capture including environmental, social and economic dimensions. This activity will include analysis of best practice examples for sustainable business models.
• Development of sustainable business methods for technical, economic, and environmental evaluation of cycle life options: retrofit, second life, and recycling.
• Development of new business models and social innovations that promote the sustainable mobilisation of resources.
• Development of business methods to address outstanding issues, such as on-liability, across applications.

Cross-industry tools

• Quantitative methodologies and tools that enable understanding whether recycling or second life is the preferred sustainable option, and at which level (pack, cell, electrode, material) recycling should be deployed.
• Optimisation of design and operation using LCA. Using high-quality data, exploring trade-offs between
  • impacts at fabrication stage,
  • design for durability,
  • energy usage,
  • other functional aspects such as optimal sizing, hybridisation, electronic management, thermal management.
• Development of a central data information system and database (users of resources can see who offers which type and amount of battery system) and prototype Europe-wide information system for accident vehicles and their available battery systems for re-use.

Sustainable design

• Innovations in battery design and architecture at all levels (system, pack, cell) supporting dismantling and recycling at the end of life. These could include the choice of materials and assembly methods and should not compromise the performance.
• Design of innovative sourced materials for improving sustainability in batteries by sustainable processes that avoid toxic/dangerous solvents and require controlled environments.
• Research and design of batteries from recycled materials and fully recyclable.