JST (President, Hamaguchi Michinari) has approved funding new joint research project in the research field of “Sustainable Hydrogen Technology as Affordable and Clean Energy”, in collaboration with 14 funding agencies from 13 European countries in the framework of the EIG CONCERT-Japan under SICORP.

EIG CONCERT-Japan is an international joint initiative to support and enhance science, technology and innovation (STI) cooperation between Japan and European countries.

In 2021, the eighth Joint Call was conducted from May 10 to July 9 in the research field of “Sustainable Hydrogen Technology as Affordable and Clean Energy”, to which a total of 32 proposals was submitted. Following in depth evaluation by the Science Committee Meeting and subsequent discussion among funding agencies that participated in the Joint Call, it has been decided that JST will jointly fund the 6 projects. The period of support is to last for 3 years, during which Japanese researchers in each project receive up to 18 million JPY in total.