GIGABAT partners gather for the M36 General Assembly to prepare the final stretch towards project completion
With the project entering its final six months, partners came together to consolidate achievements, accelerate exploitation, and shape the future of Europe's battery manufacturing ecosystem.
With just six months remaining until the end of the project, the GIGABAT consortium met on 23–24 June 2026 at Matthews Engineering in Vreden, Germany, for the 36-Month General Assembly, marking a key milestone in the project’s journey towards delivering a more sustainable and digitalised European battery manufacturing ecosystem. The two-day meeting brought together project partners to review progress, align final activities and maximise the impact of the project’s results.
The first day focused on the technical and managerial progress achieved across all work packages. Consortium partners presented the latest developments, discussed remaining challenges and bottlenecks, reviewed upcoming deliverables and milestones, and coordinated the activities to be completed during the final six months of the project. Sessions also covered project management, dissemination, communication and exploitation, ensuring a coordinated approach towards the project’s successful conclusion. A visit to Matthews Engineering’s facilities provided participants with first-hand insight into industrial manufacturing solutions developed within the European battery sector.
The second day looked beyond the project’s lifetime through the workshop “Make Electrode Great Again – From GIGABAT Results to Impact and Future Pathways for European Battery Manufacturing.” Partners discussed the project’s Key Exploitable Results (KERs) and explored future research and innovation priorities for strengthening Europe’s battery value chain. Interactive working sessions addressed strategic topics including European supply chains, sustainable electrode production, materials and recycling, and market perspectives, fostering collaboration and identifying opportunities for future exploitation and industrial uptake. ICONS also held an internal workshop that aimed at conducting the final validation of the project’s KERs in terms of their definition, ownership, and Intellectual Property Rights, in preparation for the final exploitation phase and to define the strategies for upscaling and commercialising the project’s results.
As GIGABAT enters its final phase, the consortium remains focused on completing the remaining technical activities, validating the project’s innovations and ensuring that its results contribute to building a competitive, sustainable and resilient European battery manufacturing industry.
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