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  • 12 May - The FCH JU is taking part in the Open day of the EU institutions and is present on 12 May in the Berlaymont Building of the European Commission, from 10 am till 18 pm. It will also display a fuel cell and hydrogen car, to show the technology and its promises.    
  • FCH JU Call 2012: Topic SP1-JTI-FCH.2012.5.1 : Hydrogen safety sensors EU/US Common topic This topic introduces as eligibility criteria that “Any proposal submitted to the FCH JU will be eligible only if coordinated with a US proposal (…). This coordination should be balanced in terms of the R&D efforts deployed by the EU and US respectively”. The DoE has just informed the...
  • 23-27 April 2012 The Fuel cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking took part as exhibitor, for the first time, at the Hannover Messe from 23 to 27 April 2012, as part of the Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells, part of the Energy trade fair. This year, 5.000 exhibitors from 69 nations participated at Hannover Messe 2012, with 1.100 exhibitors especially for the Energy trade fair. 130 exhibitors...
  • 18 January 2012, London- A ground breaking project to ensure the UK is well positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles has been launched today. The new programme – UKH2Mobility – brings together three Government Departments and industrial participants from the utility, gas, infrastructure and global car manufacturing sectors. The group will...
  • 17 January 2012- € 150 million's worth have been allocated for the support of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies through research and demonstration projects, with € 77, 5 million from the European Commission matched by in-kind contributions from industry and research organisations. The 2012 call covers 31 topics divided into 5 application areas: transportation and refuelling...
  •             6 December 2011- Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, along with Vice President Antonio Tajani, presented the first EU Women Innovators Prize in Brussels. The EU Women Innovators Prize celebrates women innovators who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The...
  • 30 November 2011- The FCH JU organised its 4th Stakeholders’ General Assembly, in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2011. The first day of the 2011 Stakeholders’ General Assembly was devoted to a Programme Review. The progress of the portfolio of projects- close to 60 projects dedicated to fuel cells and hydrogen have been assessed in relation to...
  • 24 October 2011- the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) is launching another call to to select trainees for intake in the 1st half of 2012. The FCH JU has a traineeship programme. The programme gives trainees an understanding of the JU and its role within the activities of the European Union, enables them to acquire practical knowledge of the FCH JU and its regulatory...
  • 12 Oct 2011 The FCH JU launched an open procedure for concluding multiple framework contracts for conducting studies on the commercialisation of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies and competing technologies. Applicants are invited to submit simultaneously a tender for the framework contract and for the first study on buses. The maximum overall budget for the whole duration of the...
  • 6 September 2011- The European Commission published on 20th of July a topic ENERGY.2012.10.2.1: Future and Emerging Technologies. This topic open in call FP7-ENERGY-2012-1 aims at ensuring a genuine chance for "emerging ideas". Materials research is probably the most important element for the development of the necessary technologies needed to provide a clean, reliable supply of...