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Location: Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union, 60 rue Belliard, 1040 Brussels
8:30 – 9:00 : Welcome coffee
9:00 – 09:30: Opening speeches of the 2nd day
- Bodo Lehmann, Head of the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union
- Pia Imbs, Grand Est Europe Vice-President, President of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg
- Tudor Constantinescu, Principal Adviser to the Director General for Energy in charge of Hydrogen, European Commission
- Jens Geier, Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the EU hydrogen strategy and the EU gas directive
9:30 – 10:30: Businesses and researchers, key players in regional development
- Barbara Koch, Professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, scientific director of the Fessenheim study
- Catherine Brun, Secretary general of GRTgaz
- Philippe Haffner, President of Haffner energy
- Adwin Martens, Head of Waterstofnet
- Tabea Ruckh, Responsible for funding, Platform H2BW
→ Moderator: Jacques Haenn, Representative of the DINAMHySE cluster of Grand Est, France Hydrogen regional delegate
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 12:00: What kind of support from the EU for hydrogen-related projects?
- Carla Benauges, Research and Innovation Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)
- Henning Ehrenstein, coordinateur hydrogène, Directorate-General for Internal Market (DG GROW)
- Olivier Silla, Head of Unit – Transport Investment (DG MOVE)
- Bart Biebuyck, Executive Director of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership
- Juan Antonio Magaña-Campos, Deputy Head of the Innovation Finance Advisory Division at the EIB
→ Moderator: Gaëtan Claeys, director of Grand Est-Europe
12:00 – 13:45: Lunch with poster sessions and networking
Examples of projects transforming regions and calls for partnerships : possibility given to participants to showcase a concrete project (roll-up/banner, leaflets…)
→ You can submit here your project.
13:45 – 14:30: From scientific cooperation to a common view on the way forward
- Presentation of the results of the workshops of 16th May by the « rapporteurs »
- Aravind Purushothaman Vellayani, Professor and Chair of Energy Conversion, University of Groningen
- Evrim Ursavas, Associate Professor of Energy and Logistics, University of Groningen
- Patrick Hendrick, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles and Chairman of the hydrogen thematic within BERA (Belgian Energy Research Alliance)
- Laurent Antoni, Chairman of Hydrogen Europe Research, CEA
- Call for action: Pia Imbs, President of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Doctor in economics, head of the Sustainable Development Chair at EM Strasbourg
→ Moderator : Olivier Joubert, CNRS Director of « French Research Network on Hydrogen » (FRH2), Professor at PolytechNantes and at Université de Nantes
14:30 – 15:45: The Greater Region, a pilot region for hydrogen in Europe?
Opening: Anke Rehlinger, Minister-President of Saarland
- Gilbert Pitance, General delegate of the Pôle de plasturgie de l’Est, President of the IUT de Moselle-Est
- Marc Zingraff, Vice President of the International Relations Commission of the Grand Est Region, 1st Vice President of Sarreguemines Confluences
- Bernd Vogler, Managing director of the chemical associations of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Raphaël Tilot, Executive President Renewables & Hydrogen, John Cockerill
- Pascal Arimont, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
→ Moderator: Jean-Baptiste Cuzin, director in charge of cross-border, European and international cooperation, Region Grand Est
15:45 – 16:00: Break
16:00 – 17:15: Rhine-Meuse: transitioning from H2 territorial strategies to a collective endeavour
Opening: Claude Turmes, Minister for Energy of Luxembourg, President of the Pentalateral Energy Forum
- Franck Leroy, Vice-President of the Grand Est Region in charge of ecological transition, Mayor of Epernay
- Angelika Niebler, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
- Laurent Riche, Vice-President of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
- Ulf Christian Reichardt, President and CEO of NRW.Energy4Climate
- Jan Molema, Director, Benelux General Secretariat
→ Moderator: Willem Huisman, moderator of the industry round table, European Clean Hydrogen Alliance
17:15 – 18:00: Closing remarks
- Stefan Kaufmann, Innovation Commissioner for green hydrogen, Federal ministry of education and research
- Laurent Michel, Director-General for Energy and Climate, French Presidency of the Council of the EU
- Jean Rottner, President of the Grand Est Region, French presidency of the Greater Region
- Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, European Commission
18:00: Cocktail
