The report addresses the challenges facing the battery sector in Poland, Slovakia, and the wider CEE region: the need to leverage their potential for production leadership and translate it into innovative and robust research and development capabilities. The drafting of the report was based on a series of workshops in Poland (organized among others as part of the PSPA Battery Committee) and in the CEE region, which was done with the existing partnerships of CEE GTI and SEVA, and support from market leaders and stakeholders in Poland and Slovakia.