By Alexander Hellemans2021-04-09T08:30:00+01:00
France will intensify research on hydrogen with a €7 billion (£6 billion) project, the Federation de Recherche Hydrogène (FRH2), which launched last month. Around 300 researchers from 28 research institutions belonging to the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) will join the five-year project. 300 students, doctoral students and postdocs will also take part in the project.
Each participating research organisation will have a different role, explains Olivier Joubert, a professor at the University of Nantes and director of FRH2. ‘Research at the CEA focuses on industrial applications while the CNRS focuses on fundamental research. This gives us a broad range of competencies,’ says Joubert. And Jacques Maddaluno, director of the CNRS Institute of Chemistry of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Nantes, France, reports that a sc