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Programme Name
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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Call
Summary
The project should focus on converting those ship types that have the highest impact on emissions. Nevertheless, it is expected that the developed solutions are also applicable to other vessel types and should be adaptable to different operations and associated power and energy consumption profiles. System dimensioning and integration should therefore be based on representative measurement data, allowing for optimal operations and efficient fuel consumption. A systematic retrofit design approach should result in general guidelines or advice for retrofitting inland vessels.
Detailed Call Description
First demonstrators funded by previous FCH-JU projects, as well as other projects in recent years, have primarily focused on the demonstration of technical feasibility of fuel cells on board inland vessels. A large-scale demonstration is now required to further the uptake of fuel cells and hydrogen in this sector. This flagship project should include:
- at least 5 inland vessels (retrofitting and/or new build), with FC power above 500kW and preferably at 1 MW scale;
- at least 2 vessel types;
- 2 vessels should operate for at least 2 years, and the others for at least 1 year;
- vessels that should be able to bunker hydrogen in at least 2 different ports;
- creating a corridor, connecting to hydrogen infrastructure, aligned with the TEN-T network;
- preferably one vessel is a (self-propelled) hydrogen bunker barge, which can bunker vessels alongside while in transit, at anchorage, or at the pier;
- An overall plan for deployment (with different stages) that goes beyond the timeline of this project should be foreseen. The needs of support for later stages should be justified in view of closing the funding gap in a dynamic environment where hydrogen shipping becomes increasingly competitive with incumbent technologies.
- A detailed data monitoring strategy (with minimum parameters to be monitored) that would allow evaluate the overall financial, environmental and technical performance of each of the vessel to be deployed in the project in sufficient detail. Costs related to the monitoring equipment are eligible.
The maximum Clean Hydrogen JU contribution that may be requested is € 15,00 million – proposals requesting Clean Hydrogen JU contributions above this amount will not be evaluated.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Fisheries/ Aquaculture and Maritime Policy
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
At least one partner in the consortium must be a member of either Hydrogen Europe or Hydrogen Europe Research.
Applicants may consider:
- additional synergies with other Programmes (e.g. European Structural and Investment Funds, Recovery and Resilience Facility, Just Transition Fund, Connecting Europe Facility, Innovation Fund, Modernisation Fund, LIFE, etc.
- clustering with other projects within Horizon Europe or funded under other EU, national or regional programmes,
- or having loans through the EIB or other promotional or commercial banks.