As many other Member States, Czech Republic is also moving ahead focusing on its battery sector, a large-scale commitment led by the Czech Battery Cluster (CBC). It’s now our turn to work closer with the European Battery Alliance (EBA250) of which CBC has officially become a member on 21st June 2024 and formulate the next steps to increase its/our efforts when it comes to growth of industry and workforce at large.
Launched in 2017 under the auspices of European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič and driven by EIT InnoEnergy, the EBA’s mission is to create a competitive and sustainable battery cell manufacturing value chain in Europe. The CBC is eager to join this work and with combined efforts increase the value creation for an integrated European battery industry.
The Czech Battery Cluster – now part of the wide network of EBA250 – was founded in 2022 and by standards of the western cluster internal structure it stands up on triple-helix organization – blending the Czech state (represented by CzechInvest governmental agency), the academia and the Czech business sector. Its mission is to build up and cultivate the whole battery value chain ecosystem in Czech Republic. So far it has grown to 35 members gathering the think tanks of almost all the Czech technical universities, the backing of Czech main battery business stakeholders and together with the Czech government agencies started working on both legislative framework and foreign investors’ attraction.
Further details are to be revealed early autumn, discussing the next steps ahead of the partnership.
Tomáš Kazda
CBC Chairman