Project presentation to Regional Innovation Consortium (RO)
On 16th of May 2025, SE RDA organized a meeting with the members of the Regional Innovation Consortium, the body that endorse the Smart Specialisation Strategy of the Region - the policy instrument envisaged by HYPERION.
45 representatives of the local public authorities, universities and research institutions, private innovative companies, NGO’s from the SE Region, together with the HYPERION team and the staff from the Planning & Programming Department from SE RDA discussed on the revision of 2021-2027 Smart Specialisation Strategy by introducing a new smart specialization field that address Hydrogen.
During the meeting, HYPERION project was presented as well as the potential of the SE Region to become a pole for producing clean H2 using solar, wind and nuclear energy.
The conclusions of the meeting pointed out the following:
- Renewable energy involves the need to storage the energy
- Hydrogen leads to eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions
- Hydrogen is an energy vector
- Hydrogen is an integral and important component of the national energy ecosystem
- It is mandatory to train/develop specialists to use the H2 technology.