ABOUT DESTINY

Supported and co-funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND PhD Programme (Grant Agreement #945357) and 44 other partners, DESTINY is a Doctorate Programme that creates a paradigm change in battery research, in line with the new European context, especially Battery 2030+,a large-scale and long-term European research initiative. He envisions to invent the sustainable batteries of the future, provide European industry with disruptive technologies and a competitive edge throughout the battery value chain. The 5-year project trains 50 PhDs by focusing on 3 main challenges:


1) Reinvent battery materials discovery and engineering.

2) Develop smart batteries and functionalities

3) Implement new technologies in industry.


All of this benefits from the combined excellence of the big DESTINY European consortium.

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. Interdisciplinary competences and skills are favoured within DESTINY, enabling the PhD students to adopt and excel in:

  • Modelling and Artificial Intelligence for Accelerated Materials Discovery
  • Advanced (electrochemical)
  • Analysis Techniques (diffraction, spectroscopy) including operando characterization, battery monitoring, smart battery functionalities, crystal chemistry, safety, technology transfer and prototyping.

Develop Smart Batteries and Functionalities

Train future Leaders

Train at the highest level, 50 young high-level researchers from all over the world, aiming to become future leaders in the battery field

Implement New Technologies in industry

Li-Sulfur and Metal-Air batteries, Aqueous Batteries, Sensors for Energy Storage, Supercapacitors, Organic Batteries, Solid State Batteries, M-Ion Batteries (Li, Na, K, Mg, ...).

Open your Perspectives

In Mobility and Automotive Industry, in Internet of Things, in Manufacturing and Recycling, in Safety and Transportation, in Grids Applications of Energy Storage, in Advanced Research, in Career Development, in Intellectual Property and Regulations, in Research Management.

Develop Strong Expertise

In high troughput Synthesis, in Advanced Spectroscopies, in Crystal Chemistry and Microscopy, in Multiscale Modeling and Artificial Intelligence, in Operando Techniques of Characterization, in Reverse Engineering, in Smart Functionalities, in Sensing for Battery Monitoring, in Demonstrators and Prototyping.

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