Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI)
IPCEI stands for ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’.
An IPCEI is a European project in a key strategic value chain that consists of several company projects from various EU Member States. An IPCEI contributes to strategic European goals such as growth, employment and competitiveness of the European Union industry and economy and is funded by state aid.
IPCEIs make it possible to bring together knowledge, expertise, financial resources and economic actors throughout the Union, so as to overcome important market or systemic failures and societal challenges which could not otherwise be addressed.
The four IPCEIs on Hydrogen contribute to a powerful value chain for renewable hydrogen at low costs, as well as to the objectives of key EU policy.
FBK's IPCEI PROJECTS
IPCEI Hy2Tech pursues numerous joint objectives which consider different aspects of the hydrogen value chain such as the scaling up of production capacity for electrolysers, fuel cells, key enabling technologies and critical components, as well as the improvement of hydrogen storing capacity in underground porous structures, to arrive to the establishment of a large-scale First Industrial Deployment of innovative hydrogen technologies in order to capitalize on the RDI efforts made in these fields and unlock vast decarbonisation potential.
The Center for Sustainable Energy at FBK is setting-up a large-scale testing facility for R&D&I of hydrogen technologies that will support research, development and innovation activities of European stakeholders and fostering real-life testing in relevant conditions and reducing costs. Thus, FBK will support the enabling and speeding-up of the large-scale deployment of hydrogen technologies for enterprises.
At the time the project was approved by the European Commission, it involved 41 projects from 35 companies. These projects were submitted by 15 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler – through its Center for Sustainable Energy – is involved in the Hy2Tech project as Associated Partner.
ORION: Open R&D&I facility on nOvel hydrogeN technology
With the ORION project, the Center for Sustainable Energy at FBK proposes the creation of a multi-scale development, testing and validation infrastructure for R&D&I activities for hydrogen technologies that will provide support with research, development and innovation activities to European companies, promote the development of components/systems for the H2 sector, carry out tests in real conditions aimed at reducing direct and indirect costs, enable and accelerate the large-scale deployment of hydrogen technologies and activate the strategic European supply chain.
For more information about the project, visit the dedicated page on Center for Sustainable Energy website.
Scientific contact
Center for Sustainable Energy
Luigi Crema
Director Center for Sustainable Energy
[email protected]
Center for Sustainable Energy
Matteo Testi
Head of Unit Hydrogen technologies & Resilient Energy Systems
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This project is funded by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy in the framework of the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) Hydrogen Technology [IPCEI Hy2Tech – CUP: B63C23000690009]. The IPCEI Hydrogen Technology is also funded by public authorities from Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain.
