COMPEL provides funding for law and geoscience for new collaboration on critical raw materials
Carl Fredrik Bergström, David Langlet and Mikael Höök Photo: Carl Fredrik Bergström and Mikael Wallerstedt
Carl Fredrik Bergström and David Langlet, together with Mikael Höök at the Department of Earth Sciences, have received funding to announce a two-year postdoctoral position. It will be based at the Department of Law. The project is one of five that have been awarded 2.2 million from the battery initiative COMPEL.
COMPEL aims to provide expertise to Swedish industry in the green transition of the transport sector (link below).
The project that has now received funding concerns Sustainable Chains of Supply for Critical Raw Materials, and the overall issue to be addressed is how the EU's new regulation on critical raw materials – the so-called Critical Raw Materials Act – will affect battery research and production.
The hope is that the project will help Swedish battery research and
production to better navigate a complex reality. It will be part of a new collaboration to build a horizontal research environment at Uppsala University – i.e. across disciplinary boundaries – which will contribute unique expertise to solving problems where law and geopolitics are important for the green energy transition in Sweden and Europe. The intention is that such collaboration will enable joint applications for research funding and strengthen the university's collaboration with society.