When you spend months looking at data points on a screen or testing materials in isolated labs, there is nothing quite like getting everyone into the same room to see how the whole puzzle fits together.
From 6-8 July 2026, the STREAMS consortium did exactly that. We met at the University of Warwick (UoW), for our 5th General Assembly, and with our 36-month timeline officially in its final stretch, the atmosphere in Coventry was charged with a mix of intense focus and genuine excitement.
What happens when a whole consortium sync up?
Hosted by our partner UoW, this wasn’t just a meeting to read off slides. It was three intense days of mapping out how our individual breakthroughs will join together on a real-world factory floor.
Over the course of workshops, work packages updates and debates, here is what the team pushed forward:
- Project updates: the team reviewed core progress on resource pre-processing, battery upcycling, and the scaling of sustainable lithium and transition metal precursors. We also aligned on our communication, dissemination, and exploitation strategies to maximize the visibility of the project’s developments.
- Sustainability & impact: we locked in the data parameters required for our upcoming prospective life cycle assessments (LCA) to ensure every technology meets strict safe-and-sustainable-by-design criteria.
- Exploitation strategy: we adjusted the rollout strategy for our Key Exploitable Results (KERs) to ensure the industry can actually adopt these technologies as we hit the pilot scale.
Walking the floor at UoW
The absolute highlight of the week was taking a break from the conference room to tour UoW’s battery, materials, and manufacturing labs. Walking through the pilot lines gave all of us a tangible look at the automated infrastructure that will soon be validating STREAMS’ active materials in real manufacturing environments.
The road ahead
Leaving Coventry, the energy across the consortium is incredibly high. The transition from lab breakthroughs to practical, automated scale-up is a massive challenge, but seeing the dedication of this international team proves we are right on track.
A huge thank you to the team at the University of Warwick for being incredible hosts, and to all our partners for bringing their best energy to the table! Keep your eyes on this space, we are entering the home stretch!
You can download the press release here.
