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Registration open for the EU Hydrogen Innovation Forum: Driving Competitiveness and Market Uptake with R&I
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Greg Kelsall
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Registration is now open for the EU Hydrogen Innovation Forum, a key event within European Hydrogen Week 2025, taking place October 2-3, 2025, at the Thon Hotel EU in Brussels. The forum will convene policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and investors to accelerate the development and deployment of clean hydrogen technologies, strengthen EU competitiveness, and drive the market uptake of innovative solutions.
The EU Hydrogen Innovation Forum is an opportunity to:
- Engage with leading experts shaping the future of hydrogen in Europe.
- Explore key strategic priorities driving the hydrogen agenda.
- Discover cutting-edge technologies and business models from Europe’s most promising hydrogen start-ups.
- Network with key stakeholders: policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and investors from across the hydrogen value chain.
The Forum will address critical topics including:
- Driving Europe’s Competitiveness and Market Uptake with R&I in Clean Hydrogen Technologies
- Unleashing the Power of Synergies
- Accelerating Green Growth: EU Start-Ups Driving Clean Hydrogen Solutions
- Skilling, upskilling, reskilling for a competitive industry
Attendance to the Innovation Forum is free of charge although the event will be ‘in person’ only.
And in a separate announcement from the EU, a Call for Applications for the Project Development Assistance (PDA) programme for Hydrogen Valleys is open until 19/09/2025, where projects located in the EU and in countries associated with Horizon Europe are eligible.
The PDA services consist of tailored expert assistance, free of charge, to help advance Hydrogen Valleys in commercial, technical, regulatory and valley governance aspects towards the Final Investment Decision (FID) and will be carried out by the consulting firm Roland Berger with its technical subcontractor Worley.
The application process is designed to be low-effort and can be completed in a short amount of time: The application documents to be handed in consist of a compilation of existing documents and the completion of a short application form.
Up to 15 PDAs in total will be awarded to eligible Hydrogen Valleys in two PDA tracks:
- PDA light (6 weeks): Support for early-stage projects to develop a pre-feasibility concept;