The Commission and key stakeholders signed a joint declaration highlighting the crucial role of sustained efforts in renewable hydrogen research and innovation.

Through this declaration, the Commission together with the European hydrogen industry, scientific community, and European regions, commit to stepping up and accelerating joint actions in research, development, demonstration, and deployment of Hydrogen Valleys. In line with the EU Hydrogen Strategy and contributing to the REPowerEU Plan and the Green Deal Industrial Plan objectives, these powerhouses connect hydrogen production, transportation, and a range of cutting-edge applications – from clean mobility to industrial feedstock – creating fully functional and sustainable clusters of supply and demand, advancing renewable hydrogen deployment and as a result driving forward the clean energy transition.

The joint declaration also calls for sustained investments, strengthening synergies between funding resources, sharing knowledge, stimulating the development of education and training for skills, and building regional hydrogen networks and interconnections between Hydrogen Valleys.

Based on this, we highlight the work of our partner, the Aragon Hydrogen Foundation, the only European entity that participates in 5 hydrogen valleys. This model is ideal for extending and showing that this technology brings together all the elements related to the production, storage, transport and end use of hydrogen in a single territory. Specifically, the Aragonese Foundation is participating in the hydrogen valley projects of BIG HIT (Scotland), Heavenn (Holland), Green Hysland (Balearic Islands), NAVH (Italy-Slovenia-Croatia) and SH2AMROCK (Ireland).

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The Agri-Food City of Tudela, in Navarra, has been the scene of the first forum of the Ebro Hydrogen Corridor. An event in which 43 projects belonging to Aragon, Basque Country, Navarra and Catalonia and representing the entire value chain have been presented. The event has also had institutional representation with the presence of the President of Navarra, Maria Chivite; the Minister of Economic and Business Development of the Government of Navarra, Mikel Irujo; the director of the Basque Energy Agency, Iñigo Ansola; the Director General of Industry and SMEs of the Government of Aragon, Javier Navarro; and the Minister of Enterprise and Labor of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Roger Torrent. The president of Navarra, María Chivite, has highlighted «the importance of the collaboration between the communities of the Basque Country, Aragon, Catalonia and Navarra to work with ambition in the energy transition and for the Ebro Corridor to become the Green Hydrogen pole in Southern Europe with the sum of the industrial capacities of the four autonomous communities and the ability to promote a Hydrogen economy».
During the forum also took place the presentation of 43 projects representing the entire value chain of green hydrogen and belonging to the four autonomous communities. In addition, the companies have had the opportunity to hold bilateral meetings to form synergies between them and to develop projects that promote the development of the hydrogen economy.