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The direct recycling of battery materials is a key strategy for maximizing sustainability and strengthening geopolitical independence along the battery value chain. Not least with the new EU Battery Regulation, this innovative recycling process is increasingly coming into focus. The regulation demands batteries with a low carbon footprint, stricter regulations for critical raw materials (CRM), and high-quality recycling processes with defined recovery rates for CRM. In addition, the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) places a stronger emphasis on circular economy and efficient recycling.

To advance this future topic, the Fraunhofer Center for Electromobility Bavaria (FZEB) of Fraunhofer ISC invites you to the second "Conference on Battery Direct Recycling." The event brings together leading experts from science, industry, and politics to exchange ideas on key topics such as design for recycling, innovative recycling methods, digitalization, life cycle assessment, as well as political and economic frameworks, and to create a strong network for the future of battery recycling. At the first conference in 2024, over 150 participants from research and industry took the opportunity for professional exchange and actively contributed to building a strong community for the direct recycling of batteries.

We look forward to providing a platform for this forward-looking topic again in 2026!
 

Call for Papers

This second edition of the conference looks to delve further into the many aspects of direct recycling through your contributions. This call for abstracts is looking for submissions related to the direct recycling of battery technologies in four thematic areas. For submissions that do not fit into one of these categories, please contact the scientific board.

1. POLICY AND MARKET
2. DIRECT RECYCLING METHODS + PROCESSES
   Includes subtopics such as:
   Discharge and disassembly
   Delamination, deagglomeration and classification
   Regeneration and upgrading
   Reintegration of recovered materials (also as blends)
   Recovery and reuse of inactive materials
   Recycling of next-generation components and battery technologies
   Valorization of black mass using direct recycling processes
3. SUSTAINABILITY + DIGITALIZATION
   Includes subtopics such as: LCA, LCC, social LCA, …
4. Digitalization and Automation of Direct Recycling processes
   Battery Passport
   DESIGN FOR CIRCULARITY
   Includes the development and implementation of design strategies on both the cell and pack level to facilitate a circular value chain (Design for recycling, Design for Second Life, Design for X)

Contributions of both oral and poster presentations are welcome from researchers at all levels. Contributions will be selected by the conference board on the basis of the originality of the research, the level of results indicated in the abstract, and the relevance for the field of Direct Battery Recycling.
 

Submission deadlines:

Presentations: August 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance of oral presentations by mid-October

Posters: August 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance by mid-October

Please register for abstract submission and use the abstract template provided to comply with GDPR regulations.
 

Submission criteria:

• Each presenting author may submit only one abstract.
• The conference language is English
• Abstracts must be a maximum of 600 words (including references and acknowledgements) and may include an illustration.

Please note that only a limited number of places are available.