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Recently, BayBatt member Prof. Dr. Matteo Bianchini (Chair of Inorganic Active Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage) was elected co-director of ALISTORE.

Founded more that 2 decades ago as a European research Institute (ERI), ALISTORE’s mission is to enable battery-related collaborative research in Europe, as well as to fund and train MsC and PhD students for the scientific and technological challenges of next-generation batteries, in close interaction with academia and industry.

ALISTORE ERI was created in 2004, in the framework of a 5-year EU funded FP6 Network of Excellence and currently federates 19 institutions performing cross-cutting high level research in the field of batteries and battery materials. It was initiated by Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon (France), who brought together world class European laboratories in the field to perform battery-                                             related collaborative research on the topic for the first time.

Since early 2009, ALISTORE ERI is a federative research structure, funded through academic member contributions and the membership fees of its associated Industrial Club. Such funds allow developing hand in hand, integrated and collaborative research, oriented towards medium-term transfer to industry. This long-term collaboration has promoted the sharing of ideas and resources among a diverse set of academic and industrial partners, generating significant added value. ALISTORE-ERI academics meet twice a year with members of the Industrial Club to present most recent discoveries and latest achievements, discuss perspective trends, and initiate collaborative European projects. Since the end of 2025, the network has been co-directed by Lorenzo Stievano (France), Montserrat Casas-Cabanas (Spain) and Matteo Bianchini (Germany). 

Besides, ALISTORE-ERI also supports education in battery research at the master and PhD Levels. Supported and co-funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND PhD Programme and 44 other partners, DESTINY is a doctorate programme that aims to create a paradigm change in battery research.                                                                                     The 5-year projecttrains 50 PhD students focusing on 3 main challenges:

• Reinvent battery materials discovery and engineering.
• Develop smart batteries and functionalities
• Implement new technologies in industry.

All candidates are trained at the very forefront of battery research, enabling them to accelerate and exploit novel technologies from a solid basis of knowledge and skills. Within DESTINY 2, Prof. Bianchini will be hosting 3 PhD positions includig one on the topic of "Experimental investigation of thermodynamics and kinetics during the synthesis of advanced cathode materials". The project will be conducted in collaboration with Umicore in Olen, Belgium.