Detailed Program
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The core sessions of the H2Excellence European Hydrogen Academy will be held in Auditorium I and Auditorium III.
In parallel, satellite training sessions and dissemination activities will take place in Satellite Room I.
📌 Please note: The program may be updated. We encourage you to check this page regularly for the latest information.
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome and Opening Session
08:45 - 09:15
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Teresa Ponce de Leão, President of the LNEG’s Board of Directors (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
Building excellence in Hydrogen skills: The role of H2Excellence in Europe’s green transition
09:15 - 09:45
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Teresa Ponce de Leão
Karna Dahal, Project Coordinator, VAMK (Finland)
09:15 - 09:30
The Hydrogen European Academy: What to expect
09:45 - 10:00
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator:Teresa Ponce de Leão
Carmen M. Rangel, LNEG (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
Plenary Lecture
10:00 - 10:30
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator:Teresa Ponce de Leão
The Future of Green Hydrogen: Innovation, Integration, and expected Impacts
Luigi Crema, Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy)
09:15 - 09:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
09:15 - 09:30
The Hydrogen value chains
11:00 - 12:30
Auditorium I
Moderator: Angela Pulvirenti
11:00 - 11:30
Green Hydrogen: Production technologies and relevant applications
Tiago Lagarteira, Verdantia (Portugal)
11:30 - 12:00
Power2X: Green H2 as an energy vector
Herkko Plit, P2X Solutions Oy (Finland)
12:00 - 12:30
Fuel Cells and other H2energy conversion technologies
Francesca Santoni, ENEA (Italy)
09:15 - 09:30
Fuel Cell technologies and applications
11:00 - 12:00
Satellite Room I
Carlos Valentim, Toyota-Caetano, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Hydrogen Valleys and regional development strategies
11:00 - 12:30
Auditorium III
Moderator: Paloma Ferreira
11:00 - 11:30
Hydrogen Valleys: mapping Europe’s projects
Inês Moura Martins, Clean Hydrogen JU (EU, Brussels)
11:30 - 12:00
Building a Green Hydrogen Valley through network projects and development
José Ignacio Hormaeche, BH2C (Spain)
12:00 - 12:30
Empowering regions in the Hydrogen economy: Markets, innovation, and regional value creation
Hugo Gonçalves, H2Talent (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
High Temperature Electrolyser for Hydrogen Production
12:00 - 12:30
Satellite Room I
Giovanni Cinti, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
09:15 - 09:30
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
09:15 - 09:30
Green H2 projects
14:00 - 15:30
Auditorium I
Moderator: Inès Bucheit
14:00 - 14:30
Large scale electrolysis plants for Green H2 production
Jon Anzola, Univ. Mondragon (Spain)
14:30 - 15:00
Green Hydrogen: improved and lower cost technologies and materials
Jean-Patrick Corso, Chlynn (France)
15:00 - 15:30
Integrating and blending Green H2 into existing gas networks: examples and applications
José C. Pequeno, FLOENE (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
H2 vocational training (VET): Skills, profiles, and training innovations
14:00 - 15:30
Auditorium III
Moderator:Cecília Mateos-Pedrero
14:00 - 14:30
Skill gaps across the H2 value chain: Insights from industry and research
Rui Ribeiro, Univ. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
14:30 - 15:00
Emerging professional profiles and training pathways in the H2 sector: specialized needs and challenges
Gianluca Greco, Aragon H2 Foundation (Spain)
15:00 - 15:30
Training offers in hydrogen education: The role of Micro-Credentials and flexible learning
Oonagh McGirr, Univ. of Northampton, WAM (UK)
09:15 - 09:30
Hydrogen Production from Residues
14:30 - 15:00
Satellite Room I
Catarina Nobre, IP Portalegre, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Working in in ATEX environments
15:00 - 15:30
Satellite Room I
Sanna Kangasvieri, VAMIA, Finland
09:15 - 09:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
09:15 - 09:30
Why H2?
16:00 - 16:30
Satellite Room I
Cecilia Mateos-Pedrero, IPP, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Round Table
16:00 - 17:00
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderators: Cristina Maggi, Italian H2 Association (Italy)
Carmen Rangel, LNEG (Portugal)
Approaches to Innovation in the Green H2 value chain: startups versus larger companies
Representatives of companies that lectured during the day
Green Hydrogen at Scale: How HyChem Is Turning Opportunity into Reality
09:15 - 09:30
16:30 - 17:00
Satellite Room I
Bernardo Vasconcelos, Hychem, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Day sessions agenda information
09:00 - 09:15
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Karna Dahal
09:15 - 09:30
Plenary Lecture
09:15 - 09:45
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Karna Dahal
Green Hydrogen challenges: from niche to large scale
Emilio Nieto, CNH2 (Spain)
09:15 - 09:30
Keynote Lecture
09:45 - 10:30
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Karna Dahal
Preparing for a low-carbon hydrogen economy - From storage to E-fuels
Natalia Łukasik – Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland)
09:15 - 09:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
09:15 - 09:30
H2 Hybrid Systems for Educational Automotive Sets
11:00 - 12:00
Satellite Room I
Ben Giordano, Horizon Educational, Czech Rep.
