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FCH-JU-2009-1 SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.1: Development of educational programmes Coordination and Support Action HYPROFESSIONALS Project

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Part B of the Proposal

Call identifier:

FCH-JU - 2009-1

SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.1: Development of educational programmes

COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTION

HYPROFESSIONALS Project

Development of educational programmes and

training initiatives related to hydrogen

technologies and fuel cells in Europe.

FCH-JU-2009-1, SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.1: Development of educational programmes Coordination and Support Actions: HYPROFESSIONALS Project

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Proposal Full Title:

Development of educational programmes and training initiatives related to hydrogen technologies and fuel cells in Europe.

Proposal Acronym: HYPROFESSIONALS Project

Type of funding scheme: Coordination and support actions

Abstract:

Today’s technicians and students are the next generation of potential fuel cell users and designers, and education now is a critical step towards the widespread acceptance and implementation of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the near future.

Development of training initiatives for technical professionals will be started aiming to secure the required mid- and long-term availability of human resources for hydrogen technologies.

The future initiatives have to be carried out for various educational levels and including industry, SMEs, educational institutions and Authorities. Coordination and cooperation are key factors to fulfil the objective: develop a well-trained work-force which will support the technological development.

Contact with other educational programs like Leonardo will be sought.

Keywords:

Training, hydrogen technologies, fuel cells, education, H2, FC, Vocational, Skills

Annual Implementation Plan topics addressed:

Area SP1-JTI-FCH.5: Cross-cutting Issues

Topic: SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.1 Development of educational programmes Name of the coordinating person: Dr. Luis Carlos Correas

List of participants:

Participant no. *

Participant organisation name Country Member of IG or RG

1 (Coordinator) Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon Spain RG

2 FAST, Federation of Scientific and Technical Association

Italy

3 San Valero Foundation Spain

4 UNIDO ICHET Austria RG

5 European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy

Belgium n/a

6 WBZU Germany

7 Association PHYRENEES France

8 Environment Park Italy IG

9 CPI, Centre for Process Innovation United Kingdom

RG

Project Budget: 432.116,00 €

Requested Funding: 373.537,00 €, 100% funding for supporting actions

Project Run Time: 2 years (24 months)


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Table of Contents

1. Scientific and/or technical quality, relevant to the topics addressed by the call . 4

1.1 Concept and objectives .................................................................................... 4

Introduction ................................................................................................. 4

Concept ...................................................................................................... 8

Scientific and/or Technological Objectives ............................................... 11

Relevance to the Topics of the Call .......................................................... 11

1.2 Progress beyond the state-of-the-art ............................................................. 12

1.3 Quality and effectiveness of the Coordination/Support Actions mechanisms and associated work plan ......................................................................................... 13

i) Describe the overall strategy of the work plan .......................................... 13

ii) Show the timing of the different WPs and their components (Gantt chart or similar) ....................................................................................................... 14

iii) Provide a detailed work description broken down into work packages . 15

Table 1.3 a: Work package list .......................................................................... 15

Table 1.3 b: Deliverables List ............................................................................ 16

Table 1.3 c List of milestones ............................................................................ 17

Table 1.3 d: Work package description ............................................................. 18

Table 1.3 e Summary of staff effort .................................................................. 30

iv) Provide a graphical presentation of the components showing their interdependencies.......................................................................................... 31

v) Describe any significant risks, and associated contingency plans. ....... 31

2. Implementation .................................................................................................. 34

2.1 Management structure and procedures ...................................................... 34

2.2 Individual Participants ................................................................................ 39

2.3 Consortium as a whole ............................................................................... 47

i) Sub-contracting: ....................................................................................... 51

ii) Other countries: There are not third countries involved. ...................... 51

iii) Additional partners: There are not other partners involved ................... 51

2.4 Resources to be committed ........................................................................ 52

3. Impact ................................................................................................................. 54

3.1 Expected impacts listed in the Annual Implementation Plan ...................... 54

3.2 Spreading excellence, exploiting results and disseminating knowledge (for Coordination and Support Actions only) ................................................................ 58

4. Ethical Issues ..................................................................................................... 61

5. Consideration of gender aspects ..................................................................... 62


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1. Scientific and/or technical quality, relevant to the topics addressed by the call 1.1 Concept and objectives Introduction The EU education and training policy has been given added impetus since the

adoption of the Lisbon Strategy in 2000. Knowledge and innovation are the EU's

most valuable assets, particularly as global competition becomes more intense in all

sectors.

EU member states and the European Commission have in recent years strengthened

their political cooperation through the Education and Training 2010 Work Programme

which integrates previous actions in the fields of education and training at the

European level, including vocational education and training under the Copenhagen

Process, and links up to the Bologna Process, which is crucial in the development of

the European Higher Education Area.

As hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are coming to market the need for a new

educational profile related to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies has been identified

as a crucial element to ensure that professionals involved at various level of

research, development and installation of these technologies receive an adequate

training.

The aim of the project is to develop a comprehensive basic training programme for

different educational levels, starting at technical schools, up to undergraduate and

graduate studies to ensure an educated workforce that is able to support the

development of sustainable industrial hydrogen and fuel cell sector and a commercial

market.

In Europe different educational and training projects and initiatives have been carried

out and the HYPROFESSIONALS project will take advantage of the results and

lessons learned, join efforts and coordinate activities to facilitate adequate

dissemination and implementation of its results. Some of these projects and

initiatives identified are:

HYFED 6: established in 2006 by Italian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association,

H2IT, WBZU, Germany and the University of Iceland as a result of their

contribution to the Initiative Group Education and Training of the European

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFP). It collects, disseminates

and promotes educational activities regarding H2&FC in Europe. It has been

organizing educational stands and educational sessions at the main European

hydrogen events,

H2-Trainig project: (Leonardo da Vinci Program).

http://h2training.eu/index_en.htm The project anticipates forthcoming expert

qualification by developing prospective actions, as an European observatory,

http://h2training.eu/index_en.htm


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in collaboration with the business sector, the institutional, the scientific and the

teaching ambits interested in the Hydrogen-based Technologies ambit and

renewable energies. This prospective action has been completed with the

elaboration of a European curricula design and training contents supported by

the international cooperation of excellent entities in the scientific, technical and

pedagogical ambits and the development of a demonstrative experimentation

orientated to validate quality products and results. 9 partners included FHa,

San Valero Foundation, WBZU, EnviPark and FAST. The curricula design and

material is available in Spanish, English, Italian and German.

Hydrogen network: (6th FP, Marie Curie research training network) The

Hydrogen network brings together leading researchers from different

disciplines and sectors with a combined expertise that maximizes the chance

of achieving scientific breakthroughs in production and storage of hydrogen,

while guaranteeing the successful training of a new generation of scientists for

tackling scientific problems standing in the way of the hydrogen economy.

http://www.mcrtn-hydrogen.eu/

HYTRAIN: (6th FP, MOBILITY-1.1 Marie Curie Research Training Networks

(RTN) Marie Curie actions-Research Training Networks). The project

integrates the leading centres in Europe active in hydrogen storage research

within a coherent framework of dedicated networking activities focused on the

training of young researchers through a joint innovative research program

http://www.imr.salford.ac.uk/hytrain/index.html

H2 Incidents and lessons learned: H2Incidents is a database-driven website

intended to facilitate the sharing of lessons learned and other relevant

information gained from actual experiences using and working with hydrogen.

The database also serves as a voluntary reporting tool for capturing records of

events involving either hydrogen or hydrogen-related technologies.

http://www.h2incidents.org/

Roads2HyCom: The Roads2HyCom project is a partnership of 29

stakeholder organizations supported by the European Commission

Framework Six Program. One of the subjects studied in this project has been

Education, Training and Skills and the curricula proposed is focus on

engineering sector, because European economic development policy is

generally focused on the “high value” parts of the value chain.

http://www.roads2hy.com/

http://www.mcrtn-hydrogen.eu/

http://www.imr.salford.ac.uk/hytrain/index.html

http://www.h2incidents.org/

http://www.roads2hy.com/


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Figure 1: Hierarchy of curricula for education graduate engineers on implementing hydrogen technologies. Roads2HyCom

Figure 2: Building blocks of the proposed curriculum. Roads2HyCom

HyCourse: The University of Ulster is running annual Summer Schools on

Hydrogen Safety as part of the European HyCourse project (2006-2010). The

aim of this project is the establishment of the first European training course on

hydrogen safety.

http://hysafer.ulster.ac.uk/resprojects.php?action=showProject&projectId=1018

The Danish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Academy (HyFC) offers PhD programme

in hydrogen, covering the entire chain from production to end use. HyFC also

http://hysafer.ulster.ac.uk/resprojects.php?action=showProject&projectId=1018


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organizes Summer Schools in connection with the Grove Conference.

www.hyfc.aau.dk

The Polish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association run a Summer School in Fuel

Cell and Hydrogen Technology. www.hydrogen.edu.pl

An experimental bench test was developed for high school students for PEM

fuel cell testing and full hydrogen cycle demonstration. The project was

developed and funded for the Regional Government and called HysyONE

(www.hysylab.com).

A Winter School on state of art & future of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Technologies was organized in Bardonecchia in 2007. An event within the

training activities of the several EU-funded projects in the domestic,

automotive, naval, portable power and safety fields: FlameSOFC, HyTran,

McWAP, MorePOWER, PEMTOOL, HySAFE.

UNIDO-ICHET offer training short courses and workshops for engineers and

engineering educators on specific hydrogen technologies, covering aspects

such as design, installation and operation of systems and equipment. Some

of the selected education activities with respect to this proposal include;

National Hydrogen Energy Education Workshops for Science high school

teachers in 2006 and 2007 with total attendance of 800 science teachers. A

fuel cell powered model car competition between science high school students

in Istanbul. Various quarterly short courses since 2007 and an international

summer school on PEM Fuel cells, July 14-18, 2008. Four workshops;

Hydrogen Production & Storage Workshop, ICHET, Istanbul, April 6-7, 2007,

NATO Advanced Studies Workshop on Sustainable Energy Production &

Consumption & Environmental Costing, Naples, Italy, July 4-7, 2007. “H2

Islands Initiative” meeting in Brussels, October 10, 2007. IPHE – ICHET

workshop on “Hydrogen Technologies for Developing World”, Moscow, April

2008.

In the UK Newcastle University is shortly to fund an EPSRC Case PhD

student on Hydrogen & Fuel Processing Strategies for Fuel Cell Systems.

Newcastle University (UK) delivers a number of Energy, Renewable Energy

Certificates/Diplomas and MSc courses which include Fuel Cell & Hydrogen

modules.

Fuel Cell Education and Training centre (WBZU) is an established

education and training centre in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen

technologies in Germany. Since the foundation of the association in 2002

more than 100 seminars, workshops, courses and lectures have been carried

out. The courses are especially adapted for pupils and students as well as well

as for technicians, engineers and scientists. To ensure hands on technology

and practical training, different fuel-cell training and demonstration systems

and are featured. www.wbzu.de.

http://www.hyfc.aau.dk/

http://www.hydrogen.edu.pl/

http://www.hysylab.com/

http://www.wbzu.de/


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There are initiatives, projects and courses (PhD, vocational training, e-learning…)

related to hydrogen technologies but skills shortages are a common feature of the

technology landscape when a new technology starts to become successful. These

shortages can stretch right across the value chain, from applied research and

product engineering, to manufacturing and maintenance. It is important to ensure that

a lack of skills does not become a barrier in the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

development.

When Hydrogen and Fuel Cell technologies become more widespread within the EU

it will become critical that the EU has the required human recourses trained and

ready to support these technologies in areas such as installations, servicing, training

etc. The bases have to be set up on time and EU has to be prepared by means of

coordination of stakeholders.

Concept The project foreseen is set in the framework of the “EU hydrogen roadmap” and

European Strategy in hydrogen and fuel cells that includes the objective of promoting

an “EU education and training program from the schools to the world-wide quality

research” from coordinated initiatives.

Today’s technicians and students are the next generation of potential fuel cell users

and designers, and education now is a critical step towards the widespread

acceptance and implementation of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the near future.

A comprehensive education campaign needs a foundation on which to be built. This

foundation consists of readily available “groundwork” materials that provide

background and general information at different levels about hydrogen and fuel cells

as well as a means by which to distribute the information.

Once the foundation is established, attention can turn to activities that serve the

specific needs of several key target audiences. Initial education efforts will focus on

state and local governments, community groups and public citizens living in areas

where near-term demonstration projects are planned, teachers and students, and

potential large-scale end-users—target audiences identified as critical to the

successful implementation of near-term technology demonstrations. All this requires

sustained education efforts.

It is important to note that the timeline for implementing strategies to reach priority

audiences will vary slightly, according to their education needs relative to the market-

readiness of the technology.

Educational programs and training activities are a key factor for the development of

the technology and to favor its deployment in EU. This gap cannot represent a barrier

for the technology development.

More and more projects, initiatives, systems and technologies related to hydrogen

and fuel cells are implemented in Europe and around the world, but to make sure that


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we will have a well-trained work force we have to make a sustained effort and invest

to develop technical educational programs and training activities at different levels

(undergraduate, graduates, academia, vocational training, technical schools, training

of trainers,…), sectors (research, industry, authorities, …) and modalities (presential,

semi-presential, distant/e-learning).

Capacity building and labor force to be ready for projected wide scale commercialization of hydrogen technologies starting 2015. When such a new technology is trying to gain initial market acceptance, failure, due to lack of trained individuals, is not acceptable.

The Implementation Report WG5 Cross Cutting Issues (XCI), elaborated by the

disappeared European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, estimated that

the capacities needed include up to 20.000 engineers and 15.000 to 20.000 service

technicians that require training over the next 10 years to fully realize the potential of

the Snapshot 2020 scenario:

Education deals mostly with long term aspects of educating the future user

generation as well as improving the methodological basis to facilitate rapid

uptake in an engineering undergraduate education. This part draws heavily on

the Trade& Industry as well as the government element of the IG ET Program.

