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On the 15 and 16 September, the FCH JU and CLEAN SKY joint workshop on aeronautical applications of fuel cells took place in the DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) Institute of Space Propulsion in Lampoldshausen. This was the first time for two Joint Undertakings to unite efforts in view of exchanging conrete ideas to set the basis of two joint calls for proprosals. About 60 members of the two communities participated in the workshop and contributed by lively discussions to... Read more
On the 2nd of October 2015, with the presence of the Flemish Minister for the Budget, Finances, and Energy, Annemie Turtelboom, the first stone of hydrogen refuelling  station has been laid  in Zaventem.      FCH JU Executive Director, Bert De Colvenaer (left) together with Minister A. Turtelboom (middle), and  D.Luijten, Air Liquide (right) This station will be the first public hydrogen refueling station in Belgium and is built as part of the FCH JU... Read more
On the 24th September 2015, the new FCH JU supported project DEMOSOFC (4.2 million euro) has been presented at Castello del Valentino in Turin. The project will launch the first industrial size plant in Europe able to produce high effeciency energy with solide oxide fuel cells (SOFC) using biogas from waste water teatment  The European project DEMOSOFC  will focus on the installation in the SMAT plant of Collegno of the first European industrial fuel cell system able to convert the... Read more
The most ambitious hydrogen mobility initiatives in Europe have joined forces to support the introduction of hydrogen-fuelled transport.  The FCH2 JU supported project (€32 million), Hydrogen Mobility Europe (H2ME), has been launched by a large coalition of European partners. H2ME is the largest European project of this nature and is based around an alliance of the four most ambitious hydrogen mobility initiatives in Europe: H2 MOBILITY Deutschland, Mobilité Hydrogène France,... Read more
Cogeneration or Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is the most efficient way to deliver heating, cooling and electricity. It is being gradually chosen by citizens to cover different scale of heat and power needs. The FCH JU supported project ene.field will deploy up to 1,000 residential fuel cell Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) installations, across 12 key Member States. It represents a step change in the volume of fuel cell micro-CHP (micro FC-CHP) deployment in Europe and a meaningful step... Read more
A Joint Workshop between the FCH JU and Ten-T, the European Programme for heavy infrastructure “Connecting Europe” (CEF) took place in Riga on the 23 June 2015. This was the first showcase of the new “Innovation Pipeline” concept integrating the main agenda of the TEN-T days. With the presence of Mrs Violota Bulc, Commissioner of Transport and Nils Ušakovs, Mayor of Riga, the workshop emphasized the readiness of the technology. And gathered more than 30 stakeholders... Read more
  The joint workshop between FCH JU and DG Move is approaching. It will be held on the Tuesday 23 June from 14.30 to 17.00. This session is based on the pipeline concept that will be presented at the general innovation session of Monday morning, and will, as a first example, establish a specific innovation pipeline for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen technology .   Innovation Pipelines, a new concept in the TEN-T days 2015 Innovation Pipelines are introduced by the European... Read more
The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking is organising a session as part of the main programme of the High-level Policy Conference of the EU Sustainable Energy Week on Thursday, 18 June from 09.00 - 10.30 at  the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. The session entitled “Public Private Partnership as a tool to accelerate energy innovation” will bring together stakeholders from business, policy, research, regions and other to highlight the role of the public-private partnership... Read more
On the 7 May 2015, the FCH JU held a Public Information Session as regards with the new call 2015. This second Info-Day under Horizon 2020 focused on outlining the new topics for proposals as described in the Annual Work Plan 2015, as well as detailing rules framing submission of proposals and evaluation procedure.  Presentations can be found hereunder: Welcome address and introduction to FCH 2 JU – J.L. DELPLANCKE: Presentation AWP2015 – Transport pillar & Overarching... Read more
The first Smart Specialisation workshop in the domain of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen took place on the on 22 and 23 April 2015 at the Hôtel de Région in Lyon, France. It was organised by the FCH JU in collaboration with CEA and the JRC Smart Specialization Platform, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), and hosted by Région Rhône-Alpe With a significant participation and an audience varying from industry representatives, research and regional authorities, the workshop led... Read more
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