Entities promoting the network
The H2CAT network is an initiative coordinated by Eurecat in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Rovira i Virgili University in collaboration with other entities and institutions that are committed to sustainability and the potential of green hydrogen.
The R+D+i H2CAT network project that supports the valorization and transfer is financed by the Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) and the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
Eurecat is the leading technology centre in Catalonia and the second largest private research organisation in southern Europe. It brings together more than 700 professionals, provides services to more than 2,000 companies, participates in more than 200 national and international R&D&i projects of high strategic value and has 181 patents and 7 spin-offs.
It brings together 4 research groups whose activity is directly related to green hydrogen and provides the industrial and business sector with differential technology and advanced knowledge to respond to the innovation needs of companies and boost their competitiveness.
The Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ) is a research centre of international excellence. Its headquarters are in Tarragona, on the Sescelades Campus, where some 230 people work. The three main lines of research of the 18 research groups that comprise it are: catalysis, supramolecular chemistry and renewable energies.
Research began at the centre in 2004 and over the years it has developed research of excellence and support to industry with transfer of results to companies.
The Institute for Energy Research of Catalonia (IREC) is a publicly funded institution created in 2009, based in Barcelona, which carries out innovative research in a wide range of disciplines within the field of energy science and technology.
IREC contributes to sustainable development through the development of new technological solutions, the promotion of scientific and technological knowledge related to clean energy and its efficient use, as well as the transfer of solutions and knowledge to market players. Activities include regional, national and international projects, as well as direct cooperation with major industrial partners.
UPC is the public university for research and higher education in the fields of architecture, engineering, science and technology.
It has a team of more than 100 people, in different units, who accompany and support the research community in the identification of funding sources; preparation and management of projects; establishment of contracts; valorisation, protection and commercialisation of research results; and publication of research.
The leadership of research and innovation projects, the talent and rigorous work of its researchers, and its network of leading facilities and equipment are at the root of the UPC’s outstanding position in the main international rankings of scientific production.
The Rovira i Virgili University (URV) works to promote all research activities of its members, with special emphasis on strengthening the different groups and the quality and magnitude of scientific production. To achieve this, the University has complex structures that work together and coordinate in this field, with research groups as the basic unit.
Partner entities
ICMAB-CSIC is a multidisciplinary centre focused on cutting-edge research in advanced functional materials in the fields of energy, electronics, nanomedicine, and their new applications. ICMAB is considered one of the most important research centres in materials science in Catalonia and Spain.
LEITAT is a private technology centre with more than 110 years of experience in industrial innovation processes, with a clear focus on generating competitive value and a sustainable future. LEITAT relies on a highly qualified team of more than 500 people, offering flexible multi-sector solutions to the fields of chemistry, energy, environment, materials, engineering and life sciences, from applied research and technological services.
The IDAEA is the main environmental research centre of the CSIC. Founded in 2008, the IDAEA was awarded the distinction of “Severo Ochoa” Centre of Excellence in 2020, highlighting the high quality scientific leadership and global impact of the work carried out at the institute. The IDAEA participates in the network as a research centre specialising in the field of underground hydrogen storage.
The University of Girona (UdG) is a public institution, which is part of the Catalan public university system. It brings together 117 research groups, 42 of which are recognised as Consolidated Research Groups and four of them are part of the TECNIO network. The UdG contributes to excellent training and research, and is involved in social development and progress through the creation, transmission, dissemination and critique of science, technology, humanities, social sciences, health sciences and arts.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the Spanish national supercomputing facility and a hosting member of the PRACE distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The Center was established in 2005 and houses MareNostrum-V, one of three European pre-Exascale machines. The mission of BSC is to research, develop, and manage information technologies to facilitate scientific progress.
The activities related to digitalization and advanced simulation software for hydrogen applications are conducted by the Propulsion Technologies group, which is focused on the development of modeling and simulation tools for hydrogen production, like electrolyzers, or utilization such as fuel cells and combustion-based technologies.
The UAB is a university recognised for its public service vocation, its strong commitment to the territorial and social environment, the high degree of autonomy, flexibility, dynamism and efficiency of all its activities and its healthy and sustainable campus management model. It is also internationally recognised for its contribution to responding to social challenges through innovation and ethical commitment, and for its interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research.
Geo sciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC) is a research centre in Earth Sciences with international projection that was created in 1965 as the first autonomous centre of the CSIC for geological research in Barcelona. Our main mission is to advance the study and understanding of the Earth System.
Our research revolves around 3 main axes: Georesources, Global Geodynamics, and Georisks and global change.
ICFO is a research institute and CERCA centre founded in 2002 with the aim of conducting excellence research in the field of photonic sciences and technologies. It brings together more than 450 professionals and has 25 research groups distributed in three strategic programmes in the areas of Health, Information and Energy, the latter including hydrogen generation and storage technologies, from catalysis to electrode and reactor design, as well as advanced characterisation techniques. ICFO also has extensive experience in the protection and valorisation of research results, with a portfolio of 120+ patent families, 50+ industrial projects and 11 spin-off companies to date.
The Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, with its official English translation Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and acronym ICN2, is a non-profit international research institute located close to Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). It is devoted to the generation of knowledge, materials and devices in the broad fields of ICT, health, energy and the environment.
The expertise of the ICN2 lies at the nanoscale, where new properties, interactions and ways to exploit them in everyday life are being discovered. Among its goals is to bring together scientists from diverse backgrounds in the pursuit of better science, better training and better outreach to society, while also seeking out new ways to engage with local and global industry.
Network equipment
Miriam Díaz de los Bernardos
Scientific Director
miriam.diaz@eurecat.org
Dolores González
Innovation Consultant
dgonzalez@xarxah2cat.org
Xavier Domingo
Communications Manager
xdomingo@xarxah2cat.org
Miquel Anglada
Technological Promoter
manglada@xarxah2cat.org
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