Summer school

28.07 – 1.08.2025
 2 ECTS
 450€

About Elmo-Lion summer school

A venture‐creation Summer School where students can prepare their projects related to industrial challenges and have personal communication with experts from academy and industry. The program includes:

  • Lectures and seminars from industrial and academic partners.
  • Working on the developing ideas for solving industrial challenges under mentors supervision.
  • Start-up application.

Information about Summer school is updated:
Dates of event are July 28 – August 1, 2025
The School will take place in the “Aula Magna” of the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department. The address is Via Loredan, 20, Padova, Italy 35131

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How it was last years

Testimonials

Last week, my colleague Alisa Bogdanova and I participated in the ELMO-LION summer school.
It was a fantastic opportunity to attend engaging lectures delivered by professors from various European universities. We also presented our solution to one of the most crucial problems in the production of lithium-ion batteries, which involves replacing NMP and PVDF. This school provided me with the chance to broaden my network within the field of lithium-ion batteries.
You can also check out the Instagram page of our research group (@aalto_eecs), where we have already shared stories from the ELMO-LION school.

Anna Kobets

Great talk from Prof. Vito Di Noto at the ELMO-LION Summer School on lithium batteries for PhD students. ELMO-LION is an educational project funded by EIT RawMaterials and European Union. Partners are LUT University Università degli Studi di Padova Aalto University University of Oulu University of Eastern Finland University of Helsinki Delft University of Technology Politecnico di Milano Empa Metso Outotec Finland Oy Centro Ricerche Fiat

Gioele Pagot

This week I had the honour to be invited to the ELMO-LION battery school this summer hosted at Lake Como and Brunette and funded by EIT RawMaterials. This school gave me the opportunity to learn and network from some amazing academics in the battery industry, and I am very grateful and thankful for the time they gave to us. I was also able to collaborate with people all over the world who are working in batteries for their PhDs to have the same passion for batteries and a sustainable future. Especially when I had the pleasure to work closely with Mahmoud Reda, Valentina Diolaiti and Akzhan B. to create and pitch a start up idea we created about bridging the gap between the academia and industry to be a consulting company for high performance batteries in niche applications. This presentation even gave us the opportunity to apply to a startup camp hosted by EIT materials for next year, which I am very much looking forward to applying for. In addition, as I was in Lake Como we also had the amazing opportunity to visit the Temple Volta and learn the history of the origin of my PhD in batteries. I wanted to thank EIT materials and the organisers for the ELMO-LION school for this incredible week and the good friends I have made across the world.

Esther Gray

This week I had the pleasure to attend the ELMO-LION summer school in Brunate Italy, funded by EIT RawMaterials, where I had the chance to attend lectures and learn from some of Europe's top Professors in the lithium-ion batteries field like Professors: Corsin Battaglia , Vito Di Noto, Ekaterina Laakso, Bernardo Barbiellini, Rafael Ferragut, S. Assa Aravindh. Additionally, I attended lectures about current industry and startups insights from Riccardo Rocca , Spiros Divanis, Lotta Aalto, and Yi Shi. During the summer school, I also worked on developing a project that ends up bridging both academia and industry by creating a startup that develops expertise in high power density lithium-ion batteries and then offers a consulting service with Esther Gray , Akzhan B., and Valentina Diolaiti and we were mentored by Prof. Xiuyun Zhao. As we were in Como we had the chance to visit the museum of Alessandro Volta and learn more about the origin of batteries. I am very thankful to the organizers of the summer school, the lecturers, and the participants for the great experience, lectures, and conversations.

Mahmoud Reda

This summer I had the pleasure and honor of participating in the ELMO-LION Summer school in Brunate. This school gave me the opportunity to learn from battery experts like Ekaterina Laakso , Bernardo Barbiellini , Rafael Ferragut , Vito Di Noto , S. Assa Aravindh, Corsin Battaglia, Yi Shi, Xiuyun Zhao and to collaborate with other guys from all over the world with different scientific backgrounds Emanuela Mangiacapre, Veenavee Kothalawala , Nicole Ceribelli, Meiying ZHENG. In particular, I had the pleasure of working and presenting a project on optimizing a pre-treatment process for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries with Eva Gualtieri, Boren Xu , Alisa Bogdanova and Betzabeth Briceño. Working in a team and finding a compromise between the ideas of each of us was a challenge that it has certainly made us mature both on a human level and as researchers. Special thanks go to the organizers of this doctoral school, which far exceeded my expectations.

Micol Di Veroli

I thank Prof. Bernardo Barbiellini, Prof. Ekaterina Laakso, and Prof. Rafael Ferragut for giving me the opportunity to participate in ELMO-LION Summer School held in Brunate. It was an honor to be immersed in such a stimulating and collaborative environment, with brilliant and passionate individuals. Throughout this intense week, I had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge of LIBs and broaden my perspective, thanks to the contributions of various scientists and industry experts. Thanks again to the entire organizing team that created such a stimulating environment, and also to the participants. #ELMOLION #EITRawMaterials #Batteries #Science

Jacopo Strada

The lectures are given by famous experts from the following institutions:

 

    • LUT University

    • Aalto University

    • University of Oulu (UOULU)

    • University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

    • University of Helsinki

    • Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology)

    • Politecnico di Milano

    • University of Padova

    • EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

    • Metso Outotec Finland Oy

    • Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF)