On June, 8-9th a first annual CEE CREI Workshop “Electrochemical Energy Storage: Challenges and Prospects” took place. The workshop was organized jointly by Skoltech, Moscow State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Moscow at the Chemistry Department of MSU. The talks on the most recent achievements in energy storage were given by faculty members of CEE CREI as well as by invited speakers from leading Russian and European universities. During the poster session Skoltech students actively used an opportunity to discuss their current research results with the leading scientists in this area as well as with their colleagues from MSU and MIT.