โ Scribed by Steve Barrett
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In January 2004, following the recommendation of the previously established High Level Group, [1] the European Commission set up the European Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFP). This partnership of more than 200 stakeholders is intended to prepare and direct an effective strategy for bringing hydrogen and fuel cells to market in order to exploit their outstanding environmental and economic potential across the EU.
An 'Advisory Council' of 35 representatives from a broad range of industry, EC, public authority, academic and non-governmental organization (NGO) stakeholders was set up to guide the activity, together with a number of subsidiary bodies (Figure 1). * Two steering panels were then charged with defining a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and Deployment Strategy (DS), respectively, in order to drive the transition forward. Both of these 'foundation' documents were endorsed by the Advisory Council last December.
In mid-March 2005 the European Commission hosted a conference in Brussels to review 'work in progress', opening up the SRA and DS documents for discussion by an audience of more than 500 representatives from industry, government, academia and other interested parties across the EU. Here we discuss the strategic overview as it presently stands, with the key elements from the Strategic Research Agenda and Deployment Strategy documents summarized below.
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