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🌍 SOMMER 12-Month Consortium Meeting 🌟 On 28–29 November 2024, the SOMMER project team gathered at hte GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany, for the 12-Month Consortium Meeting. This milestone event brought together the consortium members to review progress, share insights, and map out the next steps for advancing the membrane technology for sustainable syngas production. ☀️ Our innovative approach uses concentrated sunlight to drive CO2 and H2O conversion at temperatures below 1,500°C. This enables the efficient transformation of unavoidable CO2 emissions into valuable chemical raw materials. A big thank you to the hte team for being such great hosts—it was truly appreciated! Another big thank you goes to all participants for their contributions and commitment to this project. Together, we’re forging a path toward a CO2 circular economy.🌿 DLR Institut für Future Fuels, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), IREC - Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya), hte GmbH, CSIC, Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH, TITAN Cement Group, BASF #Sustainability #Innovation #Syngas #CircularEconomy #CleanTech #FundedbyEU

🚀 Stowarzyszenie Zachodniopomorski Klaster Chemiczny "Zielona Chemia" - the Green Chemistry Cluster Promotes the Project “Professionals and their Skills in the Hydrogen Sector” at the H2 Conference in Szczecin! During the H2 Szczecin conference, the West Pomeranian Chemical Cluster “Green Chemistry” is presenting its latest project under the Erasmus+ program, titled “Professionals and their Skills in the Hydrogen Sector.” 🌱 Green Chemistry on the International Stage The Green Chemistry Cluster, the only organization in Poland representing the chemical and biotechnology sectors, has been actively promoting the development of innovative technologies for years. Since 2007, we have completed 46 projects, including 14 international initiatives. With the involvement of over 178 companies and numerous academic institutions, we provide a strong foundation for economic transformation. This EU-funded project was developed in collaboration with international partners: 🔹 EDU SMART TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED (Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇪🇺) Aleksandra Marcinkowska 🔹 FERI FUNDACJA EDUKACJI ROZWOJU I INNOWACJI 🇵🇱 dr Aleksandra Ścibich-Kopiec 🔹 European Chemical Regions Network 🇧🇪 Monika Bańka Why Hydrogen? Hydrogen is a key component of the European Green Deal and one of the most critical technologies for the future. Its development is essential for achieving Europe’s climate neutrality goals, and the demand for skilled professionals in the hydrogen sector is growing rapidly. To address these needs, our project aims to: 1️⃣ Map professions in the hydrogen sector (Job Map). 2️⃣ Define the key competencies required in new roles (Competence Framework). 3️⃣ Develop and test a training program for SMEs. Benefits for the Industry The project supports the development of professional skills in hydrogen technology, contributing to: ✅ Enhancing qualifications of SME staff. ✅ Boosting the competitiveness of European companies. ✅ Supporting the green energy transition. We invite all interested parties to collaborate with us and help shape Europe’s hydrogen future together. 🌍 Join us in building a sustainable future! #ErasmusPlus #HydrogenEconomy #GreenChemistry #ZielonaChemia #H2Szczecin #Innovation #GreenEnergy

Among our objectives until the end of the project, ARENHA’s consortium plans to complete the integration and validation of the ammonia-based energy storage system, laying the groundwork for the end of the project to enable this chemical compound to facilitate the implementation of systems for transporting #greenhydrogen. 💻 https://arenha.eu/ #ARENHA #ammonia #greenammonia #storagesystem #energy Eindhoven University of Technology   Proton Ventures   TECNALIA Research & Innovation   CNH2 - Centro Nacional del Hidrógeno  DTU - Technical University of Denmark  Fraunhofer IKTS   STFC   Elcogen   H2SITE   Stellantis   ENGIE   Université d'Orléans

👥 On 17 and 18 June, the Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz hosted the fourth on-site project meeting of the EU-funded Power2Hype Project in Linz. Our colleagues Johannes Lindorfer, Valerie Rodin and Hannah Aster attended the meeting. 📊🌍 In total, 11 project partners from 6 European countries presented their status of work and discussed further steps to go within the next project months. 🔬 Within the project, a sustainable electrochemical production process for hydrogen peroxide is developed. The Energieinstitut an der JKU Linz is responsible for the techno-economic and ecological analyses as well as market rollout and potential analyses. Follow our path at: https://www.power2hype.eu/ 👏 Many thanks to all project partners for their participation and the constructive discussions! We are looking forward to another 2.5 years of working together on the project – from fundamental research to demo implementation! Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik IGB | Wageningen University & Research | SGL Carbon | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg |Diaccon GmbH | Tecnicas Reunidas | IRIS Technology Solutions | Solvay | Syensqo | LOBA #HorizonEurope | #HydrogenPeroxide | #H2O2 | #electrochemical ©Power2Hype

