About BASE
Batteries Sweden, BASE is the Swedish academia-industry competence center that focus on excellent research to support long-term battery research, innovation, and production in Sweden by fostering new ideas and by educating a new generation of battery specialists for creating the batteries of the future.
BASE 1.0 started 2020 and after five years BASE 2.0, during the period 2025-2029 continues to build the Swedish competence in new and sustainable battery technology. BASE is co-funded by Vinnova and the academic -and industrial partners.
The Strategies and goals for BASE:
- An innovation center of excellence: industry and academia
- Development of ultrahigh performance batteries: cover the entire battery value chain
- Research environmentally friendly production: environmental aspects in all projects
- Science-based analysis and characterization methods: in all projects
- Information and competence: communicate activities and scientific results
- Inspiring research atmosphere for young scientists:
promote academic and industrial collaboration - Courses with the latest findings in battery technology: invite lecturers and encourage partners to suggest courses
- Participate in the international battery research arena: highlight activities in the European battery community
- Promote opportunities in Sweden: attract young scientists through our research and international collaboration
BASE incorporates competences of the highest quality along the whole battery value chain, from experimental research to modeling expertise, to advance research with a strong connection to real world problems.
The center revolve around activities and twelve projects in three thematic areas: Methods, Materials and Cells as well as cross-cutting activities such as sustainability, diversity and inclusion.
