The Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme of European Union has launched a huge MSCA COFUND project entitled Doctorate programme on Emerging battery Storage Technologies INspiring Young scientists, DESTINY https://www.destiny-phd.eu/. CNRS, acting as the coordinator, with 40 European partner institutions working on future batteries and related issues on energy storage, committed to ambitiously participate in the long-term research initiative Battery 2030+. A new paradigm change in battery research is foreseen.