The Science and Technology Liaison officers of Wallonia-Brussels International in Canada, Germany and for the Nordic countries, in close collaboration with the SPW-Recherche, the FNRS, the Mecatech cluster, the Québec Ministry of Economy and Innovation, PRIMA Quebec, and with the support of the Bavarian Research Alliance, had the pleasure to organise an international R-D matchmaking event on battery materials on 28 April.
Related to the 2021 M-ERA.NET call for proposals, this virtual activity focused on materials for future batteries to support the development of a circular economy and the achievement of sustainable development goals.
The main highlights are:
- 105 participants from Quebec, Wallonia-Brussels, Bavaria, Sweden, Finland and Norway
- 15 high-quality pitches from Academia & industrial partners
- Dozens of B2B meetings and discussions of project proposals
Review
If you missed it, you can review the M-ERA.NET 2021 call presentation as well as the pitches here:
Presentations
The presentations are available here:
- Roland Brandenburg - M-ERA.NET 2021 call
- Nathalie Job - University of Liege - Belgium
- Zhibin Ye - Concordia University - Canada
- Samson Lai - Institute for Energy Technology - Norway
- Dominic Rochefort - Université de Montréal - Canada
- Reza Younezi - Uppsala University - Sweden
- Shuhui Sun - INRS - Canada
- Lionel Fourdrinier - CRM Group - Belgium
- Simon Clark - Sintef - Norway
- Karl-Heinz Pettinger - Landshut University of Applied Sciences - Germany
- Simon Blackburn - MILA - Canada
- Marja Vilkman - VTT - Finland
- Jean-Luc Cialdini - Nouveau Monde Graphite - Canada
- David Waroquiers and Gian-Marco Rignanese - Matgenix and UCLouvain - Belgium
- Guinevere Giffin - Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung ISC - Germany
- Abdelfattah Mahmoud - University of Liege - Belgium
Additional information
For any additional information or support, feel free to join:
- Adrien Sellez, ALS WBI pour le Canada : a.sellez[@]wbi.be
- Mathieu Quintyn, ALS WBI pour l'Allemagne : m.quintyn[@]wbi.be
- Henri Sprimont, ALS WBI pour les pays nordiques : h.sprimont[@]wbi.be