Jon Anzola, Mondragon Univ., Spain
09:15 - 09:30
H2Excellence e-learning platform
11:00 - 12:30
Auditorium I
Moderator: Lara O. Ramos
11:00 - 11:30
H2Excellence knowledge-hub platform: training and networking opportunities
Angela Pulvirenti, FAST (Italy)
11:30 - 12:00
DEMOS: H2Excellence e-learning Platform for specialized vocational and high education training in Hydrogen technologies
Lara de Diego, CIEMAT (Spain)
12:00 - 12:30
Approach to learning tools to manage skill gaps in Hydrogen technologies: insights from other Erasmus projects
Gaute Kornberg, H2COVE (Norway)
Giovanni Cinti, H2VE (Italy)
Lara Ramos, ISQ (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
H2 cost analysis, project tools and regulations
11:00 - 12:30
Auditorium III
Moderator: Catarina Nobre
11:00 - 11:30
Case studies on cost analysis of green Hydrogen and Levelized Cost Analysis (LCA) tools
Juan Portillo, LNEG (Portugal)
11:30 - 12:00
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) tools
Javier Dufour, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
12:00 - 12:30
H2 Regulations at European and local level
Paulo Martins, DGEG (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
H2 Storage: Tiny Atom, Big Challenges
12:00 - 12:30
Satellite Room I
Karna Dahl, VAMK, Finland
09:15 - 09:30
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
09:15 - 09:30
Plenary Lecture
14:00 - 14:30
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Jildimara Santana
Designing a Safe Hydrogen Future: Lessons learnt, innovations, and the roleof training and education
Paolo Mocellin, Univ. of Padova (Italy)
09:15 - 09:30
H2Excellence Interactive Web Applications for Hydrogen Education and Training
14:00 - 15:00
Satellite Room I
Paulo Pinto, LNEG, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Meet the companies: their own perspective
14:30 - 15:30
Auditorium I
Moderator: Jildimara Santana
14:30 - 15:00
SMEs in the green H2 ecosystem: skill gaps, training needs and future challenges
Nuno Gonçalves, DH2 (Portugal)
Herkko Plit, P2X Solutions Oy (Finland)
Cristina Maggi, Italian H2 Assoc.(Italy)
15:00 - 15:30
Pathways, strategies and challenges to companies in the green Hydrogen value chain
Diogo Quintão, UTIS (Portugal)
09:15 - 09:30
Green H2: From lab to product
14:30 - 15:30
Auditorium III
Moderator: Sana Kangasvieri
14:30 - 15:00
Green Hydrogen: Challenges in mobility and other emerging applications
Inès Buchheit, PVF (France)
15:00 - 15:30
Advanced integrated energy systems for a renewable energy-based future
Alfredo Ortiz, Univ. Cantabria (Spain)
09:15 - 09:30
Reskilling for Hydrogen Technologies: Exploring the H2Excellence Platform
15:00 - 15:30
Satellite Room I
Maria Rosária Seminara, ENEA, Italy
09:15 - 09:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
09:15 - 09:30
Student’s e-Posters exhibition with authors
16:00 - 16:30
Satellite Room I
09:15 - 09:30
Round Table
16:00 - 16:45
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Moderator: Francesca Santoni, ENEA (Italy)
Green Hydrogenin the society: Challenges in upskilling and reskilling, vocational training and lifelong learning
Representatives of companies that lectured during the day
09:15 - 09:30
Competition of MSc and PhD Thesis
16:45 - 17:15
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
Selected presentations by winner authors
Giovanni Cinti, Univ. Perugia (Italy)
09:15 - 09:30
Next day technical visit information
Closure of Academy’s in-room sessions
17:15 - 17:30
Plenary Room (Auditorium I)
09:15 - 09:30
Departure from FIL Meeting Centre (Lisbon)
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:30
Technical visit to the industrial facilities of HyChem, a green hydrogen producer company near Lisbon
10:00 - 12:00
09:15 - 09:30
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
09:15 - 09:30
Technical visit focusing on green hydrogen mobility application in public transportation at Cascais, near Lisbon, including meeting with Portuguese H2 Buses and H2 refueling stations manufacturers
14:30 - 16:30
(To be fully confirmed)
09:15 - 09:30
Return to FIL Meeting Centre (Lisbon)
16:30 - 17:30
Academy closure



