EU Funding Experts
Rome – Hydrogen & Battery Brokerage (UK–Italy Collaboration)
Date: January 2025 | Location: Rome, Italy
Hosted by: Innovate UK
Focus areas
- Hydrogen and battery technologies
- Cross-disciplinary approaches for decarbonisation
- Competitiveness Compass goals: resilience, innovation gap reduction, and security
- Case studies of proposal development led by FundtoInnovate Limited
Highlights
- Two intensive days of collaboration between UK and Italian R&D actors, start-ups, and policy experts.
- High-level exchanges on technologies and project opportunities under Batt4EU and the Clean Hydrogen Partnership.
- Joint identification of new areas for bilateral cooperation and shared project roadmaps.
Outcomes
- New partnerships established between UK and Italian organisations in the energy and advanced materials sectors.
- Development of early-stage concepts for Horizon Europe proposals under the Batt4EU partnership.
- Reinforced bilateral dialogue contributing to Europe’s hydrogen and battery industrial ecosystem.
Why it mattered
This first event of the 2025 series demonstrated how close UK-EU collaboration can drive Europe’s clean energy transition, transforming mutual expertise into joint, fundable projects.
