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Good news for the ENDURE project: two of our innovations have been detected by the European Commission Innovation Radar!

The first innovation is literally at the core of the alkaline electrolysis technology:
🔹Innovation Title: High-Performance, Durable, Zero-Gap Alkaline Stack Design for Cost-Competitive Green Hydrogen Production.
🔹Market Maturity of the Innovation: Tech Ready.
🔹Market Creation Potential of the innovation: Noteworthy.
🔹Key Innovators: Stargate Hydrogen, Université catholique de Louvain and Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden.

The second innovation brings the necessary modeling tools for advanced cell and stack design:
🔹Innovation  Title: Validated multi-level CFD modelling coupled with advanced X-ray  tomography for electrolyser cell- and stack-level optimisation.
🔹Market Maturity of the Innovation: Exploring.
🔹Market Creation Potential of the innovation: High.
🔹Key Innovators: Stargate Hydrogen and Université catholique de Louvain.

This information will soon be accessible on the European Commission's Innovation Radar platform.

Here ends another crazy week for the ENDURE consortium: after our positive online mid-term review on Tuesday with the European Commission, we gathered together in Stuttgart at ZSW for another of our special 2-day general assembly marathons on Thursday and Friday.

In short – and although not much about this gathering can really be called short – nothing could stop our technical discussions. Neither the coffee breaks, the lunch breaks, the toilet breaks, the local lab tour, the common dinner and the short walks in between those events; nor the management, dissemination and communication discussions, which had to be postponed to our regular online meetings.

The electrode development team is wrapping up its most promising candidates and preparing its first scientific publication drafts. The electrodes developed in the first half of ENDURE are already being tested in their upscaled versions in various types of demonstrators, while the baseline stack is running and the design of the prototype stack is undergoing subtle refinements; all of these elements converging towards intensification of alkaline electrolysis on a term that could not possibly be made shorter.

Thank you, Ben Haugk and Tobias Ludwig, for your warm welcome and the perfect organization of this assembly. Soon, the ENDURE project will enter its final year, and given how much energy we have put so far in our developments, we can safely assume that we have not seen yet all the fruits of our work.

ENDURE will be well represented next week at the ICE 2025 conference in Freiburg. Two posters and one talk, all of them will take place on the first day, Monday 25.08.25.

First, during the AEL: Catalysts and Electrodes session at 11:20, Anna Katharina Müller will present her talk: “Ni-Mo nanoparticles supported on MoO2 as highly active electrocatalyst for hydrogen production in alkaline water electrolysis”, highlighting electrode development advances within the project.

Then, during the poster session between 15:20 and 16:50, feel free to pass by our posters! Lidia Martínez Izquierdo will answer your questions about the “Validation of ENDURE testing protocols using a 10 kW baseline stack with Ni foam electrodes”, a crucial step towards the upscaling of the technology developed at the electrode level.

And during the same poster session, Renaud Delmelle will discuss the “Interplay between structure and electrocatalytic activity in flow-engineered three-dimensional porous transport electrodes for alkaline electrolysis”, focusing on novel electrode structures for efficient bubble evacuation.

See you there!

UCLouvain celebrates its 600th anniversary with a very special exhibition at the Musée L in Louvain-la-Neuve. The exhibition is called Happy U! and lasts from 05.06.2025 to 22.02.2026. That’s plenty of time to pass by!

The exhibition is structured as a flat, with the lounge dedicated to personalities who left their mark on the university, the corridor tracing the key steps of its evolution, the library revealing its hidden treasures and the terrace debating major issues faced by researchers today.

Actually, I forgot to mention one room here: the kitchen, where visitors are invited to have a look behind the scenes of modern research, following concrete examples of current (running) research projects. We are proud to announce that ENDURE is among the showcased projects (click HERE!)

More information about the Happy U! exhibition HERE.

More information about the intergration of ENDURE in the exhibition HERE.