Official 2025 Award Compendium: Verified timeline and research achievements across European Joint Programme Energy Storage events.
Master Data Summary Table (2025 All-Inclusive Timeline)
| Date (2025) |
Event |
Recipient & Rank |
Organisation |
| May 6–7 |
Battery 2030+ Annual Conference |
Steffen Heuvel (1st)
Leonardo Balducci (2nd) |
Univ. of Münster
Univ. of Pavia |
| May 13–14 |
Joint Workshop EERA ES-e3s-CSP-DfE (Madrid) |
Philipp Rentschler (1st)
Javier Baigorri (2nd) |
KIT
CENER |
| June 12 |
3rd StoRIES Summer School (Trondheim) |
Margaux Gouis (1st)
David Pérez-Gallego (2nd ex-aeq)
Philipp Rentschler (2nd ex-aeq) |
SINTEF
Univ. Salamanca
KIT |
| September 15–17 |
Power to X Workshop (Lappeenranta) |
Daphne Alexandra Ruppelt (1st)
Ville Saarinen (2nd)
Anafi Aini (3rd) |
KIT
VTT
LUT |
| Sep 29 – Oct 1 |
1st TCM Friends Academy Summer School |
Jan Marčec (1st - PhD)
Enrico Patrucco (2nd - Master) |
NIC Ljubljana
RSE S.p.A |
| Nov 5–6 |
Workshop on Energy Storage (Rome) |
Francesco Santoro (1st ex-aeq)
Luigi Mattia (1st ex-aeq) |
Consorzio RFX
Univ. of Salerno |
1. Battery 2030+ Annual Conference
May 6–7, 2025 | Münster, Germany
The Battery 2030+ conference spotlights green, high-performing battery technologies. Coordinated through Sub-Programme 1 (SP1) initiatives, EERA JP ES awarded two early-stage researchers for technical excellence in lithium-based electrochemical storage.
— MEET Battery Research Center, University of Münster
1st Place
"Ultralong cycling of Li-metal cells enabled by aromatic diluents in localized-high concentration electrolytes"
Outlined fundamental strategic pathways to mitigate high reactivity, safety concerns, and electrolyte degradation in lithium-metal architectures.
— University of Pavia
2nd Place
"Functionalized SiO₂ Nanoparticles as HF Scavengers for Novel Separators in Li-ion Batteries" (co-authored with Daniele Callegari)
Presented a multifunctional three-layer separator designed to capture acidic species and suppress transition-metal dissolution.
2. Joint Workshop EERA ES–e3s–CSP–DfE
May 13–14, 2025 | Madrid, Spain
A collaborative event bringing together four EERA Joint Programmes (Energy Storage - ES, Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Energy Policies and Technologies - e3s, Concentrated Solar Power - CSP, and Digitalisation for Energy - DfE) to address cross-cutting challenges in renewable energy integration, decarbonization, and systemic storage solutions.
— Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
1st Place
"Power-to-X under variable wind: a dynamic system analysis"
Recognized for advanced experimental work addressing cross-cutting energy system integration and dynamic modeling under variable wind inputs.
— CENER (National Renewable Energy Centre)
2nd Place
"Techno-economic assessment of hybrid energy storage: integrating high-temperature air-based CSP and CAES for optimized operation in Spain"
Honored for novel contributions toward hybrid energy storage integration and economic optimization of air-based CSP and CAES systems.
3. 3rd StoRIES Summer School: Mid- to Long-term Hybrid Energy Storage
June 12, 2025 | Trondheim, Norway
Supported by the Horizon 2020 StoRIES project (Storage Research Infrastructure Eco-System), recognizing early-stage researchers in mid- to long-term hybrid energy storage and transient thermodynamic modeling.
— SINTEF Energy Research
1st Place
"Optimising Hybrid Energy Storage Solutions for the Green Transition: Insights from the ZEB Laboratory"
Evaluated highest for technical execution and practical insights on hybrid energy storage optimization at the ZEB Laboratory.
— Universidad de Salamanca
2nd Place Ex-aequo
"Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage: Improvements on the Huntorf plant and full transient thermodynamic model"
Awarded for high-impact research and full transient thermodynamic modeling of adiabatic compressed air energy storage systems.
— Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2nd Place Ex-aequo
"Power-To-X: A Dynamic System Analysis"
Awarded for oral/poster presentation on dynamic system analysis and Power-to-X methodology.
4. Business Opportunities in Power-to-X Technologies
September 15–17, 2025 | Lappeenranta, Finland
Hosted at LUT University in collaboration with KIT and VTT, focusing on Power-to-X integration, hydrogen vectors, and ocean-based carbon removal systems.
— Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
1st Place
"Capturing CO₂ from seawater: Advancing ocean-based carbon dioxide removal"
Showcased innovative direct ocean capture mechanisms designed to extract CO₂ from seawater as an integrated carbon removal pathway.
— VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
2nd Place
"Utilization of hydrogen as an energy storage vector by a combined reversible high temperature electrolysis and compressor system..."
Detailed a process model coupling reversible solid oxide cells with e-fuel synthesis for high-efficiency energy storage.
— LUT University
3rd Place
"Solid carbon production via CO₂ electrolysis in molten lithium carbonate"
Presented electrochemical conversion pathways to fixate captured carbon into solid structures using high-temperature molten salt electrolysis.
5. 1st TCM Friends Academy Summer School
September 29 – October 1, 2025 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organized by the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana under the EERA JP ES Thermal Energy Storage sub-programme, spotlighting Thermochemical Materials (TCMs) for sorption thermal batteries.
— National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana
1st Place – Best PhD
"Doped Porous Carbon Composites for Low Temperature Sorption Thermal Batteries"
Demonstrated structural modification strategies for porous carbon frameworks to optimize low-temperature sorption kinetics.
— RSE S.p.A, Milano
2nd Place – Best Master
"Development of Salt-in-Matrix Thermochemical Materials based on MgSO₄ and Cyclic Testing..."
Outlined experimental validation and cyclic reliability testing of composite magnesium sulfate materials within scaled experimental rigs.
6. Workshop on Energy Storage
November 5–6, 2025 | Rome, Italy
An international workshop spotlighting novel grid integration concepts, diagnostic modeling, and magnetic energy storage systems.
— Consorzio RFX
Ex-Aequo Winner
"The Magnetic Energy Storage and Transfer system (MEST): From concept to small-scale prototype"
Featured the design, architectural scaling, and initial validation of a small-scale prototype for rapid Magnetic Energy Storage and Transfer systems.
— University of Salerno
Ex-Aequo Winner
"Lithium battery temperature estimation by using battery impedance"
Demonstrated non-invasive core temperature estimation models using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS).