By virtue of this agreement, the two bodies will be collaborating on the development of PhD theses and joint activities in research and development projects and will also be encouraging researcher exchange and mobility, among other things.
This agreement recognises the work of IK4-IKERLAN in research into energy storage as the VuB has a considerable wealth of expertise in this field. After all, the organisation collaborating with IK4-IKERLAN is the research group with the largest number of European research projects on the continent and belongs to the Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre (MOBI), one of the most important organisations in Europe dealing with research into technologies for electric vehicles.