Success for the R-D matchmaking webinar on battery material!

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