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Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
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Summary
The scope of this topic is to develop, deploy and demonstrate a large-scale hydrogen valley with interlinkages to other places of hydrogen production and/or consumptions outside its boundaries.
Detailed Call Description
A Hydrogen Valley is a defined geographical area where hydrogen serves more than one end sector or application in mobility, industry and energy. They typically comprise a multi-million euro investment and cover all necessary steps in the hydrogen value chain, from production (and often even dedicated renewable electricity production) to subsequent storage and its transport & distribution to various off-takers. Whilst most of the projects are located in Europe, over the past years, Hydrogen Valleys have gone global, with new projects emerging worldwide.
Hydrogen Valleys are starting to form first regional “hydrogen economies”. It is however still necessary to accelerate the deployment of additional Hydrogen Valleys already now in view of the objectives of the European hydrogen strategy. To do this it is necessary to have testbed projects to act as first real-life cases for piloting global hydrogen markets. These projects needs to be expanded in scale to demonstrate the full range of benefits from the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. This topic addresses this need by calling for a Hydrogen Valley of a large scale with high levels of hydrogen production. It also intends to stimulate the activation of hydrogen markets that go beyond the boundaries the Hydrogen Valley location.
The size and other characteristics are given further below. To increase the impact, it is encouraged to accommodate these requirements across two separate interconnected valleys located in different intra-EU regions whether within the same Member State/Associated country or not; in such cases, exchange of hydrogen is expected to exceed 20% of the overall annual production in order to have a meaningful impact, and individual regions would not be required to achieve the minimum project size of 5,000 tonnes/yr (outlined below) but would still be required to demonstrate minimum thresholds for percentages dedicated to end uses in various sectors as outlined below.
- Technical
- Size and characteristics of the Hydrogen Valley
- Hydrogen Markets
- Economic growth
(Further details in the funding&tenders page)
The maximum Clean Hydrogen JU contribution that may be requested is €8,00 million – proposals requesting Clean Hydrogen JU contributions above this amount will not be evaluated.
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Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Transport
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
At least one partner in the consortium must be a member of either Hydrogen Europe or Hydrogen Europe Research.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
For some topics, in line with the Clean Hydrogen JU SRIA, an additional eligibility criterion has been introduced to ensure that one partner in the consortium is a member of either Hydrogen Europe or Hydrogen Europe Research. This concerns topics targeting actions for large-scale demonstrations, flagship projects and strategic research actions, where the industrial and research partners of the Clean Hydrogen JU are considered to play a key role in accelerating the commercialisation of hydrogen technologies by being closely linked to the Clean Hydrogen JU constituency.