MOSAIC addresses a grand challenge for European competitiveness: technological independence and filled fabs in the landscape of automated systems. By fostering innovation in Electronic Components and Systems (ECS), MOSAIC aims to propel Europe to excellence and digital autonomy, directly linked to the EU Chips Act. The project achieves this through a comprehensive strategy. It will develop next-generation ECS offering superior, cognitive system intelligence, enabling energy efficiency and robustness. These results will be tailored to the demands of automated systems, enabling rapid data processing and intuitive, AI-enabled decision- making. MOSAIC tackles the challenge of integrating diverse perception hardware configurations, ensuring that automated systems can perceive their surroundings in a non-invasive manner, avoiding a single point of failure, with unparalleled accuracy and decreased complexity. Additionally, the project emphasizes standardized communication protocols and interoperability, fostering a collaborative ecosystem across several industries, namely automotive, aerospace, maritime, industrial automation and infrastructures. By spearheading such advancements, MOSAIC empowers European ECS manufacturers to gain a competitive advantage. The project's achievements will be demonstrated in 31 cutting-edge technical showcases, indicatively global perception through 360° distributed radar, AI-enabled reasoning through magnetic field signature and resilient communications by means of non-terrestrial networks. 2 accompanying impact studies, will solidify Europe's position as a global leader in automated systems. MOSAIC leverages a pan-European consortium encompassing the entire ECS value chain, ensuring a comprehensive effort towards filling the European fabs and ensuring digital sovereignty. In essence, MOSAIC is an investment in Europe's future – a secure digital future of technological leadership, economic prosperity, and strategic independence.

As of 2025, new generations of Li batteries based on silicon/carbon (Gen. 4a) and Li metal (Gen. 4b) anode, where flammable liquid electrolyte is replaced by a non-flammable solid-one, will take over the current Li-ion device. However, only all-solid-state Gen. 4b Li batteries are expected to fulfil the needed cell gravimetric energy density specifications demanded by electromobility and stationary applications. Therefore, SEATBELT ambition is to generate a local EU industry that revolves around a cost-effective, robust all-solid-state Li battery comprising sustainable materials by 2026. SEATBELT intends to achieve the first technological milestone of developing a battery cell (TRL5) meeting the needs of Electric Vehicle (EV) and stationary industry. The low-cost SEATBELT cell is safe-by-design with sustainable and recyclable materials, reaching high energy densities (>380 Wh/kg) and long cyclability (>500 cycles) by 2026 in line with the 2030 EU targets. The cells are produced by low-cost solvent-free extrusion process comprising a combination of innovative materials: thin Li metal, hybrid electrolyte, a safe cathode active material without critical materials and thin Al current collector. The cell design being optimized by interface (operando and atomistic modelling) and process (machine learning) methodologies. In addition, new in situ imaging instrumentation will be developed to investigate safety properties and mechanical deformation to assess cell safety in real conditions. An innovative recycling cycle from materials to cell level will be also established. Thus, SEATBELT will be the start point of a first EU all-solid-state battery value chain, whose main players in RTD and Industry sectors are within the consortium. So, cells and modules will cycle using industrially relevant protocols dedicated to EV and stationary applications. SEATBELT consortium is composed of 14 beneficiary partners and 3 affiliated entities, and one associated partner, from 7 European countries with an overall budget of 7851448.50€.

