InteractionSeeds partners have joined forces to facilitate and connect different worlds (industry, citizens, arts) through the development of a repository of 50+ locally proven and easy to replicate interaction schemes. The repository (WP1), expected to turn into a platform at exploitation stage, will ultimately take the form of a two-sided platform connecting a network of stakeholders: -Providers of societal and cultural interaction schemes, that have proven their value and that have a potential for replicability beyond their geographic range; -Organisations having missions in fostering connections between industry, society and art willing to explore, adapt and test locally proven interaction schemes. During the project, 20+ test cases of interaction schemes will be implemented (WP4), to support R&I knowledge valorisation. These test cases will notably involve R&I stakeholders previously engaged and trained (thanks to the development of a training kit - WP2). Protocol for the test cases implemented will be designed and adapted to the local context in WP3. Finally, a set of recommendations (WP4) on why and how to facilitate the implementation of new test cases. These recommendations will be largely disseminated to 100+ R&I representative stakeholders (such as clusters, EDIH, incubators etc.) to support the project's replicability and large use of the repository.

The transition to a hydrogen-based economy necessitates a paradigm shift in design approaches. Traditional engineering practices must be augmented with a holistic perspective that considers safety, environmental, social, and economic principles in the whole life cycle of the target system. The safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) approach, recently recommended at the EU level in a specific framework, is the highest standard to reduce the negative life cycle impacts directly in the design phase. GUESS-WHy project aims to improve the sustainability and safety of the fuel cell and hydrogen (FCH) systems by promoting the SSbD methodology. GUESS-WHy will develop and publish seven SSbD guidelines of seven different FCH systems, covering different technology readiness level (TRL) along the hydrogen value chain (production, storage and utilization). Selected systems are (5+2): PEM electrolyzer, SOFC system, Alkaline electrolyzer, metal hydrides storage, H2 gas turbine plus PEM-FC and SOE electrolyzer based on the existing sustainable-by-design guidelines. The SSbD guidelines provide the impact assessment of the system as well as the recommendations and products concepts for safe and sustainable impact improvements along the whole life cycle. The project will start collecting inputs from previous projects, stakeholders and literature. The guidelines will be developed following a standard process: product definition, initial impact assessment, idea generation and scenario and benchmark analysis. Dissemination and exploitation will target both the regulatory field and the industrial stakeholders to promote the utilization of the guidelines. GUESS-WHy consortium is composed of universities and research centers, expert in safety and sustainability assessments, and by private companies with expertise in the design and production of FCH systems. GUESS-WHy is supported by a network of public bodies and industries interested in providing inputs and disseminating project results.

The overarching objective of the H2MARINE project is to design, build, test and validate two (2) PEM stacks generating 250 - 300 kW electric power designed for marine applications. The H2MARINE project takes a top-down approach, building on a proof of concept of two PEM stacks that are developed in the EU and Switzerland. The H2MARINE project will: Identify the requirements for the tests and conditions as well as load curves that the FC stacks will have to be tested against with the integrated knowledge of a major ship building industry (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems) and ship owners (Cleos) representing Gaslog, Drylog Ltd. And Olympic Shipping (totaling more than 100 large ships). - Both PowerCell and EHGroup stack manufactures will benefit from a great consortium surrounding their development, testing and upscaling with unique testing facilities (Beyond Gravity, ZSW, Greenerity, University of Freiburg), industrial partners like DANA, upscaling capacities of stacks by CERTH, EPFL and novel diagnostics development by VTT. This will allow them to enhance the state of the art (SoA) of PEMFC stacks, advance and scale up the system to reach ambitious targets set in the call which will be disseminated by CLUBE member of numerous FCH projects. - Test the proposed solutions in relevant environment/ecosystem, which are designed to fully represent the actual implementation conditions. - Design the stack modules in an optimum manner for up-scaling up to 10MW power train systems. - Test several diagnostics for the stack and overall system integrity as well as for the health status prognosis of critical components. - Assess the technology and economic feasibility of the solution, in order to know its valuable end-use, which will allow the partners to research the potential market/s and identification of the best opportunities.

"TEAMIT+ aims to help change the pedagogical model on entrepreneurship and innovation education. Until now, these fields have been focused on the ""Individual Entrepreneur"" and on innovation that is mainly evaluated on the market. With TEAMIT+ we want to show in the long term that in order to meet the objectives of sustainable development, entrepreneurship and innovation must not only be thought differently but also taught differently. Entrepreneurship must become an entrepreneurship that responds to the objectives of sustainable development, it must promote equality and in particular by defending cooperative values. Innovation must now be based not only on market potential but also on responses to environmental and climate issues. In this perspective, the creativity methods taught must take into account the social and environmental benefits of innovation. To achieve this the project will make a territorial diagnosis of European regions to identify societal and economic challenges and understand the situation of different territories. This information will be used to create a novel ""Learning by creating"" learning model that will be later implemented in the trainning programme. TEAMIT+ includes two editions of the programme which consist on three modules in which participants (young people from 16-30 years from VET and HE, jobseekers and imigrants) will learn about climate change awareness and environmental issues, impact innovation and teampreneurship. The consortium will also work in the replicability of the course and will create a replicability guidelile to facilite the replication by other educational centres. In the 2 editions of the course more than 1.300 young people will be benefited as well as other other stakeholders like companies (>80). Main results of the project: TEAMIT+ trainning programme, replication guideline, white book, EU policy recomendation, commitment bookelts, trained volunteer, 20 business projects and entrepreneurs network."

The goal of 24_7 ZEN is to design and build a high performing 33/100kW scale rSOC power balancing plant and demonstrate its compatibility with the electricity and gas grids. The multidisciplinary consortium behind this project has been spearheading innovations in the energy management and are pioneers on the rSOC systems development. Together, they cover every step of the value chain from enhanced materials on the cell level (POLITO, FORTH, IREC), fully operational rSOC system (SP_CH, SP_IT, OST) fully integrated, plug and play ecosystem for grid interconnection (INER, BOS, CERTH), renewable energy generation (EUNICE), transmission system operator (DESFA) and international quality assurance (KIWA). The ecosystems’ ability to optimize efficient routes of Power to Gas to Power, using H2 or NG as fuel and inject H2 into the grid, transition in <30 minutes and round trip efficiency of 45% will be demonstrated while ensuring compliance with standards and safety regulations. Finally, the consortium count on well-connected organizations in the European hydrogen, electricity and grid services sector (HSLU, CLUBE) that ensures the dissemination of the developed new business models and practices for renewable energy storage, including new concepts for the delivery of green hydrogen. This consortium will develop and validate an ecosystem that can be efficiently scaled and replicated to multi-MW scale installations. Further knowledge on how to improve the performance of rSOC (degradation rates of 0.4%/kh for 1000h, current densities of 1.5A/cm2 in both modes) and make them more cost competitive (by reducing CAPEX from 6000€/kW to 3500€/kW) will be generated. At the end of the project, new and viable scenarios to provide grid balancing and supply green hydrogen will be presented by means of a deep techno-economic analysis. By advancing rSOC towards commercial exploitation, the renewable hydrogen deployment required for a climate neutral Europe will be one step closer.