Smart solutions for HYdrogen potential AWAReness Enhancing

SMART-HY-AWARE aims to promote hydrogen-electric mobility by tackling main infrastructural, technological (range anxiety related) and market uptake barriers related to hydrogen for electro-mobility through the improvement of PI linked to Structural Funds in Europe, addressing the transition to a low carbon economy, as clearly requested by objective 3.1 of the INTERREG EUROPE Programme. Specific sub-objectives of the project, to reach the main goal, are:

• Exploiting the potential of hydrogen technologies for electro-mobility involving the whole supply chain;

• Improving regional and local strategies which focus on real needs for implementation such as giving impulses for new models of fuel cells integration;

• Increasing efficiency of green propulsion in transport;

• Improving renewable energy grids to cut down electrolysis costs and IT management applications to enable advanced planning of short-tomid-term power productions and foster use of hydrogen power within distributed networks (Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Serhan Dermici, Chiu-Yue Lin, 2013);

• Increasing the deployment and the accessibility to refuelling infrastructure for both public and private sector in urban and rural areas;

• Supporting the deployment of alternative fuel vehicles in public transport by setting up regional financial support schemes;

• Promoting and assessing new measures favouring public-private partnership (PPP) in e-mobility sector, by designing suitable PPP business schemes to trigger hydrogen mobility;

• Enhancing the capability of public Authorities in developing effective policies for reducing the carbon footprint of transport activities.