The growing energy demand aggravated by the high dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels has severely impacted on climate change, as evidenced by Earth’s global average temperature increase in the last century. Road transport is responsible for around three quarters of transport-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, thus decarbonization of this sector is necessary to achieve a climate neutrality. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are a crucial enabler for accomplishing this target. In this frame, SOLIDBAT proposes a disruptive solid-state battery (SSB) technology to meet the challenging demands of the automotive sector. The focus is on high energy density SSB (400 Wh/kg, 1000 Wh/L) enabling fast charging, long life, and safety. To achieve these goals, SOLIDBAT entails innovation in five main areas: i) Digital tools and models for materials development and cell parameters design; ii) High capacity and water processable surface protected nickel-rich NMC cathode active material; iii) 3D-texturized high energy lithium metal anode coated with a protective artificial solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI); iv) Highly conductive and electrochemically stable hybrid gel polymer electrolyte (HGPE), crosslinked in-situ; and v) Scalable solutions for SSB technology manufacturing that are easily adaptable to current lithium-ion technology, thus hastening the introduction into the EV market. Moreover, cost, sustainability and recycling are prioritized along the whole project development, in e.g., reducing raw material use and avoiding organic solvents for greener processing. SOLIDBAT's collaborative consortium spans the whole battery value chain, fostering European innovation and industry growth. By establishing SSB manufacturing in Europe, SOLIDBAT contributes to climate-neutral energy and transport transitions, as well as avoids the dependence of battery production on Asian countries such as the current situation for Li-ion technology.

Climate change, CO2 footprint, energy transition, safety & security as well as sovereignty are key issues that the common population can very well relate to today. As we face critical challenges, research and development in our ECS domain needs to address them more than ever. In particular the energy transition needs to be accelerated in order to become more independent from gas and oil energy, which was considered being available at low costs and without limits until recently. This assumption has been proven to be based on very fragile grounds and it has come to an end. One solution to accelerate the energy transition is to use all generated energy. This means that overflow energy produced in wind or solar parks needs to be available in periods when common energy generation is lacking. This requires important investments into infrastructure, which will only flow, if investors trust into the technologies enabling solutions. The faster the trust is built, the faster the transition can be realized. On the other hand, technologies and products that will ensure an economic use of resources and enable long and trusted lifetime of systems and components in the ECS domain have to be developed. ARCHIMEDES contributes to this in the domains of automotive, aviation and industry. In ARCHIMEDES, components, models and methodologies to increase the efficiency and lifetime of the propulsion components, power components and energy storage devices in automotive, aviation and industry will be developed. This will support the energy transition on the consumer`s side. In order to support this mission, ARCHIMEDES aims to change technologies and products in the automotive, aviation, infrastructure domains and the related ecosystem towards a resilient, de-carbonized, digitalized, and green EU: It will help building trust in the new technologies and thus contribute to accelerating the energy transition, safety and security.

BatteReverse aims to enable the next generation of battery reverse logistics (RL). It will develop a more efficient and universal method for battery discharge and first diagnosis for a wide range of Li-ion battery types, safety packaging with a monitoring system reducing thermal runaway risk during transportation of batteries, automated dismantling and sorting of battery components based on a safe and more efficient human-robot collaboration, and a more precise and faster Remaining Useful Life assessment of battery modules for 2nd life applications based on acoustic testing and machine learning algorithms. On top of that, BatteReverse will develop a Battery Data Space with standardised labelling and battery passport functionalities to improve battery identification. We will connect the stakeholders through a community platform and analyse the entire RL process by a digital twin (DT) simulation that will optimise profitability of RL circular business models. The innovations will be integrated and demonstrated in an operational environment in two use-cases for end-of-first-life (EoFL) EV batteries - recycling and repurposing – mirrored with the DT simulation. By 2026 we expect these developments to contribute to following outcomes: increase recycling efficiency by 5%, raise share of repurposed EoFL batteries to 10%, reduce risk of severe events in reverse logistics to 1/10.000, successfully simulate two successful RL business models and to have a stakeholder’s community platform with 50+ stakeholders. These outcomes will contribute to the sovereignty of the EU in the battery sector. By further uptake of the developed results beyond the project, BatteReverse targets to avoid the use of 3.691 tonnes/year of primary critical raw materials, on top of that avoid the deployment of 100,8 MWh capacity of new batteries yearly while capturing an extra €30,24 million/year value out of EoFL batteries and avoiding 31 severe risk events/year within the EU RL battery chain by 2029.