Certain fuel cells technologies or application still need to overcome some technical barriers before mass market penetration and therefore require sufficient and ambitious financing support to cover the RTD&D cost. This existing market failure barriers can be overcome with public funding opportunitities made available at the European level, national, regional or local. 

Funding opportunities represent the following advantages:

⇒ Enhanced success of the projects and economies of scale thanks to the conjunction of public and private funds

⇒ Leveraged investement and risk sharing facilities between public and private actors, as the current investment risks remain high. 

Identifying funding opportunities for fuel cells manufacturers is a crucial determinant to the smooth development of the technologies. 
That is why FuelCellEurope put a srong emphasis on funds opportunities for its Members by monitoring potential funds, identifying news funding opporuntities and communicating any new opportunities to its Members. 

The below paragraph features the main funding opportunities, existing at the EU level for fuel cells technologies development, demonstration and deployment. 

Please keep in mind that many other opportunities lie at the national, regional or local levels.

Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JTI

Call 2009 opened : for RTD&D activities Deadline for submission on 15th October 2009

Budget 2009: 71 M€

Find more details here

The main EU programme financing RTD&D activities is managed under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Other European programmes may finance fuel cells technologies: the IEE programme from the EACI finances technologies and project from the final prototype stage to the market accession phase. 

This section is under development and will rapidly be upgraded with further information.