The rapid development of the European hydrogen value chain over the coming years is expected to generate approximately 1 million highly skilled jobs by 2030, and up to 5.4 million by 2050. The Green Skills for Hydrogen Project (GreenSkillsforH2, funded by the ERASMUS+ programme) is contributing to the development of a skilled workforce in Europe for the emerging hydrogen economy by addressing the skills gap and providing training to boost the industry.

GreenSkillsforH2 will help meet REPowerEU2030 targets by accelerating the upskilling and reskilling of students and members of the workforce across Europe. 

Hydrogen Europe Research is part of the Consortium managing this initiative, which is led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has a total of 34 partners from 15 Member States of the European Union. These partners comprise six Work Packages (WP) that will jointly coordinate the various activities and tasks to be carried out throughout the life of the project.

HYPERION (funded by the Interreg EUROPE programme) supports European regions in the complex process of taking up advanced hydrogen solutions in various areas of their economic systems, as a move towards a smart and sustainable economic transition.

The goal of the project is to identify barriers to local hydrogen uptake and share best practices within regions to enable favorable policy changes for hydrogen activities.

Hydrogen Europe Research is participating in the project as an advisory partner, offering expertise on EU policies and hydrogen technologies to the eight regions involved.

SET4H2 is a Horizon Europe project focused on providing organisational, logistic and secretarial support to the newly formed Implementation Working Group on hydrogen under the SET Plan. This includes refining the IWG’s mission and identity, finalising the Implementation Plan and exploiting synergies with the activities of other SET Plan stakeholders and relevant European and international hydrogen initiatives.

The new IWG can build on the results already achieved in the ERA pilot initiative “Agenda Process on Green Hydrogen”, a comprehensive pan-European strategy-building process involving 30 European countries, and thus can achieve faster progress in implementing the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. The CSA supports the IWG in applying an integrated, systematic and interdisciplinary approach to address research needs, while considering the different starting conditions of European countries in the energy transition.

The Consortium consists of key players of the European Agenda Process and the SRIA as a whole.