National Hydrogen Technology Platform establishment and its already achieved results

Hydrogen technologies and their value chains are very diversified and a novel area, which affects, interconnects several sectors: companies, R&D institutions public authorities, have to cooperate in a well-coordinated way to proceed. In many cases establishment of completely new business models, legal regulation, technology development is necessary and all of these must be done preferably with international (mainly EU) cooperation. In Hungary there was no professional/institutional framework, which would be able to establish and manage this kind of cooperation in the field of hydrogen.
The main goals of the Platform are to identify and involve stakeholders who will contribute to the emergence and diffusion of hydrogen technologies in Hungary. The members will be also supporting the hydrogen-related national incentives and regulatory tools.
The Platform was initiated by the Centre for Natural Sciences, Valor Hungariae Ltd. and the Hungarian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. The primary stakeholders are from industry: companies who already have hydrogen solutions/services or have plans to develop these. Universities and R&D institutions are also important players who are active in the field of hydrogen and education; The government sector is also necessary to establish a supportive legal / administrative background for hydrogen. Other associations, clusters, NGOs are also members e.g: E-mobility Cluster, Shipping Innovation Cluster, Institute of Transport Sciences etc.