Brussels hopes that getting scientists from different fields to work together on big issues will bring innovations such as viable hydrogen energy infrastructure to the market more quickly.
Hydrogen has been billed as a ‘green fuel’ for the future because it’s carbon-free at the point of use. There’s no shortage of ways to produce it, but these techniques have a crucial flaw: they all produce carbon, too.
In 2021, the EIC funded other portfolio themes, including emerging cell and gene-therapy technologies; engineered living materials; tools to measure and stimulate brain tissue activity; and awareness and consciousness in artificial intelligence.“The story of hydrogen will be a success only if it’s a story about innovation,” says José Miguel Bermúdez Menéndez, an energy technology analyst for hydrogen and alternative fuels at the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
The EIC “identifies where research innovation should go on the basis of specific evidence of what is missing in Europe, and so it is a completely different approach”, says Antonio Pantaleo, an energy systems and green technology programme manager at the EIC, who oversees the hydrogen-challenge portfolio. Programme managers such as Pantaleo have the authority to terminate or refocus projects funded by the challenge.
Not everyone is happy with the Pathfinder Challenge scheme, however, says Pantaleo. “We give specific intellectual property rights to the inventors, rather than to the university where the research is produced.” This, he says, has ruffled some feathers at research institutes across Europe, which have experience in helping researchers to develop intellectual properties.
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