The European Commission has invited 77 industrial projects to prepare grant agreements under its 2025 Innovation Fund call, a package that could mobilise around €3.4 billion of support for net‑zero manufacturing and technology deployment. Among the selected projects are three battery‑related initiatives of direct relevance to Central and Eastern Europe: PowerCo Battery Spain’s planned LFP gigafactory in Sagunto (Valencia), LG Energy Solution Wrocław’s ArisEU LFP cell line in Poland, and Bosch’s FLOW4EVE thermal‑management project, which lists activities in Hungary and Romania. The Commission’s selection was published as part of its October Innovation Fund decisions.
What the shortlisted battery projects include
PowerCo Battery Spain’s project selected under the clean‑tech manufacturing strand aims to develop a lithium‑iron‑phosphate (LFP) cell gigafactory in Sagunto with the Innovation Fund‑backed phase sized at up to 27 GWh per year (the full site would be planned to rise to about 40 GWh in later stages).
In Poland, LG Energy Solution Wrocław’s “ArisEU” proposal was selected for an LFP cell production line with an indicated annual capacity of about 9 GWh; the project description highlights advanced stacking and accelerated formation technologies intended for prism‑type cells.
Robert Bosch’s FLOW4EVE project — described in the Innovation Fund selection list as having activities in Hungary and Romania — targets industrialisation of a modular heat‑pump based thermal‑management system for EV batteries and vehicle HVAC, intended to improve cold‑weather battery performance and enable bidirectional energy use cases such as vehicle‑to‑home and vehicle‑to‑grid. The Commission’s project register lists Hungary and Romania among FLOW4EVE’s activity locations.
