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ENERCAP aims to strengthen the EU position within the energy storage scenario, especially with respect to the field of supercapacitors, where the United States and Asia are the spearheads of a market considered to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.1% between 2019 and 2025, reaching a value of $4,09 billion by 20254. Electrochemical capacitors are being used for an increasing number of energy conservation and energy harvesting applications, from portable electronics or electric vehicles (EVs) to aerospace applications or stationary storage. The lack of intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration is a barrier to implement innovation into the market, which has been identified in the European Roadmap for Energy Storage as one of the main reasons why Europe currently lags behind the USA and Asia in supercapacitor innovation and market performance. ENERCAP will break these barriers by joining forces of the best EU stakeholders in the playground under the same umbrella to respond to the urgent needs in training and skills development for a future highly qualified workforce capable of performing research and transferring results to the market. Thanks to the composition of the ENERCAP consortium, these future experts will have a global vision of the entire supercapacitors value chain, from basic research on electrode materials and electrolytes to their scale-up and commercialization to final product development and integrated solutions.