Battery Booster

In December 2025, the Commission proposed the Battery Booster strategy as a new overarching framework to strengthen the entire European battery value chain. The CCT Pilot will serve to align cross-border and EU action to achieve greater economic impact across Europe, supporting and accelerating the successful implementation of the strategy. The Battery Booster Facility set up under the strategy will mobilise, through the Innovation Fund, interest-free loans worth of EUR 1.5 billion to support European battery-cell producers during the ramp-up phase. EUR 300 million will be on offer for critical raw materials, with first disbursements foreseen in 2026. 

This CCT Pilot will ensure coherent investment and reforms in the entire European value chain, so that this investment has pan-European impact. This can add EUR 365 billion to EU GDP and create 170,000 jobs by 2030. The CCT will map investment gaps, identify funding sources and bring coherence in private investment and EU and national funding instruments. It will complement EU support with projects from national, regional and private resources. An example is the Interregional Investment Programme for projects such as BATMASS in Central and Eastern Europe that develop recycling and reuse of battery materials. Member States are invited to match the EU-level investment. Throughout 2026, the CCT will also align and strengthen Member States’ measures to create lead markets for batteries, for example via “Made in Europe” requirements, enhanced screening of direct investment and the promotion of measures such as consumer subsidies - both under the Net Zero Industry Act and the Industrial Accelerator Act. To avoid future dependencies, the CCT will bring Europe’s battery value chain to the next innovation level, for example for solid-state batteries and circular solutions. Working from the Strategic Energy Technology plan, the CCT will support the development of a European innovation investment and implementation roadmap for batteries by 2026. Drawing on the Skills Intelligence Observatory, coordinated measures to endow citizens with the right skills will feed into the European Semester. The CCT will offer a vehicle to exchange information on finance, research and innovation, and upskilling, reskilling and training schemes for workers.