Training is a most urgent need, as it may lead to a restraint in growth due to

lack of qualified personnel developing the product variety needed to succeed

in the market. Given succinct differences in the public perception regarding

safety of the new hydrogen and fuel cell regime, it will be necessary to deal

with this sector in a most comprehensive and thorough manner. This sector is

based on the proposals made for the schools as well as academia & research

target groups in the original IG ET Paper. Training should be offered only by

qualified and accredited organizations thus some design and accrediting effort

may be necessary to help build confidence.

A European wide coordinated approach to inform local authorities needs to

start using the experiences of current EU and national projects and aiming at

offering the instruments to local entities to build increasing expertise and

knowledge on hydrogen and fuel cell applications.

Strong collaboration with other clean energy education activities is

recommended, using existing networks where possible. Increased effort is

required to raise the profile of clean energy in educational institutions in

general and to speed up the introduction of hydrogen and fuel cells into the

curriculum. The establishment of a European H2&FC Education and Training

Coordination Unit is recommended to enact this, and to ensure continuity and

effective coordination.


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Figure 3: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Trained Staff in Europe. [WG5 XCIof the HFP]

Education is also required after the planned 2020 commercial introduction (Strategic

Agenda and Implementation Plan of the HFP) to facilitate market success and

penetration beyond the niche of early adopters. Therefore the project aims to reach a

broad community of educational institutions in Europe to engage them in

implementing the developed training programmes so that they become part of their

curriculum.

The project´s concept is summed up in the next figure:

Figure 4: Project description


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Scientific and/or Technological Objectives The project objectives can be summed up in:

Identify existing training programs related to hydrogen and fuel cells in the EU that may provide a good base for educational activities (Mapping).

Development of specific initiatives, proposals, guidelines and/or projects to get consolidated educational programs for technical training at different levels, implementing the results of this project and involving different stakeholders (industry, SMEs, educational entities, authorities,...).

Disseminate the results at different target audiences to facilitate acceptance and implementation of these technologies by means of education. Objective of 2 pilot actions (minimum) involving different European countries is fixed.

Increase in the number of state and local government representatives which receive information and understand the concept of a hydrogen economy, and how it may affect them. The participation of different EU countries (7) and the celebration of workshops (2 minimum) to involve different stakeholders will favour this objective.

Exchange experiences, project results, training initiatives on-going, training courses and good practices (creation of an e-library) to take advantage of the work already done, to maximize the reach of education efforts and avoid duplication. The sought aim is to improve the quality and effectiveness of education and training initiatives related to hydrogen and fuel cells.

Achieve a motivating personal and professional identity in future learning and adjustment to the development of the technology and social change

Facilitate access to education and training systems related to hydrogen technologies and coordinate efforts among Authorities, Industry, Educational Institutions, Universities and other stakeholders. Pursue the development of a suitable European curriculum at different levels.

Launch a comprehensive and coordinated public education campaign about the hydrogen economy and fuel cell technology to overcome lack of information barriers.

Relevance to the Topics of the Call The 7th Framework Program (FP7) of the European Community for research,

technological development and demonstration activities (FP7) launched in 2007 is a

major instrument for achieving the strategic goals the Community sets itself. In

particular, the objectives of the R&D program on the European level are concerned

with strengthening the scientific and technological bases of the industry, including

service industries, with a view to assuring a high level of competitiveness, and with

improving quality of life of European citizens.

More specifically, the decision of the European Parliament and the Council

concerning FP7 says that the Community will promote research "...giving priority to

those areas and projects where European funding and cooperation is of particular

importance and gives an added value. Through its support for research at the


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frontiers of knowledge, applied research and innovation, the Community seeks to

promote synergies in European research and thus provide a more stable foundation

for the European Research Area. This will make a positive contribution to the social

and economic progress of all Member States".

HYPROFESSIONAL Project is directly within the scope of the Annual

Implementation Plan 2009, specifically in the Area SP1-JTI-FCH.5 Cross-Cutting

Issues, Topic SP1-JTI-FCH.2009.5.1 Development of educational programmes.

The project is focus on the development of educational programmes and training

initiatives for technical professionals to secure the required mid- and long-term

availability of human resources capable to properly operate the technologies safely.

This will be done for various educational levels, including several countries with

different experiences on the matter. Cooperation with other educational programs like

Leonardo will be sought to launch new initiatives and projects which allow getting

enough well-trained work force related to hydrogen technologies in a near future.

1.2 Progress beyond the state-of-the-art

Not applicable for supporting actions


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1.3 Quality and effectiveness of the Coordination/Support Actions mechanisms and associated work plan

i) Describe the overall strategy of the work plan

The work plan has been broken down into five work packages covering in a coherent way all

the tasks which will be performed:

WP1: Mapping of existing training programs in EU: Identification of projects, actions,

initiatives and courses on-going in EU to provide a good base for this educational action.

This work package includes the identification of funding programs which allow supporting

new educational projects/initiatives to join efforts in the EU.

WP2: Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and outreach programs:

Identification of the target groups and stakeholders by sectors. Development of specific

proposals/initiatives to deal with and cover the educational needs identified. The existing

programs will be used in an efficient and effective manner for ramping up the obtaining of a

well-trained task force and overcome barriers.

WP3: Implementation of broad, efficient outreach education programs: Development of

the identified actions and activities to cover different levels from technical schools level and

covering undergraduate and graduate studies. Training pilot actions for assessment of

proposals and/or initiatives are planned.

WP4: Management and monitoring and assessment: adequate assignment of resources,

monitoring, assessment, verification and validation of the results obtained.

WP5: Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan: The objective of the dissemination work

package is to ensure that the project results will be used in as many relevant training

programmes of European educational institutions as possible Therefore special attention will

be given to the identification of the most effective dissemination channels using existing

education networks and organizations in Europe. In addition contact networks established

through relevant EU programmes and projects will be activated to inform local stakeholders

and engage them in ensuring that the project results will be integrated in relevant training

programmes at the targeted educational levels in EU member states.

FHa will coordinate the different entities participating in the project and every WP has a

leader that will assure the fulfillment of the objectives. After the mapping of existing training

programs dealt with in the project (WP1), a preliminary assessment and planning in detail of

WP2 and WP3 will be made. Those WPs will allow the launching of new initiatives and

educational programs/projects across Europe. WP5 will facilitate the dissemination of the

project to contact new entities and to spread the project results across EU stakeholders.

WP4 allow coordinating, monitoring and assessment of the other WPs.

All WPs have been defined into tasks, milestones and deliverables. Task leaders and WP

leaders have been defined to ensure fulfillment of the objectives too.

Several dissemination activities will be organized throughout the duration of the project in the different participating European countries, which will include dissemination in workshops, attendance to international conferences and results publication.

Some work packages will be carried out in parallel as is shown below (Gant chart) due to the close relationship of them and their complementarities.


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ii) Show the timing of the different WPs and their components (Gantt chart

or similar)

WP AND TASKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

WP1: Mapping of existing training programs in EU

Task 1.1: Identif ication of educational/training

programs and initiatives in the EU

Task 1.2: Assessment of educational materials

Task 1.3: Identif ication of funding programs.

WP2: Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and

outreach programs

Task 2,1: Identif ication and analysis of educational

gaps and needs

Task 2,2: Identif ication of target groups and

stakeholders by sectors.

Task 2,3: Development of educational/training

proposals/initiatives

WP3: Implementation of broad, efficient outreach

education programs

Task 3.1 Launching of proposals.

Task 3.2 Pilot action

WP4: Management, monitoring and assessment

Task 4.1: Global management.

Task 4.2: Organize and preside project meetings

Task 4.3: Monitoring of project activities

Task 4.4: Organization of f inancial documents and

progress reports to be submitted to the EC.

Task 4.5: Control of any external communications.

Task 4.6: Verif ication, validation and implementation of

the results obtained

WP5: Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan

Task 5.1: Dissemination Plan

Task 5.2: Organization of annual w orkshops

Task 5.3: Development of a w ebsite and multi-media

communication tools.

Task 5.4: Dissemination of the project activities and

result. Valorisation Plan

Month


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iii) Provide a detailed work description broken down into work packages

Work package list (please use table 1.3a); Deliverables list (please use table 1.3b); List of milestones (please use table 1.3c); Description of each work package (please use table 1.3d);

Summary effort table (please use table 1.3e)

Table 1.3 a: Work package list

Work package

No1

Work package title Type of activity

2

Lead participant

No3

Lead participant

short name

Person-months

4

Start month

5

End month

5

WP1 Mapping of existing training programs in EU

SUPP 3

FSV 6.7 1 10

WP2 Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and outreach program

SUPP 7

PHYR 12.8 6 24

WP3 Implementation of broad, efficient outreach education programs

SUPP 9

CPI 12.8 14 24

WP4 Management, monitoring and assessment

MGT 1 FHa 6.5 1 24

WP5 Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan.

SUPP 2

FAST 9.4 1 24

TOTAL 48.2

1 Work package number: WP 1 – WP n.

2 Please indicate one activity per work package:

RTD = Research and technological development; DEM = Demonstration; COO = Coordination activities; SUPP = Support

activities; MGT = Management of the consortium; OTHER = Other specific activities, if applicable in this call. According to the description of the funding scheme given previously.

3 Number of the participant leading the work in this work package.

4 The total number of person-months allocated to each work package.

5 Measured in months from the project start date (month 1).


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Table 1.3 b: Deliverables List

6 Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates: D1 – Dn 7 Please indicate the nature of the deliverable using one of the following codes:

R = Report, P = Prototype, D = Demonstrator, O = Other 8 Please indicate the dissemination level using one of the following codes:

PU = Public

PP = Restricted to other programme participants (including the FCH JU Services)

RE = Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the FCH JU Services)

CO = Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the FCH JU Services) 9 Month in which the deliverables will be available. Month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all delivery

dates being relative to this start date.

Del. no.

6

Deliverable name WP no. Lead bene-ficiary

Estimated indicative person-months

Nature

7

Dissemi-nation level 8

Delivery date

9

(proj.

month)

D1 website design, logo and project image

5 2 FAST 3 O PU 4

D2 Funding programs analysis report 1 6 WBZU 1.5 R PU 6

D3 Best educational practices report 1 3 FSV 2.5 R PU 6

D4 Dissemination plan and dissemination materials (project leaflet,...)

5 2 FAST 2.8 R PU 6

D5 Standards of the different educational systems

1 6 WBZU 2.7 R PU 10

D6 Target groups and stakeholders identification

2 8 EnvP 4.2 R PU 12

D7

Monitoring report: project review Interim report to JTI (results report, technical and dissemination information, expenses incurred)

4 1 FHa 2 R CO 12

D8 Gap analysis 2 7 PHYR 4 R PU 15

D9 Specific proposals/initiatives developed report

2 8 EnvP 4.6 R PU 24

D10 Report of proposals and new initiatives launched

3 9 CPI 6.4 R PU 24

D11 Pilot actions report. Results and lessons learnt

3 9 CPI 6.4 R PU 24

D12 final review report: validation of results. Final cost statement and dissemination and technical report

4 1 FHa 3 R CO 24

D13 Implementation plan. Continuation 4 1 FHa 1.5 R PU 24

D14 Publishable report of results 5 2 FAST 3.6 R PU 24

TOTAL 48.2


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Table 1.3 c List of milestones

List and schedule of milestones

Milestone

no. Milestone name WPs

no's. Lead

beneficiary Delivery date

from Annex I 10

Comments

1 Kick-off meeting. Project Start

WP4 FHa 1 minutes of the meeting will

be sent to EC

2

Project presentation to

media. Launching event

WP5 FAST 3 Media impact. Report of

press releases

3 Website WP5 FAST 4 activation

4 e- Library : educational resources

WP1 FSV 10 activation on internet

5 Workshop 1. Project Launching

WP5 FAST 11

List of attendees (registration).

Dissemination done. Program.

6 2nd

Meeting WP4 FHa 12 minutes of the meeting

7 Pilot action 1 WP3 CPI 19 Report and documentation

of the course. Pupils list and registration

8 Pilot action 2 WP3 CPI 20 Report and documentation

of the course. Pupils list and registration

9 Final meeting WP4 FHa 24 minutes of the meeting

10 Final report to EC WP4 FHa 24 Submission of final report

11 Workshop 2. Final event

WP5 FAST 24

List of attendees (registration).

Dissemination done. Program.

12

Project End: Analysis and

strategic working plan for

educational activities in the

EU

WP2 PHYR 24 Validated Report

10

Month in which the milestone will be achieved. Month 1 marking the start date of the project, and all

delivery dates being relative to this start date.


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Table 1.3 d: Work package description

Work package description

Work package number 1 Start date or starting event: Month 1

Work package title Mapping of existing training programs in EU

Activity Type11

SUPP

Participant number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Participant short name FHa FAST FSV UNIDO JRC WBZU PHYR EnvP CPI

Person-months per participant: 0.5 0.3 2.5 0.5 0.1 1 0.8 0.2 0.8

Total Person Months 6.7

Objectives

Identification of projects, actions, initiatives and courses on-going in EU to provide a good base for

educational actions. Identification of opportunities and capabilities in the EU.

Create a library of educational materials to serve the needs of multiple target audiences.

The work package includes the identification of funding programs which allow supporting new educational

projects/initiatives to join efforts towards a European curriculum in hydrogen technologies at different levels

and with different educational methodologies.

WP Leader: FSV, San Valero Foundation (ES)

Duration: 10 months (from month 1 to month 10)

Description of work

Task 1.1: Identification of educational/training programs and initiatives in the EU

Taskleader: FSV, San Valero Foundation (ES)

Participants: FHa, FAST, FSV, UNIDO, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP, CPI


Description: Mapping of existing training programs in the EU from technical school level, covering

undergraduate and graduate studies.

Identification of projects, courses and activities on-going or finished which didactic training/educational

results/materials can be useful.

Contact to exchange knowledge and to coordinate activities.

This task has to identify what is being done in the EU related to hydrogen technologies training, from when,

cots/effectiveness, European scope got or future possibilities, replication opportunities...

Links to other similar professional training initiatives in other EU sectors is sought (renewable, biofules,...)

Methodology: information sources´ search, interviews, surveys, ...

This task will involve the main partners of every country to get the best results.

Collaboration with the TrainHy-Prof project will be looked into for this task.

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Please indicate one activity per work package:

RTD = Research and technological development; DEM = Demonstration; COO = Coordination activities; SUPP

= Support Activities; MGT = Management of the consortium; OTHER = Other specific activities, if applicable.


