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International Programmes – Strengthening Global Research Links

Our approach to international research programmes

The Faraday Institution continues to strengthen its position as a trusted partner in global battery research and innovation. Its international agenda is guided by scientific collaboration and diplomacy: building relationships to accelerate discovery, sharing expertise to tackle shared challenges, and ensuring partnerships are equitable and mutually beneficial.

This global work operates along two main tracks: collaborating with leading research groups to advance battery science and co-developing energy storage solutions with emerging economies and resource-rich nations to support sustainable growth. All efforts reflect the belief that the energy transition demands cooperation across borders, sectors and disciplines.

International partnerships are shaped by six commitments:

  • Advancing the UK’s role in battery innovation and supply chain resilience
  • Leveraging research community strength
  • Ensuring value flows in both directions
  • Building trust through sustained engagement
  • Embedding environmental, social and governance principles
  • Setting clear, measurable objectives.

The Faraday Institution’s approach is aligned with UK government strategies that advance international collaboration and manufacturing leadership. Drawing upon the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025, which prioritises global partnerships and deeper economic ties for supply chain resilience, the Institution supports national aims to grow frontier industries. Its targeted alliances with international partners – such as the United States and Japan – reflect priorities set out in the Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, emphasising mutual supply chain security. The Institution directly supports the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT’s) International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), driving prosperity and innovation through joint research, technology development, and international engagement.

International partnerships are essential for maintaining UK scientific excellence. The Institution actively supports this through ministerial science dialogues, knowledge exchanges, workshops, visiting fellowships, and strategic research collaborations. Notably, 42.9% of published research papers from the Faraday Institution to October 2025 includes international collaborators, spanning nearly 500 institutions across 49 countries.

Our International Programmes 

Strengthening Links to Researchers in South America

The scheme, supported by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, builds deeper research links with lithium producing-countries and strengthens knowledge sharing between the UK, Argentina, Chile and Brazil.

UK Japan Energy Storage Research Fellowships

In 2024, the Faraday Institution and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency launched a two-year bilaterial fellowship to strengthen collaboration between the two countries in next-generation battery technologies.

UK US Engagement

UK-US engagement in battery research strengthened significantly in 2025, building upon multi-year collaborative programmes in battery recycling and cathode development funded by DSIT, which concluded successfully in March 2025.

UK Germany Collaboration

Building on a science and technology agreement signed between the two countries in December 2024, a UK–Germany solid-state battery collaboration has advanced.

Through leadership of the Ayrton Challenge on Energy Storage (ACES), the UK now plays a key role in the energy transition in emerging economies, working to ensure equitable benefits for the Global South. 

Read more about the Faraday Institution’s leadership of ACES.

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