As an institutionalised public-private partnership, Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (JU) brings together the European Commission (the public sector), Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research (representing the hydrogen industries and hydrogen research community respectively) so as to bring together as many relevant actors as possible across the whole clean hydrogen value chain. It considers all sectors of the economy, but especially the hard-to-abate ones like transport and heavy industry.

In support of the European Green Deal, the Clean Hydrogen JU aims to accelerate development and deployment of European clean hydrogen technologies, contributing to a sustainable, decarbonised and fully integrated energy system. It contributes to the European climate neutrality goal by producing noticeable, quantifiable results towards the development and scaling up of hydrogen applications. This will help develop a number of hydrogen technologies, which are currently either not competitive or have a low technology readiness level, but are expected to contribute to the 2030 energy and climate targets and most importantly make the goal possible of climate neutrality by 2050.

The EU will support the Clean Hydrogen JU with €1 billion euro for the period 2021-2027, complemented by at least an equivalent amount of private investment (from the private members of the partnership), raising the total budget to above €2 billion euro.

As an institutionalised partnership, Clean Hydrogen JU has its own work programmes. 

Key documents

• Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) and its corrigendum
• Clean Hydrogen Work Programme 2023
• Clean Hydrogen JU annual activity report 2022
• Overview of hydrogen in the EU's energy strategy
• European Hydrogen Skills Strategy
• The Belgian Hydrogen Strategy
• The Flemish Hydrogen Strategy (in Dutch)

Contact

• Clean Hydrogen JU
• Hydrogen Europe
• Hydrogen Europe Research