HORIZON EUROPE JU – HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025 – 2025

Objectives

• To allow science-based decision making for policy makers and industry players
• Development of advanced cell, stack, and BoP components, including functional and structural materials exhibiting an improved performance and engineered to counteract degradation mechanisms
• Contributing to the EU’s net-zero strategy by providing technological guidelines
• Improvement of the perception of public towards hydrogen technologies, by ensuring a high visibility of the project and associated technologies to the local public and EU citizens, to connect initial demonstrations and to create synergies with existing energy infrastructure
• Support the industrialisation of European Fuel Cell technology
• Improvements to already conceptualised novel materials including electrocatalysts, electrodes, metallic interconnects, coatings, and seals enabling increased lifetime to the ensemble of both single cells and stacks
• Collecting information on differences in Member States regulations in permitting and licensing processes of hydrogen projects across the EU
• Extend the deployment of hydrogen and FC based powertrains to NRMM applications, thus establishing and consolidating a European supply chain for FC powertrains and components
• Maintain European leadership in electrolyser production and strengthen the European value chain through the ability to deliver high-quality stacks
• Strengthened European leadership in the exploration of natural hydrogen to identify and evaluate reserves and seek industrial production
• Development of innovative solutions for material supply and/or processing for catalyst layer deposition and lamination of Gas Diffusion Layer GDLs/sub-gaskets
• Reducing geopolitical risks relating to the development of clean technologies, including hydrogen technologies, in the EU
• To boost off-grid renewable electricity generation in offshore installations and areas adjacent to underground storage, islands, and remote areas
• Make hydrogen storage systems that are fit for purpose and that can reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of hydrogen supply across Europe available to industry
• Encouraging demonstrations that lead to broader local, regional, and Union-wide deployment in various transport sectors
• Anchorage of new demand for renewable hydrogen
• Provide breakthrough and game-changing technologies for hydrogen production by ammonia cracking
• Enhancing European leadership on hydrogen infrastructure solution based on compression technologies
• Optimised resource utilisation via integration with downstream processes, enabling the efficient utilisation of resources, such as waste heat or by-products, leading to overall process optimisation and reduced resource wastage

TOPICS: 

• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-02: Understanding emissions of PFAS from electrolysers and/ or fuel cells under product use
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-01: Improvements in lifetime and cost of low temperature electrolysers by introducing advanced materials and components in stacks and balance of plant
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-01: Simultaneous ionomer and iridium recycling
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-06-02: Small-scale Hydrogen Valley
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-04-01: Demonstration of stationary fuel cells in renewable energy communities
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-02: Improved lifetime and cost of high-temperature electrolysers by introducing innovative materials and components in stacks and BoP
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-03: Knowledge transfer and training of civil servants, safety officials, and permitting staff to improve safety assessment and licensing procedures across Europe
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-01: Configurable Fuel Cell Powertrain for Non-Road Mobile Machinery
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-03: Scale-up and Optimisation of manufacturing processes for electrolyser materials, cells, or stacks
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-07: Towards exploration and evaluation of European natural hydrogen potential
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-02: Scalable innovative processes for the production of PEMFC MEAs
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-06: Innovative hydrogen and solid carbon production from renewable gases/biogenic waste processes
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-04: Efficient electrolysis coupling with variable renewable electricity and/or heat integration
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-01: Development of mined, lined rock cavern for gaseous hydrogen storage
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-03: Reliable, efficient, scalable and lower cost 1 MW-scale PEMFC system for maritime applications
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-06-01: Large-scale Hydrogen Valley
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-03: Demonstration of scalable ammonia cracking technology
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-02: Development of cost effective and high-capacity compression solutions for hydrogen
• HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-05: Innovative co-electrolysis systems and integration with downstream processes

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• Total budget of the call: 184.500.000 euros
• Budget per topic:
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-02: 2 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-01: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-03: 7 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-05: 4 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-01: 4 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-01: 3.500.000 euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-02: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-07: 2 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-02: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-03-01: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-02: 4 million to 8 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-03: 4 million to 8 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-05-03: 1 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-02-03: 6 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-06-02: 9 million to 80 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-06-01: 20 million to 80 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-04-01: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-06: 8 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-CLEANH2-2025-01-04: 6 million euros
• Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs