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Call for proposals: Europe is investing €300.5 million in clean hydrogen technologies

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is launching its first call for proposals – €300.5 million will be made available for supporting projects, in an unprecedented drive to boost the development of cutting-edge hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

New hydrogen research and innovation priorities for Europe’s Clean Hydrogen Partnership

The Governing Board of the Clean Hydrogen JU adopted on Friday, 25 February, the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the period 2021-2027 of the JU and its first Annual Work Programme (AWP) for 2022.

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Programme Highlights

PRESLHY Project. Towards safer Liquid Hydrogen-based systems and infrastructures

The project PRESLHY, concluded in 2021, performed pre-normative research activities for the safe use of liquid (cryogenic) hydrogen LH2 as an energy carrier.

Trucks are a perfectly viable transport segment for fuel cells

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is supporting the uptake of fuel cells and hydrogen in the road heavy-duty transport segment, contributing to the transition to a greener mobility system, with the final aim to provide clean, accessible and affordable transport solutions to all Europeans.

Zulu 06 en route pour la France!

The world's first hydrogen cargo vessel has left the shipyard and is bound for France. The journey from the shipyard in Romania to France is well underway. Via the Danube River, Zulu reached Budapest earlier this week.

“Valencia is the pioneering and emblematic port in Europe in the development of hydrogen technologies”

The director of the National Hydrogen Centre (CNH2), Emilio Nieto, explained that “València is the pioneering and emblematic port in Europe in the development of hydrogen technologies. The H2PORTS project is the first initiative financed by the European Commission for the development of this clean energy and its deployment in ports.

HyPSTER project prepares the construction phase

Currently under development on the French site of Etrez (located between Geneva and Lyon), HyPSTER is the first green hydrogen storage demonstrator in a salt cavern, supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership – the successor of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU).

Pillars of Progress: Faster, cheaper, high-quality fuel cell production

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership (formerly Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking[1]) has invested EUR 31 million in several, complementary manufacturing projects to help produce fuel cells in greater quantities, to strict quality standards, and at lower cost.

Industry and Policy Headlines

Horizon Impact Award 2022

On 6 January 2022, the European Commission launched the third edition of Horizon Impact Award prize! All beneficiaries of closed FP7/H2020 projects are invited to submit their application to the prize by 6 April 2022 and compete for the prize worth 25.000 € per each winner.

Opening speech by President von der Leyen at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit

The role of EU research and innovation investments to deliver on the EU’s Hydrogen Strategy

A new Commission Working document showcases the role of EU research and innovation investment in clean hydrogen to accelerate the green energy transition and reach European Green Deal goals by 2050.

Upcoming events

World Hydrogen 2022 Summit & Exhibition

The Sustainable Energy Council (SEC) in partnership with the Province of Zuid Holland, the City of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam are organising the World Hydrogen 2022 Summit & Exhibition between 9-11 May 2022.

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