Funding Organisation: European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme
Timeline: Jan 2025 - May 2027
Budget: 1,071,505 CHF

Summary: 

This project examines how the European Commission’s Digital Battery Passport (DBP) can improve transparency, sustainability, and material traceability across the battery life cycle. Led by the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructure and Geothermal Systems (IEG) and supported by a multinational consortium of research and private-sector partners, the project develops a system that tracks battery “State of Health,” supply chains, manufacturing processes, and material composition in a decentralised and tamper-proof data infrastructure. The Geneva Graduate Institute contributes by analysing the social, economic, governance, and environmental dimensions of battery supply chains, in collaboration with partners across Europe and South America.

Team:

• BASE Coordinator, Sahin Jamali, Operational Manager Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence, Franhofer
• Principal Investigators,  Marc Hufty, Professeur titulaire, Development Studies and Programme Lead, Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability, Geneva Graduate Institute
• Principal Investigators, Morgan Scoville-Simonds, Postdoc affiliated researcher at CIES and at the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway
• Research Assistant, Jonas Niederberger