The development of the battery industry is a priority for EU policy as it was presented in COM and in Implementation of the Strategic Action Plan on Batteries: Building a Strategic Battery Value Chain in Europe COM/2019/176 final, and BATTERY 2030+ roadmap. The EU budget is already providing important funding opportunities to support research and innovation in batteries. The EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for 2014-2020, Horizon 2020, has granted EUR 1.34 billion to projects for energy storage on the grid and for low-carbon mobility. In 2019, Horizon 2020 added a call to fund, under the European Battery Alliance, battery projects worth EUR 114 million. This will be followed by a call in 2020 amounting to EUR 132 million, covering batteries for transport and energy (Tsiropoulos et al. 2018). Moreover, in December 2019 the European Commission approved