Funded by: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Funding Programme: Interreg Europe
Programming Period: 2021-2027
Project Title: Improving policies for engaging SMEs in the green hydrogen ecosystem
Acronym: Green Hydra
Duration: 01 Apr 2024 – 30 Jun 2028
Lead Partner: Ravenna Municipality
Total Budget: € 2,254,967
Partnership:
- Ravenna Municipality (Italy)
- Business Agency Association (Bulgaria)
- Lubelskie Voivodeship (Poland)
- Seville Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation (Spain)
- Donegal County Council (Ireland)
- Nicosia Development Agency (ANEL) (Cyprus)
- Municipality of Sogndal (Norway)
- Croatian Hydrocarbon Agency (Croatia)
- Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Latvia)
- Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen (Netherlands)
- Regional development agency for Podravje – Maribor (RDAPM) (Slovenia)
Project Description:
Green Hydra main scope is to improve policies from 10 regions of different types and levels – national, regional or local – to establish support initiatives and measures for opening the access of SMEs to green H2 development projects, from research programmes to development strategies, awareness-raising schemes, and pilot investments especially focused on involvement of SMEs across the whole hydrogen value chain, including R&D, engineering, manufacturing, consultancy, human resources upskilling and design.
The specific objectives are:
– probing the conditions for using green H2 in the key sectors involving SMEs
– identifying the potential key factors to activate the involvement of SMEs around the green H2 value chain
– supporting for the creation of a production chain involving SMEs
– developing new skills, knowledge and communication for green H2 for SMEs
– easing SMEs access to finance in the field of green H2
– upscaling innovations for SMEs related to green H2 products and services