Launch the Hydrogen economy & skills for heavy duty mobility in North-West Europe
Green hydrogen has emerged as a major challenge in the energy transition. While no European country had a national strategy before 2020, almost all have now approved a roadmap dedicated to green or low-carbon hydrogen.
Of course, the clean hydrogen won’t be used to decarbonize all the applications since the electrification is more indicated. However, for some applications like heavy duty mobility, green hydrogen or other green molecules will be the best option.
To launch the hydrogen market, the European commission created the Hydrogen Valley concept. The goal of the Hydrogen concept is to create un small ecosystem around a real production project (minimum 500 ton of green H2 per year). The final goal is to create interconnections between the different Hydrogen valleys to expand the H2 activities to a cross-borders project and, therefore, create a real hydrogen market.
Our program is aligned with this concept, as we will begin by presenting various hydrogen valley projects. We will then discuss how they can be interconnected. We will then delve deeper into the practical challenges of developing a hydrogen ecosystem for heavy-duty mobility:
- presentations of logistics decarbonization strategies,
- presentations from truck suppliers,
- and presentations of H2 training courses.
Program
Date: 14th October 2025
Location: Route du Circuit, 55 4970 Francorchamps
10h – Introduction
10h15 – Part I – Development of H2 mobility ecosysem in NEW
Topics
• Describe the goals/strategy of hydrogen valley project (with a usage in mobility)
• promote interaction between the valley, develop a commun regulation, favorize mobility corridor, …
Speakers
• Cluster TWEED (Green WaHyVe)
• LuxHyVal
• HyNorth (NL)
• HyCologne (DE)
• Polenergy (FR)
• Waterstofnet (BE)
12h00: trucks and car parade + pilot demonstration (Afpa container demonstration)
12h30: B2B Lunch
13h30 – Part II: Logistic and heavy duty companies’ solutions to develop this new ecosystem
Topics
• Strategy of logistics companies
• Real solution =>Presentation of truck suppliers
• discuss the obstacles and the best practices
Speaker
• Truck and boat supliers
• Logistic companies
15h00 Part III Skills and Training for Hydrogen Valley
Topics
• New technical trainings for mobility and industrial sectors (feedback and improvement for next years)
• Certificate training: certificate related to hydrogen environment and specific to hydrogen
Speakers
• Afpa (FR) + France Hydrogen given the task force on new certificate training.
• Technifutur (BE)
• Truck & Bus (M. Antoine) (LUX)
• RAI Automotive (NL)
16:30 B2B drink
Contact
Simon Habran, H2 project developer
shabran@clustertweed.be