ABOUT DESTINY

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

Provide a unique and prime opportunity to young scientists to become part of a very strong community and academic-industry network, with the triple I approach (International, Intersectorial and Interdisciplinary)

Contribute to the development of breakthrough technologies for science, industry and society

Develop a high quality training, integrated and sustainable, at the European level

Consolidate collaborations between academia and industry and generate innovation

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 European 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. The vision is inventing the sustainable batteries of the future, providing European industry with disruptive technologies and a competitive edge throughout the battery value chain. The 5-year project trains 50 PhDs by focusing on three main challenges:


1) Reinvent battery materials discovery and engineering.

2)    Develop smart batteries and functionalities

3)    Implement new technologies in industry.


All of these benefit from the combined excellence of the big DESTINY European consortium. The project is aiming at delivering a competitive edge to European Industry and Academy within the rapidly emerging green technology areas of Electro-mobility and Large-scale energy storage.


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.


In addition, DESTINY includes a broad set of training in transferable skills.

A. Scientific & Technical Knowledge and Skills

  • A1. Design of Materials and Interfaces

    Training to understand how the synthesis of novel materials and matching these determine the cell and battery perfomance and environmental impact give skill to contribute to novel designs.

  • A2. Advanced Characterisation Method and Tools

    A large variety of tools and methods including use of large-scale facilities are needed to fully undestand the mechanism of modern batteries and ultimately improve them.

  • A3. Modeling

    Modern battery research embraces materials modelling at all scales from atoms to cell and pack level, including te use of AI and ML to handle the analysis of large amounts of data efficiently and for forecasting.

  • A4. From Cell to Application

    Whatever the battery concept, there is large need of better understanding of how the application demands affect cell concepts, perfomance needs, and the development stages in academia and industry.

B. Transferable Skills

  • B1. Personal effectiveness

    The development of personal qualities and training in approaches to be an efective researcher:

    • Career development.
    • Personal development.

  • B2. Research governance and entrepreneurship

    Knowledge of the professional standards and requirements, benchmarking and results exploitation.


    • Research and industry: binging down barriers
    • Professional responsibility.
    • Management.

  • B3. Engagement, influence and impact

    The knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research.


        Working with others &engagement.

        Communication and dissemination.

        Societal impact

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