SH2AMROCK - Ireland's Emerald Hydrogen Valley SH2AMROCK will deploy green hydrogen across key hard-to-abate sectors across the island of Ireland – including key infrastructure to enable the production, distribution, and use of green hydrogen. The 5 year-project, with a total investment of approximately €80m, will showcase the capacity of H2 to maximise penetration of RES through sector coupling, while facilitating widespread integration of renewable H2 into Ireland’s energy system. SH2AMROCK will realise this goal through the deployment of the country’s first hydrogen valley and multi-modal H2 transport hub in Galway – accelerating the island of Ireland’s energy transition and decarbonisation across multiple end-user applications.

DIAGONAL will bring SbD knowledge and tools to a development stage which can be implemented in the MCNMs and HARNs related industries, relying on experimental (in-vitro) and modelling (in-silico) research, to study specific hazard and exposure properties that MCNMs & HARNs exhibit along their life cycle, with emphasis in the interactions between NM constituents, with other particles and the environment, as well as their release rate and fate. While hazard and exposure determination will allow gaining understanding on the MCNMs & HARNs behaviour and evolution, multi-scale modelling will answer the questions "what are they?" and "where do they go?", through novel predictors for properties estimation, resulting from additive and/or synergistic interactions between components, as well as system-dependent properties. Ultimately, the obtained results will serve as basis to provide adapted or novel risk management guidelines, ready to use SbD tools and strategies to increase nanomaterials safety, including Sustainable-by-Design considerations, and recommendations for risk governance. DIAGONAL partners are involved in current R&D projects (NMBP-12-2017, NMBP-13-2018, NMBP-14-2018, NMBP-15-2019), networks (e.g. NanoSafety Cluster and EMMC) and working groups (e.g. OECD - WPMN and BNCT). The project will establish cooperation lines with the US nanosafety research community involving a US partner and integrating renowned US institutions on its advisory board, guaranteeing resource-efficient working plans, aligned with current EU and international efforts in the nanosafety field, and facilitating the use of existing reference platforms and databases. 7 industrial cases producing or using MCNMs/HARNs will participate providing data from scaled up scenarios, validating models, and implementing the novel SbD approaches and tools developed in the project. Exploitation activities and connection with Open Innovation Test Beds will allow mainstreaming SbD among targeted industries

LuxHyVal launches a flagship hydrogen valley in Luxembourg to boost the penetration of hydrogen by deploying green hydrogen initiatives across the entire value chain from local production to utilisation, including storage and distribution for a range of applications targeting industry and mobility, while also aiming to connect with existing/planned infrastructures. Business models, regulation and commercial negotiations are defined. Safe design and operation are ensured to deliver certified green hydrogen. LuxHyVal produces 650 ton/y that are used by several end-use applications in the mobility (i.e., private & public buses, light industrial vehicles) and industry (i.e., metal and glass manufacturing) sectors using 69% and 31% of the produced hydrogen, respectively. Strong commitment of key commercial actors along the entire value chain and political support in line with the Luxembourg Hydrogen Strategy aimed at fully decarbonising the industrial sector before 2030 is ensured as demonstrated by 80% co-financing from external sources. It generates different investments exceeding 38M€. Significant econonomic, social, environmental and political impacts are achieved. Digital Twinning for optimal planning and operation is delivered to support upscaling and replication, while public perception and professional upskilling deliver social benefits and equip the workforce with the needed competences. Lastly, the lessons learned and solutions are replicated in 2 Follower Valleys in Central (CZ) and Eastern (UA) Europe. The consortium include 19 partners from 7 countries (6 from Europe plus Australia) aligned with the Clean Hydrogen Mission covering the entire value chain, including energy engineering/integrator, network operators, technology providers, supplier of green electricity, end users in mobility and industry and RTO experts in digitalisation, public acceptance, environmental assessments, innovation management, and replicators from the follower valleys.