The 2nd General Assembly of the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform

Back in 2003, the EU set up a Technology Platform, its first, dealing with hydrogen and fuel cells. With this topic becoming increasingly visible and ever more important, it was faced with the question of how to prioritise research and development issues. As a result, it set up a Technology Platform with the objective of providing advice on planning a European approach to the much-heralded hydrogen economy. The platform itself is supported by the efforts of key players (indeed a large number of players) from the fuel cell and hydrogen industry and interested participants.

This meeting, which is described in more detail in this report, was not quite the second annual meeting due to a delay of more than eighteen months since the last, looked at the recently-released strategic research agenda and what that should mean for European fuel cell and hydrogen activities. And, in terms of timing, it couldn’t be much better, as the EU builds up to the start of Framework 7, its next set of R&D activity.