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Task 1.2: Assessment of educational materials

Taskleader: WBZU (GE)

Participants: PHYR, FSV, WBZU, CPI

Duration: 6 months (from month 5 to month 10 included)

Description: Review currently available hydrogen technology teaching materials. Evaluate opportunities to

integrate hydrogen and fuel cell information into traditional and/or existing materials.

Alignment with Education and Training System: this will allow verifying in which way are singular and

standard the studied initiatives.

Contact with experts to assess the results of this task.

The task will allow detecting and analyzing the major gaps and needs to be covered in WP2, necessary to

define proposals at short- , mid- and long-term.

Methodology: classification by sector, level, modality, methodology, tools, duration and target public.

Task 1.3: Identification of funding programs.

Taskleader: WBZU (GE)

Participants: FHa, FSV, JRC, UNIDO, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP, CPI


Description: Identification of European educational programs and other transnational or national programs

which can contribute to develop new initiatives and projects to implement the project results such us

Leonardo, Marie Curie, IEE,...

Search cooperation and funding in these programs To launch proposals in a next step.

The task is quite important due to the limitation of budget in this topic and call. Quite a lot of efforts will be

invested on this point.

At the end the major aim is integrate all educational initiatives like one educational offer. At mid-term (10

years) the European educational programs should integrate hydrogen technologies training at different levels

or educational entities develop and set up profit educational offers based on one European training profile

defined.

Deliverables

D3: Best educational practices report: this report will collect the best (or “excellent”) European educational

initiatives which can be replicated in other European regions. The role of FAST (direct contact with

HyRamp) is quite important for dissemination of results. (Month 6)

D6: Standards of the different educational systems at different levels (Month 10). This report will facilitate

the future implementation of educational activities.

D2: Funding programs analysis report. (Month 5). The report set up the bases for launching of new initiatives

in the EU related to educational/training activities in Hydrogen Technologies and Fuel Cells.

Milestones

M4: Creation of a library with educational resources in the project webpage to serve the needs of different

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Work package title Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and outreach programs

Activity Type12

SUPP



Person-months per participant: 1 1 0.8 1.2 0.6 1.7 2.5 3.4 0.6

Total person-months 12.8

Objectives

Identification of the target groups and stakeholders by activity sector. Development of specific

proposals/initiatives to deal with and cover the educational needs. The existing programs will be used in an

efficient and effective manner for ramping up the obtaining of a well-trained task force.

Audience needs will be researched before new educational materials or programs are developed. It is

important work in parallel the target audience and the education objectives due to the needs are different too

often.

WP Leader: PHYR, Association Phyrenees (FR)


Description of work

Task 2.1: Identification and analysis of educational gaps and needs

Taskleader: PHYR, Association Phyrenees (FR)

Participants: FHa, FSV, FAST, PHYR


Description: The results of Task 1.2 will show the main gaps and needs to be covered at short- , mid- and

long-term.

The task will define a European strategic working plan to launch initiatives and proposals which help to

solve the situation in a right way.

The initiatives and experiences carried out or on-going, the standards of the different educational systems at

different levels and the industry and market expectations/ needs will be taken into consideration.

Task 2.2: Identification of target groups and stakeholders by sectors.

Taskleader: EnvP, Environment Park (IT)

Participants: FAST, UNIDO, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP


Description: Identification of entities, industries, SMEs, educational centres and other stakeholders

separated by activity sectors. Specialized distribution plans for high visibility materials, identifying partners

as necessary with hydrogen and/or education expertise.

Evaluate – and pursue, as appropriate- opportunities to work with industry and SMEs, to facilitate technician

and employee training. Contacts are expected.

The task will allow involving more entities, which benefits the project results and dissemination.

Based on this and on the results of WP1 the task 2.3 will be carried out.

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Task 2.3: Development of educational/training proposals/initiatives

Taskleader: EnvP, Environment Park (IT)

Participants: All partners

Duration: 12 months ( from month 13 to month 24 included)

Description: Development of specific proposals/initiatives to deal with and cover the educational needs at

different levels identified previously to develop the necessary human resource base.

Once gaps, needs, funding programs, educational/training initiatives, educational materials, target public and

stakeholders have been identified and analyzed the development of proposals will be an easier task.

The strategic working plan defined in Task 2.1 will be the guide for this Task and will define the work

methodology and the mains gaps to be covered.

All partners will contribute or participate to develop different proposals/initiatives involving different

countries with different educational programs.

Deliverables (brief description and month of delivery)

D8.Gap analysis (Month 15)

D6. Target groups and stakeholders identification (Month 11)

D9. Specific proposals/initiatives developed report (Month 24)

Milestones

M 12: Project End: Analysis and strategic working plan for educational activities in the EU related to H2

and FC (Month 24)


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Work package title Implementation of broad, efficient outreach education programs

Activity Type13

SUPP



Person-months per participant: 1 0.7 1.3 2.3 1.8 1.5 0.5 1 2.7

Total Person-Months 12.8

Objectives

Development of the identified actions and activities to cover different levels and audiences identified at

short- mid-term in hydrogen technologies and fuel cells.

Training pilot actions for validation of didactic resources and activities.

WP leader: CPI, Centre for Process Innovation (UK)


Description of work

Task 3.1 Launching of proposals.

Taskleader: CPI, Centre for Process Innovation (UK)

Participants: FHa, FAST, UNIDO, CPI


Description: The funding programs identified will be used for supporting the developed proposals. Contacts

with the different programs, educational entities and authorities to explain the proposals are expected.

At mid-term the sought aim is to set up the bases of a European curriculum in hydrogen technologies at

different levels but taking into account that training should be offered only by qualified and accredited

organizations thus some design and accrediting effort may be necessary to help build confidence

Task 3.2 Pilot action

Taskleader: CPI, Centre for Process Innovation (UK)

Participants: FHa, FSV, UNIDO, JRC, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP, CPI


Description: During the project two pilot actions (minimum) will be carried out to test and implement the

initiatives, educational materials identified and didactic resources. Different methodologies are taken into

account (presential, e-learning,...) due to the competences of the partnership.

The minimum person-weeks to train on the pilot actions are 200 person-weeks including different activities

as e-learning, practices, presential courses, small workshops,... Progress of studies can be monitored by

performing regular tests and asking feedback.

SMEs and industry will be an important part for validation of training resources.

The training pilot actions will be organized by partners who already have experience in running such training

courses such the JRC, CPI, UNIDO-ICHET, FSV, EnvP and WBZU.

In addition, some of the partners have apart from large experience in educational programs related to

hydrogen technologies; they have facilities, means and resources to organize and carried out in collaboration

transnational pilot actions for the validation of educational materials in a cost-effective way. The partnership

gives strength to this proposal and assures the realization of the activities as it is shown below:

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WBZU: The fuel cell education and training center Ulm (Weiterbildungszentrum Brennstoffzelle Ulm).

Providing high level education and training in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen technology addressing the

needs all the different target groups from trade, industry, academia, and schools is the society’s key task.

They have two seminars rooms (each for up to 30 persons) and 7 labs for practical training (test benches,

etc). WBZU will organize one of the pilot actions for “training the trainers”.

San Valero Foundation (ES): For awareness purposes, as well as for validating the results and testing a

demonstration activity (pilot action) will be carried out in the existing e-learning platform in four languages

(ES, IT, EN and GE) of the project H2-training (Leonardo Program), which has develop the curricula design

in four languages for technicians in hydrogen technologies and a manual for training of trainers.

E-learning activities facilitate the access of more pupils/trainees from companies, research centers and other

target groups that will be identified by levels and sectors. The results of other educational projects/initiatives

(manuals, good practices, curricula,…) will be asked for and used to improve the training materials too. The

collaboration with other educational/training actions will be sought.

Association Midi Phyrenees (FR) is specialized in e-learning aspects too.

Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES) FHa has participated in H2-training project funded by Leonardo

Program, organizes and participates in university courses and e-learning initiatives related to hydrogen and

fuel cells. Its installations and labs are used for organizing practices in different Master and University

courses and It has organized several scientific congress and workshops related to hydrogen technologies. It

has good relationship with authorities and industry.

Environment Park (IT) has the HySy Lab (Hydrogen System Laboratory), a centre of excellence for

hydrogen technologies. HysyLab was conceived as a centre of aggregation for the Piedmont Hydrogen

System and for people working in the sector, as a support laboratory for small and medium-sized companies

and as a training centre for future technicians working in the applied research sector. They also have

experience and competences in educational programs and activities.

UNIDO ICHET (TK) is particularly concerned with the role of education for the implementation of a

hydrogen inclusive economy. ICHET gives short training courses and organizes workshops to graduate

students, academics and government agencies about hydrogen technologies, hydrogen production, storage,

safety, fuel cell technologies and system integration. These courses, given by internationally known experts,

also provide practical demonstrations and an opportunity to use the Centre's fuel cell test and analytical

measurements laboratory for the most advanced research in the field. ICHET has a state of the art fuel cell

and analytical testing laboratories. These laboratories are equipped with state of the art equipment for

research as well as educational and training activities to give students opportunity to do hands-on

experimentation and integration.

FAST (BE) has also been part of the former European OPET and IRC networks of the European

Commission and is part of the new EU Enterprise Europe Network. Through these activities FAST has built

a vast network of local sustainable energy and transport contacts in national and regional energy and

innovation agencies in Europe, as well as an excellent standing with the European Commission. It also has

built an expertise in organizing training courses on environmental management and impact assessment

through its collaboration with the Italian VIA centre for environmental impact assessment.

JRC (BE) has state-of-the-art fuel cell and hydrogen test facilities at its disposal. They make it a valuable

partner in many research fields and through numerous collaborations, access to many facilities is granted to

young researchers and scientists via dedicated calls, within research collaborations and by providing hands-

on training opportunities. With respect to sustainability in the energy sector and the safe, secure and efficient

energy production, distribution and use, the focus of the JRC's work is be on new and renewable energy

sources and carriers, including hydrogen, where solid competences have already been developed and mainly

to provide support to Community policies.

CPI (UK): CPI’s location rests within a large hydrogen production area, therefore the region has many

organizations who have experience of working with Hydrogen and who would benefit from specialist Fuel

Cell & Hydrogen training.

Technologists from around the country are taking advantage of CPI’s fuel cell and hydrogen testing

laboratories. CPI has also successfully demonstrated the use of hydrogen as an energy store several times –

most notably in the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell powered lighthouse on Teesside.

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=1790&lang=en


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D 10– Report of proposals and new initiatives launched (month 24)

D 11– Pilot actions report. Results and lessons learnt. (month 24)

Milestones

M 7 –Pilot action 1 (month 19)

M 8 –Pilot action 2 (month 20)



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Work package title Management, monitoring and assessment

Activity Type14

MGT



Person-months per participant: 3 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.6


Objectives

Management of the consortium activities and administrative work to report to the European Commission.

Adequate assignment of resources, monitoring, assessment, verification and validation of the results obtained

during the project life.

Every partner is involved in every WP due to it is necessary the participation of all countries to reach

successfully the best results. The responsibility has been split into WPs and Tasks to facilitate the

management.

Some of them have been working together in other projects or have previous relations (by means of

N.ERGHY, HyRamp, EHA,…). We consider that this is not a risk for the project. The decision making

process is based on consensus which has been easy to achieve in the past.

WP Leader: Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES)

Duration: 24 months (all project life)

Description of work

Task 4.1: Global management. Taskleader: Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES)

Participants:FHa


Description: Administrative and financial affairs relating to the project, with contributions of all partners.

Task 4.2: Organize and preside project meetings Taskleader: Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES)

Participants: FHa

Duration: 12 months (months 1-4, months 9-12 and months 21-24)

Description: Elaboration of meeting agendas; organization, minutes of the meetings, etc.

Task 4.3: Monitoring of project activities.

Taskleader: Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES)

Participants: WPs leaders, FHa, FSV, PHYR, CPI, FAST


Description: Budget execution; quality of work performed and deliverables control, monitoring of the WPs

tasks, etc.

The proposal contains a list of indicators of progress to monitor the project activities.

Task 4.4: Organization of financial documents and progress reports to be submitted to the EC.


Participants: FHa, FSV, FAST, UNIDO, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP. CPI

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Duration: 8 months (months 9-12 and months 21-24). 1 justification per year.

Description: Preparation of the financial report and financial statements. Collection, consolidation and

communication of all financial and administrative documentation regarding the Project to the Commission;

transfer of the funds from the Commission to the Consortium Partners, etc.,

In this point there is contribution of all partners due to all of them have to invest some resources to prepare

its financial justification.

Task 4.5: Control of any external communications.


Participants: Fha , FAST

Duration: 24 months (all life project)

Description: Regarded to project activities; papers; participation in conferences; press releases, etc.

Monitoring of all communication activities.

Task 4.6: Verification, validation and implementation of the results obtained.

Taskleader: UNIDO (AT)

Participants: All partners

Duration: 19 months (month 6 to month 24)

Description: All the results of the project will be evaluated and validate to sure the performance of the

objectives and the quality of its.

A final appropriate implementation guidelines and recommendations that should contribute to support policy

definition aiming at training and educational activities in Europe.

Some measures will be developed for tracking of progress even after the project is finished:

A hand-over after the end of the project, possibly through HyRamp, is considered to disseminate the

results at the European regions and to continue with the activities by means of the Educational Work

Group. This will value the implementation of results and the activities continuation.

The projects results will be available on the project website after 5 years of the project end. The

number of download and visits will be monitored.

Deliverables

D 7: Yearly project report (month 12). Interim report to JTI: technical, dissemination and financial

information, including the monitoring report.

D 12: Final project report (month 24). Final report to JTI: technical, dissemination and financial information.

D 13: Implementation Plan after-project. guidelines (month 24)

Milestones

M 1 – Kick-off meeting (month 1 )

M 2 – Second Meeting ( month 12)

M 9 – Final Meeting (month 24)

M 10 – Final report to EU (month 24): Financial and technical report



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Work package title Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan

Activity Type15

SUPP



Person-months per participant: 0.8 2.8 0.6 1 1 1 0.9 0.3 1


Objectives:

Provide a forum for debate and creative thinking regarding the opportunities of educational and training

activities related to hydrogen technologies.

