Background and motivation:
In December 2019, the European Commission presented the "European Green Deal", a package of policy initiatives aimed at making the EU climate neutral by 2050. These policy initiatives have a strong impact on the energy sector and in particular on the energy storage sector. The efficient use of renewable energy sources such as hydro, wind and solar will be necessary to fully decarbonize Europe. Although this energy transition is already well underway, some challenges in the field of energy storage are still unresolved, in particular long-term or seasonal storage is a key issue.
The Joint Programme on Energy Storage (JP ES) within the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) is the first pan-European program that brings together all major scientific institutions in the field of energy storage research in Europe. JPES is coordinated by KIT and is involved in the preparation of reports and official statements on the programme, the promotion of exchange between members, the organization of workshops and programme meetings.
StoRIES and RISEnergy are European collaborative projects developed by EERA JP ES and coordinated by KIT. The main objective of both projects is to open up the leading laboratories dealing with renewable energies to researchers and give them free access.

Tasks and objectives:
- Collaboration in the preparation of project proposals
- Analyzing scientific proposals and documenting the results
- Communicating with research infrastructure providers and potential users of the infrastructure
- Support in the organization of program and project meetings
- Preparation of contributions for the program and project websites and maintenance of the EERA JP ES website
- Creation of posts related to the program activities for social media channels
- Creation of tables and graphics

Qualifications
- Ongoing Master's degree in chemical and process engineering, mechanical engineering, technical chemistry, physics, computer science or comparable degree program
- Interest in scientific aspects of the future energy system
- High level of commitment and independence
- Team and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and reliably and a high level of commitment
- Very good knowledge of German and English
- Confident handling of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Very good knowledge of standard software (Microsoft Office)
- Experience in maintaining websites would be an advantage

Key data:
Start date: immediately
Job type: HIWI/student assistant
Institute/Department: IMVT - Institute of Micro Process Engineering / International Collaborative Projects
Place of work: on site - KIT Campus North
Supervisor: M. E. Gil Bardají (elisa.gil@kit.edu)