On 8 April 2026, VERSAPRINT took an active role in the EU‑INGENIOuS Battery Cluster’s latest event, an interactive roadmap workshop led by our sister project NEXTBAT, dedicated to co-creating the future priorities of the European battery sector.
The “Battery Sector Roadmap Workshop” brought together technical partners from all five cluster projects to think collectively about where the battery sector is headed — and where coordinated European research can make the biggest difference.
VERSAPRINT’s perspective was brought to the table — contributing insights on the technological trends, manufacturing challenges, and innovation priorities most relevant to our work on printed battery systems and their path to industrial scale-up.
The workshop was structured around a shared roadmap canvas — a hands-on collaborative framework that moved participants through three interconnected steps: identifying trends shaping the next 5–10 years, surfacing bottlenecks and gaps slowing down progress, and defining the breakthroughs needed to unlock Europe’s battery innovation potential.
Workshop objectives:
- Identify key trends shaping the battery sector today and in the years ahead
- Highlight major bottlenecks, risks, and systemic challenges that may slow progress
- Define future research and innovation priorities across the cluster
- Strengthen collaboration and clustering activities across all projects
Discussions were organised around six thematic domains, each addressing a critical dimension of the battery value chain. VERSAPRINT’s manufacturing and scale-up expertise, particularly in the domain of printed electrode technologies, was especially relevant to several of these areas:
-Materials & Chemistries
-Design & Performance
-Manufacturing & Scale-up
-Circularity & Sustainability
-Digitalisation & Data
-Applications & Markets
Within these domains, participants explored both short-term and longer-term horizons. Key themes that resonated with VERSAPRINT’s work included the optimisation of Li-ion systems, the emergence of new chemistries such as Na-ion, the dependency on critical raw materials, and the persistent challenge of bridging the gap between laboratory results and industrial-scale manufacturing. These are precisely the areas where VERSAPRINT’s printed battery approach offers a meaningful path forward.
The workshop also included a prioritisation exercise, where participants voted on which innovations and collaborative areas carry the highest impact — both in the near term and over the longer horizon — and where EU-level coordination is most needed. This structured process will feed directly into a shared battery sector roadmap, a strategic reference document that will guide the cluster’s collective direction and inform future research agendas.
The five cluster projects — BATSS, NEXTBAT, VERSAPRINT, TEMPEST, and EXTENDED — each bring distinct and complementary expertise. This diversity is one of the cluster’s greatest strengths, enabling the kind of cross-project dialogue that no single project could achieve alone.
The outputs of this workshop, including the roadmap itself, will be shared through NEXTBAT’s channels and those of the sister projects in the coming weeks. VERSAPRINT will continue to engage actively within the EU‑INGENIOuS cluster, contributing our expertise and staying close to the evolving priorities of Europe’s battery ecosystem.
Stay tuned to our channels for further updates from the cluster, and follow our progress as we advance VERSAPRINT’s mission of making printed batteries a reality at industrial scale.