🌿 Presenting the project ! 1st presentation : CIEMAT: Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research CIEMAT is a public governmental research institution with more than 30 years of accumulated experience in hydrogen technologies. 👉 The main objectives focus on the specification, identification and monitoring of deployment technologies in accordance with the objectives of national and international strategic documents and roadmaps. Different research groups in the Centre have contributed in recent decades in complementary research areas: hydrogen production from renewable energies wastes and other catalytic processes, hydrogen upgrading, purification and storage, electrolysers and fuel cells 🔋. CIEMAT's multidisciplinary team covers the entire value chain of these technologies, from production to use, which represents a unique opportunity to be a key player on the national scene, with special emphasis on the training of postgraduate students.  It is heavily involved in the design, development and coordination of training projects, mainly developing scientific and technical training programmes to increase the new skills and competences of professionals contributing to sustainable development. 🌾 Materiales Funcionales para Tecnologías del Hidrógeno #Hydrogen #H2 #Innovation #Spain #Research #H2Excellence #Erasmus+

🌟 Welcome to OREBA III: Shaping the Future of Rechargeable Battery Technology 🌟 Join us for the Third International Conference on Olivines for Rechargeable Batteries (OREBA III), taking place July 6–8, 2025, in Montreal, Canada! This premier global event will gather leading scientists, industry experts, and policymakers to explore the frontline advancements in safe, sustainable cathode materials such as LiFe(1-x)MnxPO4 (LMFP), LiNiPO4 (LNP), LiCOPO4 (LCP). Why Attend? 🔋 Discover breakthroughs revolutionizing battery technology and the energy storage industry. 🤝 Connect with top professionals and collaborate on transformative projects. 🌍 Learn about innovations in scalable, sustainable battery solutions that are reshaping our energy future. Honoring Dr. John B. Goodenough We are proud to celebrate the enduring legacy of Dr. John B. Goodenough, a true pioneer in the field of energy storage. His transformative work on LiFePO4 cathodes has revolutionized lithium-ion battery technology, providing safer, more sustainable solutions that continue to drive progress in electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. Dr. Goodenough’s visionary insights remain a cornerstone of battery science, inspiring generations of researchers. At OREBA III, we honor his memory by advancing the innovation and sustainability he championed. 🚀 225 days to go! Mark your calendar and be part of the conversation shaping the future of energy storage. For more details, visit https://oreba3.ca/. #OREBAIII #BatteryTechnology #EnergyStorage #Sustainability #JohnBGoodenough #Innovation #LiFePO4 #Montreal #VoltAge #CMEConcordia

A two-day mission focused on innovation in the hydrogen value chain was organized at RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Aachen city and Jülich Research Center on November 27-28 by IIS e-WallonHY, Cluster TWEED, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and Wallonia Export & Investment Agency (AWEX).   The Walloon delegation included 22 representatives from H2 technology companies (John Cockerill, H2, H2WIN SA, BEBLUE Cryotech SA, BTD Manufacturing, and JEMA SA), universities and research centers (ULiège, UNamur, Cenaero, and CRM Group), District Cleantech Charleroi, WBI, AWEX, and NCP Wallonie. We met with 20 colleagues from RWTH Aachen, Jülich Research Center, NRW.Energy4Climate, Stadt Aachen, HydrogenHub Aachen, and Helmholtz Hydrogen Cluster H2.   On the first day, we visited the Center for Mobile Propulsion at RWTH Aachen and participated in three working groups to address key issues related to lifetime performance, material characterization, and production of hydrogen technologies and components. In the evening, the city of Aachen hosted a networking dinner themed “European Hydrogen Valley: Cross-Border Collaboration as an Answer.”   On the second day, we toured the Jülich Research Center, including the Jülich Living Lab Energy Campus and the electrochemical process engineering facilities at the Institute for Energy Technology (IET), including test station for PEM electrolysis and coating technologies for electrochemical conversion systems (electrolyzers, fuel cells). We continued our working group sessions to explore collaboration opportunities between Aachen, Jülich, and Wallonia on the (lifetime, material, and production) topics of the inspiring breadcrumb of this mission. Presentations by NCP Wallonia and the Jülich EU Affairs Manager on European project calls were also part of the agenda. The next step is to further develop our draft proposals and project teams to continue this collaborative work.   We extend our sincere thanks to all the German and Walloon organizers and participants who contributed to the success of these two days! #CRMGroup #Innovation #Hydrogen #S3 #Forabetterfuture #IIS

