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FCH-JU Call for Proposals 2012 Public Information Session and Brokerage

9 Feb - 9 Feb, 2012

NEW-IG and N.ERGHY invite all parties interested in responding to the FCH JU Call for proposals 2012 to participate in the Public Information Session and Brokerage event 2012.
The event will take place on 9th of February 2012 in the premises of the FCH JU Programme Office, avenue de la Toison d’Or 56-60, Brussels. 
The FCH JU will introduce the day in a Public Information Session on the 2012 Call for proposals (to be published mid-January). The session will cover the topics of this year’s call, processes, rules for submission of proposals as well as other useful information for participants.
The day will then continue with a Brokerage event co-organised by the Industry Grouping (NEW-IG) and the Research Grouping (N.ERGHY) of the FCH Joint Undertaking. Sessions will be organised by application areas and topics in order to facilitate concrete discussions and targeted networking. Each specific topic of the Call for proposals 2012 will be discussed twice to allow participants to take part in all discussions of their interest.

Workshop: Hydrogen Economy-Possibilities and Challenges for Hungary and the EU

29 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011

The Hungarian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association together with the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell National Technology Platform will be holding a workshop on 29 September 2011. The focus of the event will be to investigate into the possibilities as well as challenges of hydrogen economy in the EU and Hungary who currently sits at the EU Presidency chair. Marieke Reijalt, the executive director of EHA, will be giving an overview of the projects and policies on hydrogen in Europe. The Workshop will run between 9am and 4.30pm (Central European Time) in Budapest and will be available for live broadcasting to anyone interested. You can stream the workshop live by clicking here. You can get access to the complete program by referring to the downloads section of this post.

Association Française pour l’Hydrogène et les Piles à Combustible – AFHYPAC

July 27, 2011

The French Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Platform General Assembly on June 21st announced evolution of the Platform. HyPaC and the “Association Française de l’Hydrogène” will join their efforts to accelerate hydrogen and fuel cell technologies’ deployment in France.

HyLIFT-DEMO Project meeting in Denmark

July 27, 2011

On July 4th 2011 the HyLIFT-DEMO project held its second project meeting in Herning, Denmark. During the meeting project partners were able to exchange actions and future developments. The hosts, H2 Logic, gave a tour of their premises and presented the hydrogen fuel cell forklift truck prototype to be deployed with the project demonstration sites.

The HyLIFT-DEMO project will conduct a large scale demonstration of Fuel Cell Hydrogen (FCH) powered FLTs (Fork Lift Trucks), while building the business case to enable following deployment and introduction by 2013. This first small scale series production of FLT will seek to validate the value proposition and commercial and environmental targets by retrieving the data provided by the demonstration operation.

Survey: Identification, Preparation and Dissemination of Hydrogen Safety Facts to Regulators and Public Safety Officials

July 27, 2011

HyFACTS aims to develop and initiate dissemination of training material for Regulators and Public Safety Officials. An online survey has been created which participants may review and submit the appropriate data on the authorization procedures and training of officials in your designated country or region.

Successful EHA Annual General Assembly in Oslo!

21 Jun - 21 Jun, 2011

The 11th EHA Annual General Assembly that took place on June 21, 2011 at Akershus Fylkeskommune, left of the main entrance to Akershus Fylkeskommune. This edition featured at 11:30 Scandinavian national associations presenting the latest developments in their countries and Scandinavain industries were invited to showcase their latest hydrogen and fuel cell system solutions. The meeting concluded with a luncheon and a tour program in the afternoon visiting the Oslo electro-mobility projects including the hydrogen transport demo sites.

See downloads for presentations from the full day of events.

European Parliament Seminar: Joint seminar on youth employment

30 Jun - 30 Jun, 2011

On June 30th the the employment committee of the European parliament, hosted a seminar “What is Europe doing for youth employment?”.
EHA took the opportunity to ask the panel of speakers in light of the activities of the HyPROFESSIONALS project, of the EU’s plans to address the changing demands in the new innovative job markets, such as hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

International Conference on Hydrogen Production (ICH2P-11)- Thessaloniki

June 24, 2011

This June 19-22 the ICH2P-11 took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. EHA took part in the event presenting our activities and the various EU funded projects that are currently taking place in Europe.
The event provided for a great opportunity to stimulate the Greek Hydrogen Community and thus communication has begun to extend the EHA network to include Greece.

Future Transport Fuels Group includes EHA

June 5, 2011

EHA is representing the European hydrogen industry in recent meetings of the Future Transport Fuels Expert Group. The Group has taken an advising role to the European Commission on the development of political strategies and concrete measure aiming at substituting fossil oil as transport fuel.

Strategic Transport Technology Plan Stakeholders meeting and consultation

May 27, 2011

The EHA participated in the Stakeholders Meeting that was organized by DG MOVE to present the EU efforts in establishing a Strategic Transport Technology Plan (STTP)  on May 24, 2010.  The STTP is scheduled to be published by mid 2011.