Perform general activities focused in dissemination of the project and its results

Improve public acceptance and perceptions of the hydrogen technologies and fuel cells.

Create a point to exchange knowledge, experiences and educational materials with stakeholders, building

visibility.

Dissemination of results and activities to industry, public agencies, training/educational

institutions/professionals and research

WP leader: FAST Federation of the Scientific and Technical Associations (BE)

Duration: 24 months. All project life

Description of work

To ensure widespread awareness of the project results an effective dissemination campaign will be set up

with the support of project partners and supporting organizations as the EHA and HyRaMP. A project

dissemination plan will be developed that will include a calendar of regional workshops a dissemination

package, website and general dissemination activities. Effective use will be made of existing educational

dissemination channels and networks established in previous EU H2 and FC projects, relevant project in the

Intelligent Energy for Europe and Leonardo programs. As many educators at technical training level will be

unfamiliar with the technology special attention will be given to the content of a dissemination package to

make them aware of the need to integrate training programmes on hydrogen and fuel cells in their training

programs.

Task 5.1: Dissemination Plan

Taskleader: FAST Federation of the Scientific and Technical Associations (BE)

Participants: FAST, FSV, WBZU, CPI


Description: Elaboration of a dissemination plan to cover different audiences: research, industry, SMEs,

authorities,... in the EU. The dissemination plan will be continuous updated.

A comprehensive dissemination plan will be developed to ensure that the project results will reach the

target groups of the project: educational institutions and networks throughout Europe, university and

research institutions and industry organizations the main hydrogen ad fuel cell industry. Together with the

programme partners, the national member associations of the EHA and the regional and local members of

HyRaMP a broad dissemination activity will be developed that will cover all 24 month of the project. The

dissemination plan will consist of the following elements:

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1. Identification of dissemination channels of existing fuel cell and hydrogen educational programmes;

2. identification of communication channels of European educational networks such as:

- EARLALL (European Association of Regional and Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning)

- ETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education)

- EUCIS (Plate forme européenne de la société civile pour l'éducation et la formation tout au

long de la vie)

- EUNEC (European Network of Education Councils)

- Network of National Academic Recognition Information Centres (NARIC)

3. Development of an effective dissemination package that is able to reach key decision makers in the

targeted educational institutions;

With support of the EHA national association members and the HyRaMp member regions and cities a

small group of project ambassadors in EU Member States will be established as a liaison with the project

consortium to facilitate presentations and main national educational conferences and feedback the effective

use of the project material in their countries.

4. Creation of a HyProfessional certificate to identify institutions that have adopted the developed training

material of the project.

5. Positioning of the HYPROFESSIONALS website with links to relevant educational web communities

and EU programmes and organizations (Managenergy, Convenant of the Mayors, European Training

Foundation etc.)

In addition the partners covering 7 countries in the EU will include the project results in their daily

communication activities (webpage, bulletins, newsletters) and events that they organized (by means of an

speech, a display, leaflets,…)

Moreover, some of the partners participate in European forums, associations and organizations (IEA,

HyRamp, EHA, Research Grouping of the JTI,...) which will allow getting high audience.

Task 5.2: Organization of annual workshops.

Taskleader: UNIDO (AT)

Participants: FHa, FAST, UNIDO, JRC, WBZU, PHYR, EnvP, CPI

Duration: 10 months (months 8-12 and months 20-24 included)

Description: Local authorities and regulators, technical managers from public and private sector constitute an

important part of the efforts to demonstrate and commercialize hydrogen technologies. For this reason,

specific hydrogen technology outreach and training activities are needed to establish the required knowledge

base and secure mid and long term human resource base for research and industry. Regional workshops will

be targeted to key decision makers and curriculum specialists of the main technical training institutions in

Europe. With the support of the national association members of the EHA and the Region and municipalities

involved in HyRaMP the most important technical training institutes in each EU country will be identified.

The workshops will be held in conjunction with technical training events to attract the widest audience

possible.

Workshops will be essential in disseminating the results within the broad European related to sectors. At

least two workshops will be run in different locations to try to attract as wide an international participation as

possible. The input for the workshops will come from the progress of the different WPs.

One of the workshops is expected to be organized in Istanbul, Turkey (Month 11). UNIDO will cost share

expenses related to this activity. Event will be organized with input from project partners and other

programs identified in WP1. Selection of lecturers and participants with their relevancy to hydrogen and

education is important for the success of the workshop. Workshop will cover educational aspect of

hydrogen. The target beneficiaries of the workshops are educational institutions, policymakers, research and

business communities, individual entrepreneurs, other public/private and non-governmental organization

who have the potential to make an direct impact on formulation and implementation of a relevant national


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policy in support of hydrogen.

Second workshop will take place in Month 23 in Brussels (organized by FAST and JRC) to address a wider

audience of educational organisation to bring together similar programs to discuss their progress and the way

to improve effectiveness. The workshop will be held in conjunction with a relevant European event, JTI

Stakeholder meeting. Together with the national ambassadors (see 5.1) a calendar of presentations will be

established for smaller local workshops including short project presentations and/or testing the material.

Workshop announcement will be made in advance and publicized through leaflets in other European

meetings and exhibitions to make participation widespread.

Any regular workshops and seminar related to hydrogen technologies and fuel cells organized by project

partners routinely will continue in their entities. Task leader will collect and disseminate these training

activities through reports and website announcement.

The project workshops will be held at the same time that project meetings to make the travels more cost

efficient.

Collaboration with the Hyfacts project could be looked into in this Task.

Task 5.3: Development of a website and multi-media communication tools.


Participants: FAST, PHYR, FSV, CPI

Duration: 6 months (from month 1 to 6) Then the webpage will be updated continuously.

Description: The website will have sections for different audiences (educators, potential students, general

public,…) and will be an interactive tool to allow direct input of partners and the target audiences. An online

database of exiting educational material will be integrated in the public section.

Online testing features to try out different versions of the final training course will enable broader feedback

of potential users of the course. The course modules could be selected to create customized courses for

specific purposes.

Web-based materials are an effective distribution system to serve multiple target audiences. (Previously

published materials will be reviewed and used as appropriate). When possible and as often as practical,

activities and materials will be tested and revised before being implemented or published to ensure their

effectiveness (related to WP1).

Once launched, they will be monitored and audiences will have an opportunity to provide feedback for

consideration in future editions or revisions. This process will help to ensure that audience needs are served,

education activities achieve success

The website will be a dissemination tool which collect all project results and will be a reference in European

training/educational programs related to hydrogen technologies and fuel cells.

The website will have an observatory to represent and show the entities which collaborate with this project

(industry, decision-makers, stakeholders, educational entities,…) due to the limitation of economic

resources.

To open a web resource that compiles studies, researches, theories, concepts, methods about hydrogen

technologies and fuel cells education that is relevant to educational practice for the usage of educators and

policy-makers.

Task 5.4: General dissemination of the project activities and result


Participants: FHa, FAST, UNIDO, JRC, PHYR, CPI


Description: Based on the Project Dissemination Plan and in close collaboration with the project partners

and ambassadors broad dissemination of the project results will be ensured at the following levels;


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1. European level: relevant EU programmes’ events and conferences of relevant European educational

organisations will be identified to organise presentations or presence with project materials;

2. National level: relevant educational events and at hydrogen and fuel cell events and to projects;

3. Regional and local level: through relevant events in HyRAMP member regions and events of other locally

operating EU organisations and networks.


D 1: Website design, logo and graphics (month 4)

D 4: Dissemination Plan and Dissemination material (leaflet,…) (month 6) including database of target

audience

D 14 Publishable report of results. (month 24)

Milestones

M 3 – Website with contents (month 6)

M 2- Project presentation to media. Launching event (month 3)

M 5– Workshop 1 ( month 11)

M 11 – Workshop 1 ( month 24). Final event

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Participant no./short name

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 Total person

months

Part 1/ FHa 0,5 1 1 3 0,8 6,3

Part 2/ FAST 0,3 1 0,7 0,6 2,8 5,4

Part 3/ FSV 2,5 0,8 1,3 0,6 0,6 5,8

Part 4/ UNIDO 0,5 1,2 2,3 0,6 1 5,6

Part 5/ JRC 0,1 0,6 1,8 0,1 1 3,6

Part 6/ WBZU 1 1,7 1,5 0,4 1 5,6

Part 7 / PHYR 0,8 2,5 0,5 0,4 0,9 5,1

Part 8 / EnvP 0,2 3,4 1 0,2 0,3 5,1

Part / 9 / CPI 0,8 0,6 2,7 0,6 1 5,7

Total 6.7 12.8 12.8 6.5 9.4 48,2

iv) Provide a graphical presentation of the components showing their

interdependencies

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Several significant risks have been identified, and classified into two types: Internal

and External. Most significant are listed below associated with the corrective action:

Internal

Lack of information: A private web page area will be created to share documents,

every 6 months the coordinator will hold a telephone conference with the partners.

One partner decided not to continue in the project – It will be notified, and the first

option would be other partner assuming this role, without any change. In other case,

the European supervisor will decide next steps.

More funding needed to realize WPs- Each partner will assume own extra cost by

itself, to achieve its part of the WP objectives. Other funds will be sought.

Not enough time to present a deliverable –The actual real state about the deliverable

will be notified before the end date appearing in work plan, and other date to be

presented will be proposed to supervisor.

Person involved changes – if someone who is taking part in the project moves away,

a substitute must be proposed by the partner, and continue with the previous and

future work, to achieve objectives related to his/her part.

Meeting cancelled – Another meeting date will be proposed within 1 month of the

delay, the coordinator will concrete the place.

Not technical results achieved – If the results are not as expected, and all efforts

have been made, they will be notified to European supervisor, before milestones

related to each topic.

Some partner does not achieve the objectives without previous efforts made – In this

case, firstly other partners will try to cover this work load, and rapidly it will be notified

to European supervisor, in order to revise the funding agreement.

External

HYPROFESSIONALS project not approved – If not direct European funding support

exit, the project will not be cancelled but objectives will be changed into medium and

long term. Other funding alternatives will be reviewed.

No more social interest for hydrogen technologies – the project will continue, and

special effort will be made for diffusion results, to re-encourage the social interest.

Institutional Barriers and Access to Audiences. Once audience information needs

have been defined and educational materials or training workshops have been

developed, they must reach their intended audiences to be effective. Institutional

barriers can complicate or inhibit access to target audiences. To avoid these

problems the Institutions and Public Authorities will be included in the Dissemination

Plan to be taught and informed about the technologies.

Regional Differences. Educational needs will vary by audience, but they may also

vary regionally. What applies to one country, region or city, may not apply to another.


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Serving the education needs of a single target audience may therefore require

multiple approaches tailored to serve the needs of various regions. This strains

resources and can complicate activities developed at the national level. The

participation of different countries (seven) in HYPROFESSIONALS Project with

different educational and training experiences and programs will help to implement

the activities of this project across Europe.

Lack of Awareness. Interest in hydrogen and fuel cell technology is increasing, but

there remains a general lack of awareness of hydrogen as an energy alternative.

Moreover, although world events have drawn new attention to national energy

security issues, there is little consensus about the severity of today environmental

problems or linkages to fuel choice. With little awareness, understanding, or

recognition of these issues, there is little impetus for change, and target audiences

are less inclined to embrace new technology. This problem is being solved by the

large dissemination campaign in media about the use of alternative energies, energy

efficiency and clean technologies in accordance with European Policies.

Lack of Demonstrations or Examples of Real World Use. Hands-on, personal

experience greatly enhances understanding and comfort with using any new

technology.


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2. Implementation 2.1 Management structure and procedures

FHa (Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon), as Project Coordinator (hereinafter PC)

shall ensure technical and administrative coordination (WP5), and will not only follow

the activities and technical work carried out by the partners in relation to the

established work plan, but also will follow the budgetary execution of the project, and

validation of project expenses.

The PC will be the official and unique interface between the Consortium and the

European Commission. It will be responsible for the recollection of the documents

and reports requested from the European Commission from the different partners

and send them at the requested time.

The project is divided into a set of Work Packages (WPs) which complement each

other and support the progress towards the objectives of the project. The individual

work packages again are divided into tasks.. Each work package will have its own

Work Package Leader and Task leaders (TL).

Each Work Package Leader (hereinafter WPL) will share responsibility with the PC

and support him in the coordination of the technical work to be carried out in the

framework of his work package (hereinafter WP).

WP Leader

WP1: Mapping of existing training programs in EU FSV

WP2: Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and outreach

programs

PHYR

WP3: Implementation of broad, efficient outreach education programs CPI

WP4: Management, monitoring and assessment FHa

WP5: Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan FAST

WPL has to gather the corresponding reports and deliverables of each partner

involved in the WP, validate them and, after the agreement, send them to the PC at

the requested time. WPL will work with the Task Leaders (TLs) to ensure the

fulfillment of objectives.

The work package management structure, again, is similar to that of the project. It is

headed by a work package leader who coordinates and monitors the tasks. In

particular, he monitors, steers, and controls the work within the work package with

respect to deliverables, timing, and resources according to the overall project

objectives. Below is a more detailed specification of the parts of the organization:


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Figure 5: Management structure

Reports

The PC will be responsible for the communication between the Consortium and the EC. He will consolidate the reports sent by the partners, and will submit global reports to the European Commission. The reporting itself will be in accordance with the FP 7 Guidelines for Reporting.

All partners will be obliged to submit to the PC the following information periodically:

Budgetary planning and control (six-monthly)

Annual Cost Statements

Annual Technical Report

Project activities reports (PRs, six-monthly)

Indicators of progress (six monthly)

The six-monthly and yearly reports will be submitted to the Work Package Leaders, who will gather the information, and submit a unique report to the Project Coordinator. The objective of these reports is to assess more deeply the project status. The report will be structured according to the work packages. Therefore will describe all the work carried out during the previous six months in every WP, explaining any major deviation in relation to the Work Plan. A similar analysis explaining budgetary deviations will have to be made.

The report will also express any technical or organizational problems, and suggestions to how they can be addressed. The partners will send reports to the different WP Leaders, who will put together the information, and sent a WP six month progress report to the PC. The PC will gather the information in these individual WP reports to come up with a global Six-Month Progress Report, which will be sent the European Commission.

