FAAM RESEARCH CENTER S.R.L.

Their core work

FAAM Research Center is an Italian private company specializing in electrochemical energy storage — particularly lithium-ion battery technologies. They contribute material characterization, testing, and validation expertise to European battery R&D consortia, covering everything from electrode materials to polymer electrolytes and battery safety. Their work spans the full battery value chain: silicon anodes, lithium-rich cathodes, polymer-based components, and self-healing battery materials. As a research arm likely connected to the FAAM battery manufacturing legacy in Italy, they bridge industrial battery production knowledge with advanced materials research.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

FAAM's H2020 participation is concentrated in a tight 2019–2020 window, so the evolution is subtle but visible. Their earlier projects (TEESMAT, Si-DRIVE) emphasize material characterization infrastructure — real-time testing, non-destructive analysis, modelling, and battery safety compliance. The later projects (POLYSTORAGE, Hydra, BAT4EVER) shift toward advanced battery chemistries: polymer electrolytes, hybrid electrodes, and self-healing materials. This suggests a move from characterization services toward deeper involvement in next-generation battery material development.

FAAM is moving from battery testing and validation toward active development of next-generation battery materials, particularly polymer-based and self-healing components — positioning themselves for solid-state and beyond-lithium-ion research.

How they like to work

FAAM operates exclusively as a participant, never leading consortia — consistent with a specialized industrial contributor providing testing infrastructure and domain expertise to larger research efforts. With 63 unique partners across 19 countries from just 5 projects, they work in large, diverse consortia (averaging 12+ partners per project). This broad network suggests they are valued as a reliable testing and characterization partner that multiple consortium builders invite into their projects.

Despite only 5 projects, FAAM has built a remarkably wide network of 63 partners across 19 countries, indicating they consistently join large pan-European battery research consortia. Their geographic reach spans well beyond Italy into a broad European collaboration footprint.

What sets them apart

FAAM brings an industrial battery manufacturing perspective to academic-heavy research consortia — they understand what matters when lab results need to translate to production. Their combination of material characterization capability with deep lithium-ion domain knowledge makes them a practical validation partner for battery material innovations. For consortium builders, they fill the gap between university research and industrial-scale battery production, particularly for Italian and Southern European representation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TEESMAT
  Their largest project by far (EUR 107,604 of their total EUR 157,636), focused on building an open innovation test bed for electrochemical energy storage materials — their core characterization mission.
• POLYSTORAGE
  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie training network, signaling FAAM's involvement in training the next generation of polymer battery researchers alongside top European institutions.
• BAT4EVER
  Explores self-healing battery components — a frontier topic that signals FAAM's ambition to move into emerging battery technologies beyond conventional Li-ion.