Awards
As usual, Clean Hydrogen Partnership rewarded its top projects and beneficiaries of funding for their excellent achievements, during an Awards ceremony held on 20 November.
The Awards include the following categories: Best Success Story and Best Innovation (for which the winner was chosen by public vote), Best Outreach, and the European H2Valleys of the Year. This year, we also featured the Women in H2 Innovation award, for outstanding achievements in research and innovation.
Categories
Best Innovation Award
The Clean Hydrogen Innovation Award demonstrates how collaboration between research, industry and policymakers in this European partnership is delivering world-class solutions and accelerating the energy transition to a decarbonised and greener world.
Each innovation (and innovator) shortlisted for this award shows clear examples of how Clean Hydrogen Partnership’s projects are making a difference in research and innovation. The project partners leading the winning innovation will receive the award.
Winner: Hydrogen power systems are on track for success
Project FCH2Rail
Partners leading the innovation: Centro Nacional de Experimentacion de Tecnologias de Hidrogeno y Pilas de Combustible Consorcio and Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A., on behalf of the consortium
Presented by Joanna Drake – Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission
Best Success Story Award
The selected success stories highlight the most important breakthroughs in different areas of the Hydrogen value chain and showcase how partnering research institutions, industry and policymakers in an European partnership creates synergies that allow for meaningful innovations in a challenging field.
Each story shows the Clean Hydrogen Partnership’s project portfolio approach to creating low-carbon and sustainable solutions and opening new markets for European solutions in fuel cell and clean hydrogen technologies.
As several projects are usually involved in each success story, the award belongs to all projects taking part in the winning success story.
Winner: Portable generators to power a range of activities
Project EVERYWH2ERE
Presented by Danica Maljković – Chair, Clean Hydrogen Partnership Governing Board
Best Outreach Award
The European Clean Partnership Best Outreach Award celebrates public engagement of our projects and aims to encourage beneficiaries of EU funding to communicate better about the project and the achievements. We value creativity, but also thoroughly planned communication strategies, in particular for public outreach. The winner of the Best Outreach Award is chosen by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership Programme Office.
Winner: Project Flagships
Presented by Valerie Bouillon-Delporte – Executive Director, Clean Hydrogen Partnership
European H2 Valley of the Year
Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its predecessor (FCH JU) have started working on the concept of H2 Valleys as early as 2017, when the Regions Initiative was launched. Since then, the concept has evolved, with multiple H2 Valleys being now funded annually. Hydrogen Valleys are generally identified at a global level by the H2V Platform under Mission Innovation.
Presently, the platform features almost 100 Hydrogen Valleys at different stages of development in 36 different countries. The breakthroughs in project implementation, outstanding efforts in coverage of the value-chain, hydrogen volume produced/used in the valley, stakeholders’ landscape and involvement as well as innovation level will be used as criteria to identify the Valleys of the Year in Europe.
Winners: H2-Region Emsland & TRIERES - Greek Hydrogen Valley
Presented by Joanna Drake – Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission
Women in H2 Innovation
Clean Hydrogen Partnership will highlight the outstanding achievements and contributions made in the field of Hydrogen research and innovation by a female researcher.
2024 was the first edition of this award, given in collaboration with Women in Green Hydrogen.
Winner: Dr. Deborah Jones
Presented by Valerie Bouillon-Delporte – Executive Director, Clean Hydrogen Partnership & Alessia D'Addabbo – Women in Green Hydrogen