Particularly relevant information to support, clarify and illustrate points will be included as the Annexes of these annual reports. Multimedia support (videos, images, etc.) and dissemination material will be included too.

Cost Statements will be submitted on a yearly basis by all partners to the Project Coordinator, who will forward them, together with the technical reports, to the European Commission (EC).


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Figure 6: Financial and Technical reporting to EC

Work Packages: The project is structured into a set of work packages, which, in turn, is partitioned into a set of work tasks, each having well-defined domains, partnerships, and resource allocations.

Each of the work packages complies with the objectives and schedules of the project and results in accordance with what has been agreed upon and within the allocated resources.

The work packages execute their own control over internal issues. If issues concerning other work packages cannot be resolved directly between those concerned, the issue should be handled by the Steering Committee (Coordinator and partners).

Responsibilities of the Work Package Partners:

To supervise and provide day-to-day management of the activities of the respective partner of the work area

Active planning and progress monitoring of the work area in conjunction with the work package Leader

The exchange of information on the work area with the other partners participating in the work package.

To provide knowledge developed in the work area and pre-existing know-how required for the performance of the project and for exploiting the results

To prepare and send to the work area leader a status report on their part of the work according to the reporting scheme.


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The roles identified on the project are:

ROLES TASKS

Project Coordinator

(PC)

The Coordinator is FHA. FHa fulfils the coordination responsibilities undertaken by the Coordinator under the project contract with the EU Commission.

Interacts with the European Community and third parties about the project, including the submission of deliverables to the European Community.

Receives, compiles, and distributes to the partners and other relevant recipients documents, reports, statements of expenditure, minutes of meetings and other information from the partners.

Work Package Leader

(WPL)

Responsible for coordinating the work of the WP and collect information from the partners.

WPL: Submits reports, deliverables, and required information to the Coordinator.

Task Leader (TL) Heads the work of the task, monitors its progress, and makes sure that resource allocation is not violated and that deliverables are done in time and in accordance with the quality specified. TL will report WPL

National Coordinator For those countries with more than 1 partner, one entity will coordinate the work in this country.

Associated partners These entities without budget but with interest to participate or collaborate in the project (HyRamp, EHA, Spanish Platform of H2 Technologies, Educational entities,...). During the project life different entities will be contacted.

Project Assessment

Annual major reviews will be held at which decisions will be taken as to the

continuation and direction of the project. Specific milestones and progress as

identified in the work plan are used for the objective assessment of the project at

these times.

Steering Committee to take decisions: One representative of every entity. One meeting per year.

Technical Committee: Constituted by Experts. To ensure the technical quality.

Quality Committee: To ensure the quality of the results. Constituted by Educational Entities.

Milestone Reviews

At the milestone reviews the progress of the project and the outlook for exploitation of results will be critically reviewed and compared to the planning and the review criteria described in the description of work. In case of insufficient technical results or poor outlooks for further results exploitation, it can be decided to stop individual work tasks or even the whole project. For the Final Assessment a special review meeting will be organized with the rest of the partners, and the European Commission representatives. A list of meetings dates and places will be fixed at the Kick-Off- Meeting.


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Additionally technical meetings can be held in order to evaluate the project technical development as well as provide recommendations to possible technical deviations. These meetings will be held on Work Package level and communicated through the Work Package Leader to the partners. If those meetings are to include cost actions or similar the project partners will be informed in order to discuss these as soon as possible and to provide realistic and fast solutions.

Decision Mechanism

The decision mechanism will be:

Kick-off meeting,

Six month overhaul/revision

Annual review meeting(s)

Final meeting – Exploitation final decision And tools to make up decisions will be:

Project Gantt Chart

Work Package and Task Descriptions

Milestones and Deliverables Schedule

Budget table. This management structure will allow the controlling of the progress of the project and the execution of the objectives. Any deviation from the planning or any problem will be detected on time without risk for the success of the project.

Different indicators of progress will be used for control project’s impacts, outcomes, outputs, and inputs and help to identify problems along the way that can impede the achievement of quality project’s objectives.

Some of the indicator of progress:

Number of internal meetings and minutes of the meetings

Budget control: expenditure control, number of purchases.

Human resources invested

Delays on timetable

Number of risks detected: time, budget, resources, external problems,...

Number of external collaborations (research centres, enterprises, educational entities)

Number of dissemination actions carried out ( specific indicators will be defined for action 5)

Number of deliverables

Number of articles published.

Number of new projects/initiatives launched for other companies/entities related with the results of this project

Number of industries and SMEs involved

Reports from the External Audit

Number of authorities contacted

Number of industrial sectors informed

Number of projects and activities evaluated

Number of workshops organized

Number of pilot actions launched

Other quality indicators will be used for make sure to achieve satisfactorily the entire objectives.


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2.2 Individual Participants

FHa,Foundation for the Development of New Hydrogen Technologies in Aragon www.hidrogenoaragon.org

The Foundation for the Development of New Hydrogen Technologies in Aragon (hereinafter FHa) is the main initiative promoted by the Government of Aragón Region to support the development of the new technologies related to the renewable energies and hydrogen. Currently the Foundation is formed by sixty three companies and institutions (September 2009) belonging to all the economy sectors. One of our main missions is to support the development of strategic projects that create employment, generate wealth and diversify industry simultaneously enhancing its competitiveness. To achieve this, our own resources will be invested as well as the support of international programs for the development and application of new hydrogen technologies.

The ITHER project, “Technology Infrastructure for Hydrogen and Renewable Energies”, promoted by us, comprises a whole test and demonstration facility for photovoltaic, wind energy and hydrogen. The facilities display a complete picture of current PV and wind technology, consisting of a 635 kW wind farm with three different turbines, a 100 kW grid connected photovoltaic installation (three panel technologies, four different sun-tracking systems), and an isolated 2.7 kW photovoltaic application (1 kW concentrated PV, 1.7 photovoltaic roof with two advanced panel materials). The facility includes hydrogen production by a PEM electrolyser, storage and fuel cells. Up to date, it is the only renewable-to-hydrogen project in the world that includes so many different technologies. An alkaline electrolyser will be integrated to produce hydrogen from wind energy, improving balance of plant and building a hydrogen fuelling station (finished at the beginning of 2010).

About training activities FHa has participated in H2-training project funded by Leonardo Program, organizes and participates in University courses and e-learning initiatives related to hydrogen and fuel cells. Its installations are used to organize practices in different courses and It has organized several scientific congress (EHEC 2005, CONAPPICE 2008) and workshops related to hydrogen technologies. The Foundation is member of the Research Group of the JTI and HyRamp. FHa coordinates the Task 24 and Task 18.b of the International Energy Agency (IEA). http://task24.hidrogenoaragon.org/

The Foundation has participate in European projects as HYTETRA (6th FP) about Technology Transfer in hydrogen technologies and nowadays is coordinating other European projects as HYRREG project (Platform to promote hydrogen projects 2009-2011 Interreg SUDOE IVB, SOE1/P1/E100, 1.3M€) and ZERO-HYTECHPARK, “Zero emissions using renewable energies and hydrogen technologies in building and sustainable mobility in Technology Parks” (LIFE+ Program, LIFE08 ENV/E/136, 2010-2013, 1.4M€). At national level is coordinating more than 20 projects in hydrogen technologies (production of H2 from RREE, solid storage, development of vehicles, test benches, logistic, hydrogen fuelling stations,..)

Participating Staff

Name Function Role in Work Programme Dr. Luis Correas Managing Director Representation, verification and validation of results,

interface to specialized institutes, authorities. General coordination. WP4 and WP5

Carmen Gonzalo Engineering and Consultancy Manager

Financial coordination and management, Media work, general project performance and contact point. WP4. Coordination of training activities, new projects and funds.WP3

Arturo Cabello Technician Identification of training activities, Knowledge in RCS, development of proposals and dissemination. WP1 and WP2

Leire Romero R&D Manager Launching of new initiatives, identification of stakeholders, pilot action. Assessment of results. WP2 and WP3

http://www.hidrogenoaragon.org/

http://task24.hidrogenoaragon.org/


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FAST, Federation of Scientific and Technical Association http://www.fast.mi.it/

Established in 1897, FAST – the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations, is an independent non-profit association acknowledged by Decree of the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Scientific Research. It represents 34 national scientific and technical associations with around 50.000 members from the industry, research and technology sector.

FAST, with offices in Milan and Brussels and a total staff of 12 persons, operates nationally and internationally, directly and through its member organizations, providing technical and organizational services to public and private organizations, as well as advanced training and vocational education initiatives, studies and applied research. In addition FAST for many years has been coordinating and participating in several European projects as well as facilitated participation in these projects of its member organizations. It has also been part, as the Italian representative organization, in several European networks, mainly in project and dissemination management. FAST is an ISO 9001:2000 certified organization.

Over the years FAST has built great expertise in facilitating the establishment of new associations in emerging technology fields, that have become recognized points of reference in their sector. Recent examples are the Natural Gas Vehicles System Italy (www.ngvsystem.com) and the Italian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, H2IT

(www.h2it.org).

FAST has also been part of the former European OPET and IRC networks of the European Commission and is part of the new EU Enterprise Europe Network. Through these activities FAST has built a vast network of local sustainable energy and transport contacts in national and regional energy and innovation agencies in Europe, as well as an excellent standing with the European Commission. It also has built an expertise in organizing training courses on environmental management and impact assessment through its collaboration with the Italian VIA centre for environmental impact assessment.

Since 5 years FAST has managed the offices of the Italian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association H2IT, that currently has over 100 members including ENEL, ENI , Edison, Air Liquide, Linde and several of the Italian Regions. In addition FAST, since three years, through its Brussels office, is managing the office of the European Hydrogen Association, EHA, (www.h2euro.org) that under its management has grown from 5 national member associations to 15 national member associations in two years. FAST, in collaboration with the EHA, since last year is managing the secretariat of the European regions and municipalities partnership for hydrogen and fuel cells, HyRaMP. The Partnership now includes 26 regions and municipalities. In collaboration with the EHA and HyRaMP, FAST since three years has supported the HYFED 6 secretariat that has maintained a database of educational programmes and materials on hydrogen and fuel cells.

Through FAST’s active involvement in these organizations it is able to mobilize a vast network of different actors in the hydrogen and fuel cell sector.

Participating Staff

Name Function Role in Work Programme

Alberto Pieri secretary general FAST

WP4 general dissemination coordinator

Marieke Reijalt project manager FAST/executive director EHA

National and regional dissemination cooirdinator.WP5

Rosaria Gandolfi project manager FAST

Meeting event organiser and participation in WP1,WP2 and WP3

http://www.fast.mi.it/

http://www.ngvsystem.com/

http://www.h2it.org/

http://www.h2euro.org/


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San Valero Foundation http://www.svalero.es/

It is 50 years history non-profit specialized in the training ambit and the expert professional qualification linked to employment and enterprises. It is the founder of the first private university in the Aragón region and promoter of the Institute of Environment.

Among its priorities, it highlights the innovation applied to Environment by means of expert qualification and validation of new environmental technologies through its Centre of Technological Applications in collaboration with more than 500 enterprises and institutions in Aragón.

This entity recognized by the regional government of Aragón „of social interest” trains above 3.000 people/year. It develops different innovation projects in collaboration with public entities and private at national level and international, stressing its actions in the Environment field and the renewable energy.

At international level, it has coordinated different innovation projects in the environmental area, underlining the two Life projects, which results have been effectively transferred to other activity sectors and territories and local legislation and regional resulted to be change for the benefit of the Environment.

As strength favouring the present project proposals, the H2 Training project highlights. It was promoted by the San Valero Foundation in collaboration with the Hydrogen Foundation, the FAST, the WBZU and Environment Park who are actually the partners of this proposal. This is an added value reinforcing the developments foreseen. An e-learning platform already available and tested within the former project will be of great interest for carrying out high-scale training in the Hydrogen field.

As essential distinguishing elements, it highlights the results valorisation after the end projects. This aspect leaded him to be awarded with different international awards and recognitions and the participation in international events and congresses in the ambit of the expert training applied to hydrogen and Environment. It highlights in its Management Board, the membership of the Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Federation, Professional Associations who are participating in their respective international networks at the same time, which will benefit the great impact of the project reaching certain stakeholders.

It is a pioneering training entity in promoting gradual approaches towards EMAS and it is certified in ISO9000 and ISO14.000

Participating Staff


César Romero Deputy Director Pedagogical support and expert in the educational field. WP1, WP2 and WP5

Nieves Zubalez Manager International Department

Technical, financial support and project management. WP3, WP4 and WP5

http://www.svalero.es/


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UNIDO ICHET http://www.unido-ichet.org

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), The International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET), based in Istanbul, with a mission to demonstrate viable hydrogen and fuel cell technologies towards hydrogen inclusive economy and to facilitate their widespread use, particularly in developing countries. In this regard, pilot projects, education programmes and supports for pre-feasibility studies are chosen as adequate ways to introduce hydrogen energy technologies to public.

ICHET is particularly concerned with the role of education for the implementation of a hydrogen inclusive economy. ICHET gives short training courses and organizes workshops to graduate students, academics and government agencies about hydrogen technologies, hydrogen production, storage, safety, fuel cell technologies and system integration.

UNIDO-ICHET Laboratory Infrastructure includes two state of the art laboratory namely as “Analytical Measurement” and “Fuel Cell Test” Laboratories. This infrastructure equipped with state of the art instruments gives researchers capability of doing R&D, PhD, MsD opportunities in hydrogen field. Collaboration with other institutes and research centers via student exchange, project assistant, visiting scientist or short-term stays is supported by the center. These facilities are already serving universities, R&D centers and Institutes for the hydrogen related research such as fuel cells, material development and characterization, hydrogen production, process control and solid storage. Beyond these facilities, UNIDO-ICHET has a series of prototype items like FC powered vehicles (Forklift, Golf Cart and scooter) and stationary applications (hydrogen powered back up system and renewable house) that may help to explain students real applications that are possible with hydrogen. ICHET is member to N-ERGHY Research Grouping, IEA, IEA-HIA and observing member to IPHE Educational Working Group. Existing Collaborations (at national and international levels) includes an MoU with the Joint Research Council (JRC) of the EC to jointly undertake R&D and Education activities in the field of hydrogen and fuel cells. ICHET is in the process of signing an MoU with the Hydrogen University.

