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 to different digital tools for analyzing battery data, estimating electrochemical model parameters, and implementing the estimated parameters to simulate the thermal behavior of battery.

• Analyzing battery data from Arbin or Neware testers using open-source code CellPy (Jan Petter Mæhlen, IFE)
• Estimating entropy coefficient based on analyzed data using an open-source toolbox developed with the FME Battery, dSTool (Svenas Burba, UiA)
• Thermal modeling of battery using estimated data via BattMo (Lorean Hendrix, SINTEF).

No prior knowledge in modeling is required, a little knowledge on the basis of battery operation will be a bonus but not a requirement. This workshop aims to aid the battery community in design and optimization of experiments using the available digital tools, with the focus on understanding heat distribution during battery operations.
All the simulation and estimation will be done in python, and the needed packages will be installed during the beginning of the workshop.

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. 

SALAMANDER is funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe (Grant Agreement No. 101104028) and Horizon 2020 (BATTERY 2030+ CSA3, Grant Agreement No. 101104022). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA.