The EU-backed Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) and European Battery Alliance Academy (EBAA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a strategic partnership to provide additional skills to the current mobility and battery industry to meet sector demands.
This collaboration will create a single pan-European framework to enable upskilling and reskilling for the automotive labour force across the entire mobility sector and battery value chain, a statement said. The battery supply chain alone will require four million jobs by 2025 as the energy transition accelerates.
BEST reported previously that 800,000 workers will need to be trained. We also reported how plugging the skills gap is also about work culture and work-life balance.
EU-financed Gigagreen project holds first meeting
The European Union-financed Gigagreen project has held its first meeting in Turin, Italy with workshops on design and manufacturing.
The four-year €4.7 million project, formed by partners from eight European countries, will work to achieve the sustainable Gigafactory of the future, it said. This will position Europe “at the forefront” of the global market in the lithium battery value chain.
Gigagreen will focus on cell–electrodes processing and components that represent the highest energy and economic costs.
It added that the EU industry will be able to quickly use the results regarding water-based processing after 2026.
That will start paving the way towards dry electrode processing techniques as “the next Li–ion manufacturing technology revolution”.
Gigagreen said it will seek electrode manufacturing processes which deliver the maximum performance, throughput rate, safety and cost efficiency, with the lowest environmental impact and energy consumption in the cell design.
Led by Politecnico di Torino, Gigagreen comprises Sustainable Innovations, ABEE, Solvionic, Leclanche, Nanomakers, Parma University, Politechnical University of Valencia, Sintef, Inegi, Cic Energigune, Arlanxeo, Alphanov, Manz Italy and CETIM.
Photo: Gigagreen held its first meeting in Turin