Dr. Yazici is currently the Director of Fuel Cell R&D and Education. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering specializing in electrochemical systems with 12+ years of electrochemical engineering and fuel cell systems experience. He is currently responsible for managing several demonstration projects including fuel cell based UPS systems in two different locations in Istanbul, Turkey. He has 10 patents/applications and several publications covering electrochemical systems in power generation and energy storage applications including fuel cells. Mr. Gökhan Kepoğlu is currently working as the Centre's assistant manager. He has been involved in many demonstration projects actively and besides got experienced in organizing education related activities. Dr. Atanur is currently working as senior project scientist of Center. He has a Ph.D on Chemistry and has an academic background of research and teaching assistant and lecturer 8+ years in university. He is especially experienced on Analytical Measurement Techniques, process control and engineering and chemical energy processes. He is responsible from national projects in the center also he is coordinating the R&D works on the Analytical Measurement laboratory.

Participating Staff


Dr. Suha Yazici Director of Fuel Cell R&D and Education

Coordinator of the education and training activities in Turkey. WP1, WP2 and WP4

Mr. Gökhan Kepoğlu

Centre’s assistant manager

Technical support . WP3 and WP5

Dr.Osman Malik Atanur

Senior Project Scientist

Support to training and education activities. WP2 and WP3

http://www.unido-ichet.org/


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European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy

http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

The Institute for Energy (IE) is part of the Directorate General Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. Its mission is to provide scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of community policies related to energy. Special emphasis is given to the security of energy supply and sustainable and safe energy production. JRC-IE supports EU actions by executing its specific research programmes in the fields of clean and sustainable energy spanning both nuclear and non-nuclear domains. Typical activities encompass nuclear safety in the enlarged EU; clean, efficient biomass combustion and gasification, and harmonisation and validation of safety and performance assessment of fuel cells and hydrogen technologies. The Institute concentrates on S&T reference systems for policy support at European level, networking, especially in areas where integrated action at the Community level in support to policies is needed, and finally on mobility of scientific skills. It also performs contractual work co-financed by the indirect actions of the Framework Programme (FP) and work for third parties as well as work at the direct request of Commission Services. JRC-IE is the scientific coordinator of four research projects namely FP6 STREP Fuel Cell Testing, Safety and Quality Assurance (FCTESQA), and Non-noble Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (FCANODE), and SSA Fuel Cell Testing and Dissemination (FCTEDI), and FP7 Understanding of Degradation Mechanisms to Improve Components and Design of PEFC (DECODE). It was also the scientific coordinator of the FP5 RTN Fuel Cell Testing and Standardisation Network (FCTESTNET). As partner is contributed to the FP6 STREP fuel CELl application IN a new configured Aircraft (CELINA) and the SSA Harmonization of Standards and Regulations for a Sustainable Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (HarmonHy). Key personnel George Tsotridis is scientific co-ordinator of FP6 and FP7 research projects (FCTESQA, FCANODE, FCTEDI, and DECODE) and heads the fuel cell performance testing group at JRC- IE. He has 26 years of experience in management of institutional and competitive research projects and in modelling and simulation of fluid flow in materials processes.

Thomas Malkow is laboratory manager for the fuel cell test facilities responsible for experimental work, safety and quality assurance. He has more than 10 years professional experience in materials science and engineering gained for energy conversion applications including fuel cells.

Participating Staff


George Tsotridis Scientist Contributor to WP1, WP2 and WP5

Thomas Malkow Scientist Contributor to WP3 and WP5

http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/


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WBZU http://www.wbzu.de/

The Fuel Cell Education and Training Centre Ulm (WBZU) is located in the city of Ulm in Southern Germany. It is run by a registered non-profit society with 50 well-known partners from industry, trade, universities and research-centres. The focus of the centre is to offer information and training courses concerning fuel cells, hydrogen technologies, batteries and motor-driven CHP-technologies (combined heat and power technologies). Since the foundation of the association in 2002 numerous seminars, workshops, courses and lectures have been carried out. The courses are especially adapted for pupils and students as well as well as for technicians, engineers and scientists. To ensure hands on technology and practical training, different fuel-cell training and demonstration systems and are featured. Besides the training activities WBZU has been involved in several fuel cell projects on a national and European level, especially in the field of education, training and dissemination. (www.wbzu.de) Relevant experience of the key personnel proposed to work on this action

Organisation: WBZU – Fuel Cell Education and Training Centre

Name : Aigle, Dr. First Name: Thomas Nationality: DE

Qualification: Engineer

Staff category*: Expert

Short description of work experience, relevant to the proposal**:

In his function as manager of WBZU Dr. Aigle has carried out several seminars and lectures about fuel cells and hydrogen-technologies for different target-groups. In 2004 and 2005 he was associate lecturer for “energy economics” at University of Applied Science Ulm. In 2008 Dr. Aigle finished his dissertation on socio-economic aspects on alternative drives and fuels..

Organisation: WBZU – Fuel Cell Education and Training Centre

Name : Pioch First Name: Peter Nationality: DE

Qualification: Engineer

Staff category*: Expert

Short description of work experience, relevant to the proposal**:

Mr. Pioch is the technical manager of WBZU. He is lecturer at WBZU and carries out the practical trainings. Since 2005 he is associate lecturer for “energy economics” at the University of applied Science in Ulm. Mr. Pioch has created teaching materials for pupils, students and technicians.

Participating Staff


Dr. Thomas Aigle Scientist / Manger of WBZU

Coordination of WBZU activities. Contribution in WP1, WP 4 and WP5

Dipl. Ing. Peter Pioch

Engineer / technical manager of WBZU

Practical trainer, compilation of teaching materials. Contribution WP 2 and WP 3.

http://www.wbzu.de/

http://www.wbzu.de/


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Association PHYRENEES http://blogs.enstimac.fr/phyrenees/

The association Phyrenees was founded on 12 May 2008 and has several charter members. The president of the PHyrenees association is Senator J.M.. Pastor, president of Trifyl. The purpose of this association is to promote the creation of a «hydrogen community» in the Midi-Pyrenees region, by structuring from available resources to the final use. This has the aim of developing hydrogen technologies for sustainable development. At the regional level, the PHyrenees association is the coordinator of the « Vabhyogaz » project which has 5 partners: PHyrenees, Trifyl, N-GHY, EMAC and SOLAGRO (Association specialized in the realization of studies on the renewable energies). The basis of this project is the use of the biogas produced by the bioreactor of Trifyl to produce hydrogen. The activity on hydrogen is developing in the Midi-Pyrenees region and in the department of the Tarn. Several projects - which will need hydrogen - are underway, emerging or being taken in consideration. For example :

- Hydrogen shuttle buses for public transport in the municipality of Graulhet (Tarn) : 3 Nm3/h.

- A fleet of hydrogen vehicles for Trifyl : 7 Nm3/h. - A fleet of hydrogen vehicles in several towns in the Tarn : plans to operate a public

service fleet of hydrogen vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells in several towns in Tarn. During the first 4 years of the project, 12 vehicles (6 mini buses and 6 commercial vehicles) will be built and tested.

- A project for national test site for hydrogen technologies at the car racing circuit in Albi in the Tarn (50 Nm3/h).

Association Phyrenees participates in Hypac, the national platform on hydrogen and fuel cells. The purpose is to establish French strategy on hydrogen (hydrogen road map) The association is also one of the partners of the project Hyrreg, the platform for launching cooperation projects to implement the hydrogen economy in the SUDOE (web site, roadmap of the hydrogen economy in the SUDOE, technology watch reports, technology platform to promote and propose projects, information and dissemination activities). It is a member of Hyramp ((European fuel cell and hydrogen regions and municipalities partnership) board and is in charge of the topic “education”. It is therefore natural that Phyrenees participates and invests in the project HYPROFESSIONALS

Participating Staff


Carole Couhert Engineer (Research and development) Trifyl

Work package leader (WP2) and contribution to WP4.

Bruno Grano Research responsible (EMAC)

Technical support for WP1 and WP3

Patrick Blay Continuing education responsible (EMAC)

Technical support. WP3 and WP5

http://blogs.enstimac.fr/phyrenees/


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Environment Park http://www.envipark.com/

Environment Park is a unique experience among the European Technology and Science Parks thanks to the ability of combining technological innovation and eco-efficiency. Environment Park is a scientific and technological park and it aims to promoting the development of applied environmental research and facilitate the integration of environmental variables and factors into the production processes, bringing the worlds of research and business together. Environment Park supports technological research and innovation at system level, to foster the transfer of such contents to small and medium enterprises and to support the development of new laboratories. In the contest of the Park it has already been set up a new laboratory focused on Hydrogen technology called HYSYLab. HYSYLab was launched in April 2002, and it’s an Organisation founded by Environment Park, Polytechnics of Turin and the province of Turin, with the support of the local Authorities. They are a RTD laboratory specialised in Hydrogen, whose main activities are: Fuel Cell Test: Single Cell Test for low and high temperature PEM-FC. Fuel Cell Stack test with different power stations (1 kW, 5 kW, 10 kW and 20 kW). DMFC test station

Storage: Characterisation of hydrogen storage materials. Test of metal hydride powders and vessels. Design and test of prototype canisters

Production: Production systems with renewable energy sources. Hydrocarbon fuels reforming. Hydrogen generation from biomasses Environment Park, and HysyLab in particular, is partner in several European (HyTRAN, PEMtool, CRISTAL) and regional (HysyVision, FC-Auto, CelcoYacht, MicroCHP, MicroCell) projects, and member of JTI-FCH IG. Experience in European projects: Hy TETRA Project (2006-2008) 6th FP. PEM TOOL Project (2005-2008). HyTRAN Project (2004-2009

National projects: FISR Project- Innovative systems of hydrogen production from renewable energies (2005-2009) Regional funding: HySyVISION Project (2006-2008). FC AUTO Project (2006-2008). Micro CHP (2005-2009). CELCO YACHT (2005-2009). MICROCELL (2005-2008): project aimed at developing a methanol FC system for laptop computers and mobile phone power supplies. HYSY RIDER (2005-2008): production of a fleet of Light Fun Vehicles (LFV) powered by hydrogen PWS power systems with limited-power FC stacks (300 kW and 1 kW). HYDROGEN SCHOOL (since 2004): the project consisted in the installation of 8 HySyOne (educational lab to learn and observe all the hydrogen chain) in Technical Secondary Schools (one for each Piedmont district).

Participating Staff


Alessandro Graizzaro

HysyLab Manager Manager of WP´s works. Resources assignment

Davide Damosso R&D Director Coordination of WP´s activities

Rebecca Boasso Project manager Participation in WP1, WP2

Sabina Fiorot Engineer Technician WP3, WP4 and WP5

http://www.envipark.com/


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CPI, Centre for Process Innovation http://www.uk-cpi.com/

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) was established in 2004 by one of the UK governments Regional Decelopment Agencies, One North East to develop technologies in four main business areas, Hydrogen/Fuel Cells, Advanced Processing (Biotechnology), Nanotechnology, and Printable Electronics in order to stimulate and drive innovation within the Process Industry. The North East region of the UK has a well developed Chemical/Process industry which produces and uses hydrogen within the many chemical process industries. Therefore having access to the fuel and technology infrastructure to turn developing technologies into a commercial reality. Working with global industry partners and leading research universities CPI is committed to delivering worldclass ground breaking applied research & development together with closer to market commercial technologies. CPI’s Fuel Cell Application Facility (FCAF) works with the aim of establishing Fuel Cells and Hydrogen as a commercially viable Low Carbon energy technology. To support this aim, it has established a development centre designed to support all parts of the Fuel Cell supply chain. CPI Fuel Cells has also established a business cluster of local SME businesses dedicated to enhancing the fuel cell sector in the North East of England. The aim of the cluster is to create an effective network of organizations that have either direct or indirect links to fuel cells. The objectives of the cluster are:

To improve cooperation between industry, academia and the public sector To educate and create awareness on the subject of fuel cells To assist in the development of government policy and strategy To stimulate R&D in the region and beyond To build partnerships with the wider UK, Europe and the world To encourage working relationships and friendships to develop To identify and manage key market information for members To provide a forum for discussion of fuel cell issues To stimulate job creation, growth and exploitation of intellectual property To reduce carbon emissions in the region To improve the quality of life of people in the region

Bringing all these together requires the development of general and specific Hydrogen & Fuel Cell knowledge and skills. Therefore the development of an educational infrastructure is extremely important if this energy technology is to become a main stream commercial reality.

Participating Staff


Steve Broome Business Manager – Low Carbon Energy

Liaise with PC & internal CPI project participants. WP1, WP2 and WP3

Neville Slack Business Advisor – Low Carbon Energy

Liaise with PC and the other project partners to deliver the required project outcomes. WP3, WP4 and WP5

2.3 Consortium as a whole

http://www.uk-cpi.com/


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The project consortium is complementary in knowledge and expertise as can be seen in the entities information. Most of them have developed educational and training activities in their countries and have previous experiences in European projects/activities related to training in hydrogen technologies and fuel cells and technology development.

They know the technology and the educational programs moreover they have a close relation with industry and SMEs which will facilitate the involvement of different sectors (automotive, renewable energies, chemistry,...) on the pilot actions.

HYPROFESSIONALS Project has partners from 7 different countries, each with different educational programs. This will allow unifying criteria and facilitate the integration of the different project activities in the EU. Moreover the partnership counts on facilities, labs and workshops so important for the launching of pilot actions.

The strengths and complementarities of the different entities have been explained in WP3:

WBZU (GE): The fuel cell education and training center Ulm (Weiterbildungszentrum Brennstoffzelle Ulm). Providing high level education and training in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen technology addressing the needs all the different target groups from trade, industry, academia, and schools is the society’s key task. They have two seminars rooms (each for up to 30 persons) and 7 labs for practical training (test benches, etc).

San Valero Foundation (ES): It is an educational entity. They were the coordinators of the H2-training project (Leonardo Program), which has develop the curricula design in four languages for technicians in hydrogen technologies and a manual for training of trainers. They have implement in their courses training in Hydrogen technologies and fuel cells.

