Lead Europe's Battery Transition with the full BatteryMBA

Europe set out to capture roughly 25% of global battery cell manufacturing by 2030. The European Battery Alliance helped catalyse over €180 billion of announced investment, and the continent now hosts dozens of gigafactory projects across Germany, France, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Italy and the UK. But the gap between announcement and shipping cells in qualified, EU-OEM-approved volumes has proved larger than expected, Northvolt's restructuring, ACC's slowdown and the dependency on Asian equipment and engineering talent have made one thing clear: the next five years are decisive.

The leaders winning in Europe are rarely the ones who only understand EU regulation. They understand Asian cell-manufacturing playbooks, US IRA dynamics, global chemistry roadmaps and the OEM strategies that shape demand, because all of those forces shape European project economics and bankability. The BatteryMBA is built around that full value chain, with Europe-specific case studies, projects and peers woven throughout.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the new Battery Regulation, replaces the 2006 Battery Directive and progressively introduces carbon-footprint declarations, due-diligence obligations, recycled-content minima (for cobalt, lead, lithium and nickel), collection and recycling-efficiency targets, the digital Battery Passport from February 2027, and performance and durability requirements for EV and industrial batteries. The Critical Raw Materials Act sets 2030 benchmarks for extraction (10%), processing (40%) and recycling (25%) inside the EU, plus a 65% cap on single-third-country supply. The Net-Zero Industry Act backs Strategic Projects with permitting acceleration. The programme walks through each instrument, the timelines and the compliance work each one creates inside an OEM, a cell maker or a recycler, grounded in the cell-level and value-chain fundamentals the BatteryMBA teaches up front.

Participants get a structured view of the European funding landscape: the Innovation Fund (the EU's largest single source of decarbonisation capex grants), IPCEI Batteries 1 and 2, the European Investment Bank's battery-sector envelope, the Just Transition Fund, and national instruments in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The gigafactory module covers the live project pipeline, the equipment and dry-room supply bottleneck, and the offtake patterns shaping European OEM sourcing through the end of the decade, alongside the global cell-manufacturing and EV demand modules that frame them.