HiQ-LCA: Closing data gaps in Europe’s battery value chain
HiQ-LCA: Closing data gaps in Europe’s battery value chain
HiQ-LCA provides Europe's battery manufacturers with a standardised LCA database and training tools to meet the EU Battery Regulation's requirements.
Location: Europe-wide
Supported by: EIT RawMaterials Funding
The HiQ-LCA project is helping Europe’s battery industry meet the EU Battery Regulation’s tougher reporting rules. Manufacturers and suppliers must now disclose CO₂ emissions, raw material sources, recycling recovery rates, and the share of recycled content.
To close key data gaps in these areas, the HiQ-LCA project equips companies with the data, tools and expertise they need to report and verify results accurately. The project is developing new software for battery data collection, modelling and verification, as well as related services and training.
This resource will make it easier for companies to access consistent information, compare performance, and meet sustainability standards.
By combining practical support with trusted data, HiQ-LCA is helping companies strengthen sustainability reporting and build confidence in Europe’s growing battery value chain.
Impact highlights
- Held three industry workshops in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to map data needs, encourage data sharing, and validate new offers
- Conducted several trainings – basis training on Life Cycle Assessment in May 2024 with 55 participants from more than 20 countries, hybrid carbon-footprinting training in May 2025 with 100 participants and online prospective life cycle assessment training in November 2025 with 92 registrations and 40 participants
- Modelled comprehensive future-oriented datasets to foster decarbonisation of the battery industry
- Demonstrated significant CO2 reductions via innovative direct recycling of battery materials
- Invested €3.5M to close data gaps, build competencies and create new offers for a reliable life cycle assessment along the battery value chain
- Developed an AI-supported data collection and verification tool, to ease validated LCA
- Published a Whitepaper: Challenges in Defining and Assessing Greenwashing
Project partners
- Project coordinator: European Lithium Institute (eLi), Belgium
- Partners: Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (France), CellCircle UG (Germany), ecoinvent Association (Switzerland), Eramet SA (France), Fraunhofer ISC (Germany), Fraunhofer IST (Germany), Ghent University (Belgium), Leiden University (Netherlands), Minviro Ltd (UK), Northvolt AB (Sweden), Université de Bordeaux (France)