Foundation for Hydrogen in Aragon (ES) FHa has participated in H2-training project funded by Leonardo Program, organizes and participates in university courses and e-learning initiatives related to hydrogen and fuel cells. Its installations and labs are used for organizing practices in different Master and University courses and It has organized several scientific congress and workshops related to hydrogen technologies. It has good relationship with authorities and industry.

Association Midi Phyrenees (FR) is specialized in e-learning aspects too and has a close collaboration with the E´cole Des Mines de Albi.

Environment Park (IT) has the HysyLab (Hydrogen System Laboratory), a centre of excellence for hydrogen technologies. HysyLab was conceived as a centre of aggregation for the Piedmont Hydrogen System and for people working in the sector, as a support laboratory for small and medium-sized companies and as a training centre for future technicians working in the applied research sector. They have experience and competences in educational programs and activities.

UNIDO ICHET (AT) is particularly concerned with the role of education for the implementation of a hydrogen inclusive economy. ICHET gives short training courses and organizes workshops to graduate students, academics and government agencies about hydrogen technologies, hydrogen production, storage, safety, fuel cell technologies and system integration. These courses, given by internationally known experts, also provide practical demonstrations and an opportunity to use the Centre's fuel cell test and analytical measurements laboratory for the most advanced research in the field. ICHET has a state of the art fuel cell and analytical testing laboratories.


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FAST (BE) has also been part of the former European OPET and IRC networks of the European Commission and is part of the new EU Enterprise Europe Network. Through these activities FAST has built a vast network of local sustainable energy and transport contacts in national and regional energy and innovation agencies in Europe, as well as an excellent standing with the European Commission. It also has built an expertise in organizing training courses on environmental management and impact assessment through its collaboration with the Italian VIA centre for environmental impact assessment.

JRC (BE) has state-of-the-art fuel cell and hydrogen test facilities at its disposal. They make it a valuable partner in many research fields and through numerous collaborations, access to many facilities is granted to young researchers and scientists via dedicated calls, within research collaborations and by providing hands-on training opportunities. With respect to sustainability in the energy sector and the safe, secure and efficient energy production, distribution and use, the focus of the JRC's work is be on new and renewable energy sources and carriers, including hydrogen, where solid competences have already been developed and mainly to provide support to Community policies..

CPI (UK): the Low Carbon Energy Development Centre has specialist laboratories that are equipped to handle, test and develop fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. The Centre has access to an extensive range of partner organisations, with skills in analysis, process engineering and hydrogen systems.

Activity/skill

Partners strengths and complementarities

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FHa FAST FSV UNIDO JRC WBZU PHYR EnvP CPI

Organize training courses/seminars H2 & FC

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Collaborate in other EU projects H2 & FC

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Contact with industry/SMEs

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Contact with other educational entities

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Contact with national/regional authorities

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Knowledge of funding programs


Contact with EU authorities/EU programs

Yes Yes Yes

Knowledge in educational programs


Knowledge developing proposals

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Has facilities and labs for training (pilot actions)

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

As is shown in the table all partners have previous experience in European projects and work directly with industry and SMEs, which ensure exploitation of results involving them in the activities, initiatives and pilot actions. Vocational training has been identifying as one target for this reason on the proposal.

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HYPROFESSIONALS project will be undertaken by a well balanced team of Academic, Research and Industrial Institutions of renowned prestige with important know-how and experience in hydrogen and fuel cells, renewable energies, energy storage, demand management and other activities related to, from which considerable synergies will be generated, that guarantees the fulfillment of the objectives.

Next table sums up the Partner’s role in the project and their participation on the work packages and tasks. The work has been shared based on the skills of the entities. To get quality results partners of the different countries presented in the proposal take part on the main Tasks.

WP AND TASKS Fha FAST FSV UNIDO JRC WBZU PHYR EnvP CPI

WP1: Mapping of existing training programs in EU LEADER

Task 1.1: Identification of educational/training programs and

initiatives in the EUX X LEADER X X X X X

Task 1.2: Assessment of educational resources X LEADER X X

Task 1.3: Identification of funding programs. x X X X LEADER X X X

WP2: Proposals for specific initiatives on educational and

outreach programsLEADER

Task 2,1: Identification and analysis of educational gaps and

needs X X X LEADER

Task 2,2: Identification of target groups and stakeholders by

sectors.X X X X LEADER

Task 2,3: Development of educational/training proposals/initiatives X X X X X X X LEADER X

WP3: Implementation of broad, efficient outreach education

programsLEADER

Task 3.1 Launching of proposals. X X X LEADER

Task 3.2 Pilot action X X X X X X X LEADER

WP4: Management, monitoring and assessment LEADER

Task 4.1: Global management. LEADER

Task 4.2: Organize and preside project meetings LEADER

Task 4.3: Monitoring of project activities LEADER X X X X

Task 4.4: Organization of financial documents and progress

reports to be submitted to the EC. LEADER X X X X X X X

Task 4.5: Control of any external communications. LEADER X

Task 4.6: Verification, validation and implementation of the results

obtainedX X X LEADER X X X X X

WP5: Diffusion strategy and dissemination plan LEADER

Task 5.1: Dissemination Plan LEADER X X X

Task 5.2: Organization of annual workshops/seminars X X LEADER X X X X X

Task 5.3: Development of a website and multi-media

communication tools. LEADER X X X

Task 5.4: Dissemination of the project activities and result X LEADER X X X X


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i) Sub-contracting:

All partners have budget for subcontracting different services related to WP3 and WP5, which cannot be carried out by the partners, (workshops and pilot actions organization) which are inherent to any activity of this style: catering, leaflets edition and printing, didactic materials edition, dissemination services and materials,…

The consortium will work actively in WP5 and WP3 to get the maximum audience for the project.

Partner Budget (€) Activities to be subcontracted on the project activities

FHA 5100 The activities to be subcontracted are: design and edition of dissemination material, pilot action activities, …events organization services.

FAST 13900 FAST has budget to subcontract the creation of the webpage (dissemination and training tool) and image of the project (design, hosting, execution and maintenance): 12.000€. FAST will support JRC on the organization of the workshop 2 (catering, advertising, lecturer travel expenses, location rent,…) , events organization services.

FSV 8000 Support for the e-learning platform, design and edition of dissemination and training materials, digital contents,… events organization services.

UNIDO ICHET

6000 Workshop 1 organization (location rent, lecturer travel expenses, course material edition, advertising, catering,…) . Design and edition of dissemination material, digital contents…

JRC 0

WBZU 8000 Pilot action organization (location rent, lecturer travel expenses, course material edition, advertising, catering). . Design and edition of dissemination material, digital contents…. events organization services.

PHYR 4000 Dissemination and training materials. Dissemination activities.

EnvPark 5200 Dissemination and training materials elaboration. Subcontracting of services for pilot action. Dissemination activities and events organization services.

CPI 5500 Dissemination and training activities services (elaboration of dissemination material, advertising,..). Pilot action services.

55700

No other subcontracting activities are expected.

ii) Other countries: There are not third countries involved.

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2.4 Resources to be committed

The project duration is two years and the total budget estimated for 9 partners is 432.116 €, indirect costs included although the requested funding for indirect costs is 7%, as it is indicated on the manual.

PARTICIPANT (abbreviated names) FHA FAST FSV UNIDO ICHET JRC WBZU PHYR EnvPark CPI TOTAL

Country €

Personnel (including overheads) 44980 31820 30240 32300 30952 32520 31780 31920 52904 319416

Personnel 36600 25500 24200 25900 24544 25900 25400 25500 26500 240044

Indirect Costs (Overheads) (funding 7%) 8380 6320 6040 6400 6408 6620 6380 6420 26404 79372

Direct Costs 5300 6100 6000 6100 7500 7200 6500 6600 5700 57000

Consumables 300 350 300 200 300 300 300 250 300 2600

Equipment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Travel 4500 4500 4500 4500 4500 4500 4500 4500 4500 40500

Other 500 1250 1200 1400 2700 2400 1700 1850 900 13900

Subcontracting 5100 13900 8000 6000 0 8000 4000 5200 5500 55700

TOTAL 55380 51820 44240 44400 38452 47720 42280 43720 64104 432116

Requested EC funding 49933 47712 40314 40240 34287 43417 38133 39547 39954 373537

Man-Months 6,3 5,4 5,8 5,6 3,6 5,6 5,1 5,1 5,7 48,2

Average man-month rate (personal +overheads)/man-months 7140 5893 5214 5768 8598 5807 6231 6259 9281

The subcontracting costs are explained on the previous point 2.3.

The budget for the category “direct costs” is 57.000€. All the partners have budget for travel costs (most part of this category is for travel expenses related to project meetings and travels for the presencial courses, workshops and pilot actions). The category also includes budget for consumables and materials for the pilot actions and workshops organization.

The most part of the budget (55.6 %) is personal cost due to the project´s tasks: studies, identification of information, assessment, proposals definition and launching, contact with stakeholders and organization of different events (pilot actions and workshops).

Other items of the budget has been estimated and allocated to support these activities (subcontracting 12.9 % and other direct costs 13.2 %): Travel expenses for all the partners, dissemination materials, educational resources, website and image of the project, meeting rooms, pilot action costs,…

The partnership knows the limitation of resources for this reason the project planning has been design to optimize them (celebration of workshops at the same time that annual meetings, use of teleconferences and internet for working on WPs,…).

Partnership will disseminate the project and results using its usual dissemination tools: webpage, newsletters, events, hydrogen seminars, bulletins,… and they only have budget to elaborate HYPROFESSIONALS dissemination material (leaflets, webpage, logo,..…).


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All partners will contribute with their facilities for the pilot actions (presential or e-learning) and workshops organization and with additional staff (if necessary) which will participate in the project activities to reach the fulfillment of the project objectives:

FHa: The facilities of FHa display a complete picture of current PV and wind technology, consisting of a 635 kW wind farm with three different turbines, a 100 kW grid connected photovoltaic installation (three panel technologies, four different sun-tracking systems), and an isolated 2.7 kW photovoltaic application (1 kW concentrated PV, 1.7 photovoltaic roof with two advanced panel materials thin film and amorphous). The facility includes hydrogen production by PEM and alkaline electrolyser, storage (low pressure and high pressure) and fuel cells. Thousands of people visit our facilities each year and ITHER project was awarded with the Spanish National Industrial Engineering Award.

This project will be included in the daily dissemination activities to be more cost efficiency. Also the educational and training activities related with this project will be developed in parallel with the work that we do as Coordinator of the Education and Dissemination Group in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Spanish Platform.

The San Valero Foundation has an e-learning platform operative (mixed and distance learning), which is a suitable tool strengthening a wide scope of the training offer.

JRC: The JRC will contribute to this project its long term experience in fuel cell related research and testing including coordinating scientifically several European research projects and in disseminating results to international organizations such as IPHE, IEA, IEC and ISO. The JRC will commit staff resources and will offer the use of its test facilities for the purpose of the pilot action.

In addition to laboratories and meeting rooms, ICHET will make the following resources available for the project implementation: 1.5 tone lifting capacity Hydrogen-Fuel Cell powered forklift; Hydrogen powered passenger cart with hybrid system including 2 kw FC, batteries and 400 W PV panels together with 5000 litre hydrogen storage options; Hybrid scooter for the disabled with ICE, hydrogen and battery powers all utilized; Mobile home is a transportable container with 15 m2 usable space- a bathroom, a kitchen and a living room- powered by renewable energy resources (composed of 1kW wind turbine, 0.8 kW PV panels with an electrolyser, hydrogen storage, hydrogen oven, 2kW Fuel Cell, batteries and the other relevant auxiliaries and software); 5 kW fuel cell back-up power system to provide continuous power during electricity shortages. Some other prototypes that are in progress (hydrogen boat; mobile hydrogen filling station, etc) will be utilized during educational activities as well. All of the above mentioned items are in operation and always available to be used by project partners as training and educational purposes.

CPI Fuel Cells has a dedicated Fuel Cell laboratory to develop and test fuel cell applications. It has a number of non-regional business collaborators within the fuel cell industry who use CPI’s fuel cell facilities to test and develop their specific Fuel Cell technologies. CPI Fuel Cells also works closely with other EU and International Fuel Cell organisations. CPI also has a close relationship with another regional sister organisation, New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC) a national centre for the UK dedicated to accelerating the deployment and grid integration of renewable energy and low carbon generation technologies, utilizing wind, wave, tidal, solar PV and thermal power. CPI Fuel Cells also works closely with regional schools, colleges and universities with respect to Hydrogen & Fuel Cell educational training.


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Association Phyrenees: The school of Mines of Albi (level: higher education) has skills in e-learning and continuing education. Training for technicians needs the participation of these two kinds of stakeholders. In addition, laboratories and experimental pilots can be used for actions of demonstration (in the school of mines of Albi).

WBZU: The fuel cell education and training centre will contribute its five years experience in training of technicians, engineers, scientists, students and pupils. More than 100 seminars, trainings and lectures have been carried out. The centre has two seminar rooms which will are available for trainings in the project, e.g. workshops or pilot actions up to 50 participants. A unique feature at WBZU is its seven training labs. For all kind of fuel cell applications demonstration units are available: For example a 300W CHP- unit (stationary application), back-up power applications (up too 5 kW) and a direct 50 W methanol fuel cell system (portable applications) as well as a fuel cell stack of a fuel cell car. The systems are especially designed for educational purposes. For understanding the electrochemical basics WBZU applies small fuel cell educational kits.

Environment Park has the HysyLab (Hydrogen System Laboratory), a centre of excellence for hydrogen technologies. HysyLab was conceived as a centre of aggregation for the Piedmont Hydrogen System and for people working in the sector, as a support laboratory for small and medium-sized companies and as a training centre for future technicians working in the applied research sector. They have experience and competences in educational programs and activities.

FAST has been part of the former European OPET and IRC networks of the European Commission and is part of the new EU Enterprise Europe Network. Through these activities FAST has built a vast network of local sustainable energy and transport contacts in national and regional energy and innovation agencies in Europe, as well as an excellent standing with the European Commission. It also has built an expertise in organizing training courses on environmental management and impact assessment through its collaboration with the Italian VIA centre for environmental impact assessment.

