Structural change in the Rhenish mining area
HC-H2-Network
We want to make sure that the phrase “If I had only known …” is rarely uttered in the future in the Rhineland region. That’s what our network team is there for. It helps to connect the many hydrogen activities in the region.
“Many people, enterprises, and research institutions are working to transform our mining area into a demonstration region for innovative and environmentally friendly energy technologies. We are helping to ensure that the various players get to know each other, combine their efforts, and ultimately achieve more by working together,” says Fabian Patzak, head of the HC-H2 Hydrogen Network NRW. Crucially, membership of the HC-H2 network is free of charge for all stakeholders.
Working together to achieve more – This is the aim of our Helmholtz hydrogen cluster, which is currently the largest project dedicated to structural change in the Rhenish mining area. The HC-H2 network team works to promote the cluster’s projects and explain the opportunities of working with us.
Team leader Fabian Patzak (left) and speakers Vanessa Düster (centre) and Severin Foit (right) are the HC-H2 contact point. The team network acts as a service provider and gives companies, local authorities and interested specialists the opportunity to have themselves and their expertise included in a database set up by the network team. In this way, the network supports members in their search for potential cooperation partners and thus facilitates the realisation of projects.
To contact the team directly, please use the email address connect@hch2.de.
Become a part of our database that helps our team to support the HC-H2 network members in finding potential collaboration partners and facilitates the implementation of projects.
What is the HC-H2 network? What do we do and how can you work with us? We answer these and other questions in this HC-H2 pitch.
The HC-H2 Hydrogen Network NRW team regularly publishes a newsletter on hydrogen. To subscribe to the HC-H2 newsletter and be kept up to date, click here.
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Our events
HC-H2 Brainergy Park Connect
The HC-H2 Brainergy Park Connect is a regular meeting of the residents of the innovative new intermunicipal Brainergy Park business park organised by our network team. Here, existing and future neighbours and their business partners exchange views on current topics and possible joint ideas. The meetings consist of presentations, discussion rounds and a joint lunch. Are you also planning to move to Brainergy Park? Then please contact us at connect@hch2.de.
HC-H2 Science Spotlight
The HC-H2 Science Spotlight is a series of lectures for which we invite renowned scientists in the field of hydrogen research to our institute. We offer interested parties the opportunity to participate either on site or online and to discuss with the experts after the lecture. The HC-H2 Science Spotlight will be held in English. Are you interested and want to gain new insights into the world of hydrogen research? On this page you will find event announcements. Register here for the next issue.
HC-H2 Show Room
With the HC-H2 Show Room, the HC-H2 aims to visualise special milestones in the development of the H2 demonstration region. On the one hand, these are the demonstration projects distributed throughout the Rhenish mining area. Our team organises an HC-H2 Show Room both during the start-up phase and shortly before the completion of a demonstration project. The events are organised in two parts. As part of a symposium, the partners involved present their objectives and the results achieved. There will also be a ceremony. We also want to make the growth of the Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW) at Forschungszentrum Jülich visible. The INW forms the core of HC-H2. We accompany the major development steps of INW with HC-H2 Show Room events.
