The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is launching a new hydrogen research call for proposals. A total of € 113.5 million will be made available through Horizon Europe for projects to cover Research & Innovation (R&I) activities across the whole hydrogen value chain.
Furthermore, an dditional €60 million (from the RePowerEU plan budget) will be used to support different activities (including topping-up of related call topics and a procurement to set-up and run a ‘Hydrogen Valleys Facility’ ) for increasing the number of Hydrogen Valleys across Europe.
We invite applications from partners across all EU and associated countries and we hope they will come with solutions that will bring us a step closer to a resilient and sustainable hydrogen economy
… said Mirela Atanasiu, Executive director a.i. , Clean Hydrogen Partnership
A total of 20 topics are part of the call for proposals, including 5 for Renewable Hydrogen Production, 5 for Hydrogen Storage and distribution, 4 for transport and 2 for heat and power. In addition, 2 topics will support Cross-cutting issues. This call also includes 2 Hydrogen Valleys topics.
The topics are grouped into 11 Research and Innovation Actions (RIA), 8 Innovation Actions (IA), and 1 Coordination and Support Action (CSA). Two of the Innovation Actions, on Hydrogen Valleys, are considered of strategic importance and are selected as flagship projects.
To remind, EMSA recently published its “Potential of Hydrogen as fuel for shipping” report, which presents an overview of hydrogen’s properties with descriptions of the production pathways, level of maturity and further developments.
