Welcome to day 2 and 3 of our annual FME BATTERY Academy at IFE, Kjeller. This year, FME BATTERY and the EU Project SALAMANDER is teaming up, giving you an extended program over two days. 

To accommodate different levels of experience, the academy will include two parallel tracks: (A) an track for participants new to battery technologies, and (B) a more advanced track with in-depth technical sessions for early-career researchers and industry participants. As part of the programme, the SALAMANDER Project will contribute dedicated sessions on self-healing battery materials, sensing technologies, and future battery monitoring concepts.

You are welcome to join any workshop that seems interesting to you, and do not need to follow a specific track. 

Greenectra workshop

Why Battery Projects Fail: 7 Hidden Decisions That Drive Safety, Performance, and Circular Value

A 3-hour technical workshop for cross-functional battery professionals. Battery failures are not random - they’re the delayed result of early decisions in chemistry, manufacturing, testing, operating strategy, and design. This session exposes seven critical decision points that shape every project’s trajectory, showing where upstream choices cascade into safety risks, performance loss, or lost circular value. Participants leave with a clear map of their team’s exposure and the specific technical capabilities needed to make better decisions earlier.

Relevant for: Industry professionals working on f.ex. upscaling, small businesses improving a product, professors working on future battery material investigation and anyone interested in improving their success rates

Lab course in IFE Battery Labs

In this three hour workshop you will get a practical introduction to how we work in an R&D environment when testing new battery materials, and assessing their performance in coin and pouch cells. Three stations will take you through the steps of making a slurry, building a coin cell and how to upscale to pouch cells. 

- Slurry mixing of a powder based electrode, either graphite or silicon

- Coin cell building inside and outside the glovebox

- Lab tour of NABLA Pilot Line, see the semi-automatic coating and assembly line


Relevant for: anyone interested in seeing what happens in the lab, students, those new in the field, lab-enthusiasts

Modelling workshop

In this three-stage workshop you will get an introduction in different tools available when analyzing battery data, modelling materials or entropy. 

- Analyzing battery data from Arbin or Neware testers using open-source code Cellpy

- Modelling entropy in a battery

- Software for battery modelling using BattMo

Self-healing lectures by SALAMANDER

Here you will hear from participants in the SALAMANDER Project and learn more about sensors and self-healing. The lectures will give you an introduction into what is meant by "self-healing", how it can be studied and what problems the SALAMANDER team is trying to solve.