🎊🥂𝗭-𝗧-𝗚 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆   Besides science and technology development and deployment in the field of hydrogen, HyCentA Research GmbH also takes part in studying the economical and societal impacts of a growing hydrogen economy in an international as well as in a regional context. Hydrogen will have a major impact on a future sustainable and climate-friendly economy and, therefore, various stakeholders and society as a whole. 📈 Within the inter-university platform 𝐙𝐮𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐭 – 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐤 – 𝐆𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐟𝐭 (future – technology – society, Z-T-G) the Science, Technology and Society Unit at the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science at the Graz University of Technology, the Department of Environmental System Sciences at the University of Graz, the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz, and HyCentA work together in the project “𝑯𝒚𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒂: 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 (𝒁-𝑻-𝑮 𝟎𝟎𝟐)”. 💡Specifically, the following questions will be addressed: ❔What are the different priorities of the meanwhile 40 national hydrogen strategies worldwide? How might the international hydrogen landscape look like by 2040? ❔How can the interaction of international developments be described and its consequences - economic, social, ecological - be estimated? ❔What synergies can be identified between potential future paths in the field of hydrogen and Styrian R&D&I activities? In view of the foreseeable international developments, what is needed for Styria to establish itself sustainably in the international arena? As in basically all processes of socio-technical change, different logics - and thus different visions of the future - come together in the use of hydrogen. The aim of this project is to map them systematically and to confront them critically with considerations of feasibility. The central result is therefore the description and evaluation of potential future paths for the Styrian region as well as the comparison of these with current R&D&I activities and with developments in the larger context. On March 1st, a day that accidentally, but tellingly also marks the World Futures Day, Z-T-G had its first anniversary which was used to celebrate the first successful year of this research platform and to take a glimpse into what the future of not only hydrogen might bring to us. ✅ #ZTG #Innovation #Hydrogen #GreenHydrogen #Research

🚀 Stowarzyszenie Zachodniopomorski Klaster Chemiczny "Zielona Chemia" - the Green Chemistry Cluster Promotes the Project “Professionals and their Skills in the Hydrogen Sector” at the H2 Conference in Szczecin! During the H2 Szczecin conference, the West Pomeranian Chemical Cluster “Green Chemistry” is presenting its latest project under the Erasmus+ program, titled “Professionals and their Skills in the Hydrogen Sector.” 🌱 Green Chemistry on the International Stage The Green Chemistry Cluster, the only organization in Poland representing the chemical and biotechnology sectors, has been actively promoting the development of innovative technologies for years. Since 2007, we have completed 46 projects, including 14 international initiatives. With the involvement of over 178 companies and numerous academic institutions, we provide a strong foundation for economic transformation. This EU-funded project was developed in collaboration with international partners: 🔹 EDU SMART TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED (Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇪🇺) Aleksandra Marcinkowska 🔹 FERI FUNDACJA EDUKACJI ROZWOJU I INNOWACJI 🇵🇱 dr Aleksandra Ścibich-Kopiec 🔹 European Chemical Regions Network 🇧🇪 Monika Bańka Why Hydrogen? Hydrogen is a key component of the European Green Deal and one of the most critical technologies for the future. Its development is essential for achieving Europe’s climate neutrality goals, and the demand for skilled professionals in the hydrogen sector is growing rapidly. To address these needs, our project aims to: 1️⃣ Map professions in the hydrogen sector (Job Map). 2️⃣ Define the key competencies required in new roles (Competence Framework). 3️⃣ Develop and test a training program for SMEs. Benefits for the Industry The project supports the development of professional skills in hydrogen technology, contributing to: ✅ Enhancing qualifications of SME staff. ✅ Boosting the competitiveness of European companies. ✅ Supporting the green energy transition. We invite all interested parties to collaborate with us and help shape Europe’s hydrogen future together. 🌍 Join us in building a sustainable future! #ErasmusPlus #HydrogenEconomy #GreenChemistry #ZielonaChemia #H2Szczecin #Innovation #GreenEnergy

Today, on our second day at European Hydrogen Week, we are presenting the training materials developed by our project. 🌍💡 Pernille Gøtz from DTU - Technical University of Denmark will explain how to use the Hydrogen Game 🎮 and how to access other training materials. 📚✨ We look forward to meeting you! 🤝 #GreenSkillsforH2 is an initiative co-financed by the European Commission #ErasmusPlus programme led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in partnership with The Adecco Group | Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. | Advent Technologies A/S | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Baker Hughes | CluBE-Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia | Communication Package | Drenthe College | DTU - Technical University of Denmark | Enerdata | Fundación Hidrógeno Aragón | France Hydrogène | Hydrogen Europe | Hydrogen Europe Research | Holden, A Chart Industries Company | ICSI Energy, the former National Center for Hydrogen & Fuel Cells | Acad. Evgeni Budevski Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems IEES-BAS | industriAll Europe | Institute for sustainable transition and development | Nel Hydrogen | NHL Stenden | University of Galway / Politecnico di Torino | Regional Pomeranian Chamber of Commerce / Cluster of Hydrogen Technologies | Schuman Associates | Skillnet Ireland | Snam S.p.A. / SolarPower Europe / Tartu Rakenduslik Kolledž (Tartu Vocational College) | Tartu Regional Energy Agency | Università per Stranieri di Perugia | WindEurope