3. Impact 3.1 Expected impacts listed in the Annual Implementation Plan

The impacts of the project that will contribute the Annual Implementation Plan

impacts can be separated into short-term impacts and mid- and long-term impacts.

Amongst the first, short-term impacts, the following must be noted:

Promote technological knowledge in Educational sectors

Disseminate the technology and the needs of specific educational programs.

Identify audience education needs

Creation of a website to collect EU education/training resources

Visibility of hydrogen technologies and fuel cells

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Set up the bases for implementation of hydrogen and fuel cells in educational programs

Involve industry and SMEs as final user of results

Promote links with similar professionals training initiatives in other EU sectors (biofuels, renewable energies, automotive,…)

With regard to the mid- and long-term impacts, the following should be highlighted:

Contribute to the development of educational programs in Europe focus on Hydrogen technologies at different levels, necessary for the deployment strategy.

To contribute to improve energy efficiency (Directive 2006/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006 on energy end-use efficiency and energy services and repealing Council Directive 93/76/EEC).

Saving on fossil fuels in electric power generation, making it less vulnerable to future problems in the supply of these resources by means of use of hydrogen technologies.

To promote the security of energy supplies for the European Union

Preparing labor force for the upcoming widespread commercialization of hydrogen technologies.

Necessary steps to bring about the expected impacts

In short term, the first and most important step to bring about the aforementioned

impacts is the formation of an appropriate consortium, in accordance with the

planned objectives. This stage has been, we believe, successfully achieved.

The second step will consist of the development of a suitable methodology to tackle

the work, including the structuring of the same in various work packages which will

permit the covering of the successive stages of the work, as well as the optimization

of the contribution of each partner, and the positive synergy of a complementary

group.

A third step to continue the labor of this project and the results exploitation is

planned: contact with other EU programs (as Leonardo or IEE) and Authorities,

launching of new proposals and initiatives, collaboration with other educational

institutions,… The project is launched with the idea of continuation to ensure the

necessary human resources base, a common aim of the entities involved.

We believe that the structure of the work and its methodology thoroughly covers the

aims of the project.

In the middle and long term, European and national support mechanisms to

incentivize hydrogen technologies have to be created. These incentive mechanisms

could include green certificates, investment aid, tax exemptions or reductions, tax

refunds and direct price support schemes, and should consider the external costs of

electricity produced from non-renewable energy sources and the impact of public

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For this deployment of technology the need for qualified technicians is extremely

important, and the EU has to be prepared in this sense.

Why a European approach is required

For the EU the results of the project will have an unquestionable importance, for the following reasons:

The EU is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels for electric power generation. The project will support efforts for implementation of hydrogen technologies by means of training activities.

Many areas of the EU are highly vulnerable to the contamination produced by emissions. A well-trained task force will facilitate the implementation of clean technologies.

Many areas of the EU enjoy abundant resources of renewable energies. To join educational programs in renewable energies with hydrogen technologies will favor them.

Many areas of the EU have imposed quite challenging future greenhouse gas reduction targets which will require the important introduction of many renewable energy technologies including hydrogen and fuel cells in order to hopefully achieve these.

Embedment in European national and regional research programs

The participants in the Consortium are currently, or have been in the past, involved in

numerous research projects, European as well as national and regional.

Most of the entities are not only related to training activities in hydrogen and fuel

cells, they have developed and integrated the technology. They have a solid know-

how with which the project has a direct relation.

Moreover, they have been involved in different educational areas and training

programs in their countries or regions. To share and to coordinate this knowledge will

benefit the project results.

Transnationality

Different countries (seven) participate in the project, so transnationality is assured. All

of them have different experiences in educational programmes and training activities.

UNIDO, as a non-profit organization towards developing countries, can promote

Europe as Center of Excellence for hydrogen education.

Other partners can take advantage of the contact with European and international

entities which can provide high dissemination of results across Europe and out (IEA,

HyRAMP, N.ERGHY Group, NREL,…), and to look for synergies and collaborations.

The initiatives, pilot actions, workshops and proposals launched during the project life

have the idea of involving more entities from more countries.

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HYPROFESSIONALS project has a triple European character. First, due to the

diversity of European countries which are involved: Spain, Germany, Italy, France,

UK, Austria and Belgium. Furthermore the project meets the particular prerequisite of

counting with at least three independent entities from three different countries, as

stated in the objectives of the 7th FP.

Secondly, the project is applicable to all member countries of the European Union,

since problems associated with clean electric power generation and energy storage

are clearly beyond borders and so are the benefits arising from the realization of the

project: to get a well-trained work force for the implementation and deployment of

hydrogen technologies.

Third, the expected results affect several areas which constitute important goals

which are central to the European Union policies such as promoting environmental

protection and energy saving; fighting the climatic change and maximizing the use of

clean energy and the independence of fossil fuels.

Support existing and emerging EC policies

Clean energy technologies and increase of energy efficiency that reduce the

emission of CO2 and pollutants have been successfully developed and demonstrated

with the support of Community funds.

Broad market introduction, however, is often hampered by high initial costs and thus

insufficient customer demand. Action at the European level is required to create

markets of sufficient size to bring down the cost of better environmental performance

technologies. One of the actions to facilitate the technology implementation is to

create a necessary well trained human resource base.

The Commission proposal for an EU energy policy [COM(2007) 1: “An energy policy

for Europe”] proposed an EU commitment to achieve at least a 20% reduction of

greenhouse gases by 2020 compared to 1990. Binding targets of further

improvement of energy efficiency by 20%, a level of 20% of renewable energy by

2020 have been proposed, to increase its share of renewable energies, in an effort to

boost the EU's share from 8.5% today to 20% by 2020.

Directive 2006/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2006

on Energy end-use Efficiency and Energy Services and Repealing Council Directive

93/76/EEC, foresees the need for improved energy end-use efficiency, managed

demand for energy and promotion of the production of renewable energy, as there is

relatively limited scope for any other influence on energy supply and distribution

conditions in the short to medium term, either through the building of new capacity or

through the improvement of transmission and distribution. This Directive thus

contributes to improved security of supply. Improved energy end-use efficiency, will

also contribute to the reduction of primary energy consumption, to the mitigation of

CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions and thereby to the prevention of

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Educational programmes will contribute and are the way to achieve the levels of

penetration of clean technologies foreseen.

External Factors

The project interest is based on several assumptions. First of all it assumes that

fossil fuels prices will stay high at current levels, or even experience further

increases, which will cause an important impact on the cost of electricity generation.

Also assumes that EC policy will be oriented towards the need for reducing European

exposure to volatile international energy markets. Both of these reasons will be an

important driving force behind initiatives to promote the use of clean resources.

The project assumes that the European commission will be interested in applying

every reasonable initiative to support Europe’s clean energy markets, and that

hydrogen technologies will have a very important part to play in achieving this

objective.

3.2 Spreading excellence, exploiting results and disseminating knowledge (for Coordination and Support Actions only)

WP5 is focused on dissemination and communication. This action lasts all the project

life and will have continuity after the finalization, guaranteed by the global objectives

of the coordinator.

In HYPROFESSIONALS Project the dissemination actions have to be generic to

announce the project and its results through usual tools, and to promote the

technological knowledge in adjacent sectors as well as the general public, especially

public with action capacity (educational sector, scientific sector, authorities, RES

sector and so on).

The objective of this block is that the project arrives to the highest number of people

interested, having targets like the scientific community, the industrial sector, the main

European agents, and furthermore the general public in order to familiarize them with

the new opportunities that showcase the technologies of hydrogen and fuel cells.

To guarantee the impact of the project dissemination, activities will be developed in

all participating countries through the elaboration of a web site, to disseminate all

project activities and the celebration of 2 workshops/seminars with industrial and

research sectors, authorities and public in general.

In the dissemination strategy a final guide will be elaborated, based on the results of

the project. The project is expected to contribute to the advancement in the field of

educational programmes at different levels focusing on hydrogen technologies or/and

which include hydrogen technologies.

More specifically, the actions are the following:

Development and maintenance of the website, which will serve as a

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technical community and the general public, to communicate the advances in

the project and the results.

Publication of the results in different media.

Elaboration of material for press requirements.

Presentation of the reports or posters in specialized international and national

congresses and events, such as the annual JU-General Stakeholder

Assembly.

A press conference with the presentation of the project (visits of journalist,

preparing articles for the press...).

2 public workshops devoted to training along the entire project to show the

evolution. They will be oriented to the participation of companies and

enterprises, SMEs, but also authorities and general public to teach them about

the benefices hydrogen technologies. The dissemination of this action will be

conducted by means of electronic mailing, publication on websites, brochures,

posters...).

Different actions of the project will result in different reports; most of them will be

disseminated in electronic format.

Indicators of progress

Some indicators of this block that will allow measuring the dissemination,

communication and formation activities:

Number of workshops organized

Number of attendees at the workshops

Number of oral presentations given about the project

Number of visits on the website

Number of documents available on the website

Number of document’s downloads from the website

Project appearance on other websites

Project’s appearances in the media (TV, Radio, magazines, papers...)

Number of brochures and leaflets of the project edited

Number of persons that contact the consortium interested in these

technologies (by phone, e-mail,...)

Number of public authorities informed

Number of scientific /technical publications

Number of posters sent to Congresses

Number of SMEs involved

Number of industrial sectors involved

Number of companies informed

Other materials edited

To assess the indicators some verification sources will be used, such as visits

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and minutes of the companies/entities contacted, reports of the collaborations, press

dossier, statistics from the website, list of mailings, annual dissemination reports and

so on.

Target groups

The initial target groups identified on the proposal are:

Authorities (European, National and Regional)

Educational organizations

Universities (scientists and students)

Technical schools (engineers and trainers)

Technicians ( vocational training: maintenance of equipments)

Industry and SMEs (different sectors involved: renewable energy, automotive,

chemistry, biofuels, components, plastic, engineering,…)

End-users and general public

Utilization of the results:

Public reports on results will be available on the website project.

Realistic plans for exploitation and replication of project results will be made. The

project activities will include the launching of new initiatives and projects and it will

look for support of other European educational programmes, such as Leonardo, to

continue the project activities and implement the results across Europe.

The partners will be able to take advantage of the project results to launch or improve

educational activities on-going in their institutions. In addition, other educational

entities and organizations will have available the didactic resources on the website of

the project to facilitate educational activities.

About the results with Intellectual Property Rights, we think that the project won´t

produce a private knowledge with IPR, the results will be public and spread at

maximum, although, in case of, the partnership establishes:

According to the Consortium Agreement to be signed, the knowledge shall be the

property of the contractor generating it. Where several contractors have jointly

carried out work generating the knowledge, and where their respective share of the

work cannot be ascertained, they will have joint ownership of such knowledge and

will be entitled to use and license such knowledge without owing any financial

compensation to each other.

Heads of terms for Consortium Agreement are the following:

• Consortium members will undertake to keep confidential information disclosed to

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• Where IPR arising from this project is derived from the contribution of just one

partner, then that partner will own the IPR.

• Where IPR arising from this project is derived from the contribution of more than

one partner, the IPR will be owned by all contributing partners. All contributing

partners will share in any income derived from the IPR in proportion to their

contribution to the IPR.

• All background IPR will remain the property of the originator and no rights to

commercialize this background are granted to other parties.

• Access will be provided to background IPR on reasonable terms where required for

exploitation of foreground IP.

• Each party may continue to use the knowledge generated in their own entity.

The project coordinator, in discussions with the rest of the project partners, will

determine if there are further good suitable opportunities for IPR development,

whether within one partner or in work between several partners, and a decision will

be made as to seeking a patent or not. If patents are not sought, then consideration

will be given to placing the associated methods and results in the public domain.

4. Ethical Issues No ethical issues are addressed in this proposal.

ETHICAL ISSUES TABLE

Research on Human Embryo/ Foetus YES Page

* Does the proposed research involve human Embryos?

* Does the proposed research involve human Foetal Tissues/ Cells?

* Does the proposed research involve human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)?

* Does the proposed research on human Embryonic Stem Cells involve cells in culture?

* Does the proposed research on Human Embryonic Stem Cells involve the derivation of cells from Embryos?

I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL X

Research on Humans YES Page

* Does the proposed research involve children?

* Does the proposed research involve patients?

* Does the proposed research involve persons not able to give consent?

* Does the proposed research involve adult healthy volunteers?


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Does the proposed research involve Human genetic material?

Does the proposed research involve Human biological samples?

Does the proposed research involve Human data collection?


Privacy YES Page

Does the proposed research involve processing of genetic information or personal data (e.g. health, sexual lifestyle, ethnicity, political opinion, religious or philosophical conviction)?

Does the proposed research involve tracking the location or observation of people?


Research on Animals YES Page

Does the proposed research involve research on animals?

Are those animals transgenic small laboratory animals?

Are those animals transgenic farm animals?

* Are those animals non-human primates?

Are those animals cloned farm animals?


Research Involving Developing Countries YES Page

Does the proposed research involve the use of local resources (genetic, animal, plant, etc)?

Is the proposed research of benefit to local communities (e.g. capacity building, access to healthcare, education, etc)?


Dual Use YES Page

Research having direct military use

Research having the potential for terrorist abuse


5. Consideration of gender aspects HYPROFESSIONALS project supports the EC policy on gender mainstreaming and

has foreseen the incorporation of equal opportunities for women and men in the

project. Most of the participating organisations and industrial partners already have

personnel policies and programs that strengthen the position of female employees,

and promote gender equality throughout the projects to address the gender

dimension of the research content, where appropriate. At the moment more than 7

women participate in the project.

Nevertheless, the technical objectives of the project do not entail a gender aspect

and besides, the support to hydrogen technologies in educational programmes will

create employment opportunities in different European regions, which will have a

positive impact on equal opportunities for women in a traditionally male-dominated

industry.


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Moreover, one of the objective of work package 5 is promote different actions to

achieve the highest number of people informed and interested, having as target the

scientific community, the industrial sector, the main European agents, furthermore

the general public without gender discrimination. The technology and the results of

the project don´t necessarily know about gender, although gender equality will be

promoted through the consortium.

Equal opportunity monitoring will be carried out to propose positive discrimination

measures that allow a higher female participation in training actions and taken into

consideration equality policies in the design of training offers.

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