Title: Interregional Hydrogen Mobility Initiative for Europe (IH-MIE).

Funding body: Activity implemented within the Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument project “IH-MIE – Interregional Hydrogen Mobility Initiative for Europe”, co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101228317.

Duration: September 2025 – August 2028 (36 months)

Budget: €6.089.115

Consortium: 
-   FUNDACIÓN CTAG – Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia (Coordinator, Spain)
-   CEAGA – Cluster of Automotive Companies of Galicia (Spain)
-   NextMove (MOV’EO) (France)
-   FHA – Hydrogen Foundation Aragón (Spain)
-   AutomotiveNL (Netherlands)
-   SHVA – Podkarpacka Hydrogen Valley (Poland)
-   AUTOKLASTR – Moravian-Silesian Automotive Cluster (Czech Republic)
-   MOBINOV – Portuguese Automotive and Mobility Cluster (Portugal)
-    ITECAM – Technological Industry Association of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
-    LITTLE ELECTRIC CAR ESPAÑA SL (Spain)
-    CNH2 – National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Centre (Spain)
-    ARPA SA (Spain)
-    GreenTech Cluster (Latvia)
-    MS-VK – Moravian-Silesian Hydrogen Cluster (Czech Republic)
-    ID-Services (France)
-    Ecoinversol SL (Spain)
-    DLS-Drive Line Systems BV (Netherlands)
-   Zebra Group s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
-    Electrify SIA (Latvia)

Project description:

The IH-MIE project aims to foster innovation, accelerate adoption, and establish a robust ecosystem for hydrogen-based mobility in Europe. The initiative connects advanced regions (Aragon, Île-de-France, Noord-Brabant) with transitioning or less-developed regions (Galicia, Normandy, Podkarpackie, Moravian-Silesia, Norte, Kurzeme, Castilla-La Mancha), thereby contributing to strengthened territorial cohesion, industrial competitiveness, and the resilience of the European hydrogen ecosystem.

The project addresses critical challenges related to the advancement of hydrogen mobility, the reduction of regional disparities, and the empowerment of SMEs as key actors in Europe’s green transition. As transport accounts for nearly 25% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, hydrogen emerges as a transformative zero-emission solution, particularly suitable for sectors such as heavy-duty transport and public transport, where conventional electric options face limitations.

To achieve these objectives, IH-MIE establishes a Hydrogen Mobility Interregional Hub, which coordinates investments, drives innovation, and strengthens technological capacities across European regions. The project advances technologies from TRL 6 to TRL 9, providing direct support to 30 SMEs through cascade funding, technical mentoring, and specialized training. In parallel, seven leading SMEs will develop innovative demonstration projects to validate real, scalable hydrogen mobility solutions.

Aligned with the European Green Deal, the European Hydrogen Strategy, and Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3), IH-MIE contributes directly to climate neutrality by promoting sustainable transport, green growth, and SME-led innovation.

Specific objectives:

1.    Strengthen the European hydrogen mobility ecosystem through the creation of an Interregional Hub that promotes coordinated investments in infrastructure and technology.
2.    Support SMEs and regional clusters in scaling up hydrogen mobility innovations through cascade funding, technical mentoring, and business development.
3.    Advance hydrogen technologies to TRL 6–9 and validate them through seven demonstration projects in real-life environments.
4.    Reduce regional disparities and strengthen innovation capacity through targeted capacity-building actions.
5.    Promote international cooperation, visibility, and market access for European hydrogen mobility solutions.
6.    Ensure effective dissemination, communication, and exploitation of results, highlighting European leadership in sustainable hydrogen-based mobility.

Follow the latest news about IH-MIE, events and calls at: https://ihmie.eu/

Title: Green Manufacturing and Advanced Net-zero Technology Innovations (Green Mantis).

Funding: Part of the SMP-COSME-2024-CLUSTER action, co-funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101236363.

Duration : October 2025 - September 2028 (36 months)

Budget: € 2.702.969

Coordinador: 
-   ALPHA-RLH – Coordinator (France)
-  Confindustria Emilia Area Centro (Italy)
-  Itecam (Spain)
-   SOLARTYS (Spain)
-  Inteligentna Energija (Republic of Croatia)
-  PRODUTECH (Portugal)

Description:

Green Mantis project aims to facilitate the transition of the manufacturing sector towards sustainable and carbon-neutral practices by fostering the adoption and scaling-up of net-zero technologies.

Green Mantis brings together six leading European clusters covering the entire manufacturing and energy value chain, ensuring effective connections between companies, technology centres, innovation stakeholders, and public authorities. The project develops a comprehensive innovation support scheme designed to stimulate the development and adoption of new net-zero technologies, with a particular focus on electricity grid modernization, energy efficiency in industrial systems, and transformative technologies for the decarbonization of production processes.

To overcome the technological and financial barriers limiting the green transition of SMEs, Green Mantis provides direct financial support to innovation projects that promote the implementation of net-zero solutions in the manufacturing sector. These actions aim to improve industrial processes, reduce carbon footprints, and generate scalable and replicable solutions across different European industrial contexts.

In addition, the project addresses other structural challenges of the sector by offering free technical training and internationalization services, contributing to workforce upskilling and strengthening SMEs’ capabilities to access new markets.
In this way, Green Mantis acts as an accelerator of the green transition of the European manufacturing sector, aligning its activities with the priorities of the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Industry Strategy, and ensuring that industrial and energy SMEs have access to tailored, sustainable technological solutions that enhance their competitiveness and resilience.

For further information, please contact the Green Mantis Project Coordination Xavier Alberola, at the following email address: x.alberola@alpha-rlh.com

Follow the latest news about Green Mantis calls at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-mantis-green-manufacturing-and-advanced-net-zero-technology-innovations/posts/?feedView=all

“Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.” 

Funding programme / source: European Union through Horizon Europe

Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03; Grant Agreement No. 101217448

Implementation period: June 2025 – May 2029 (48 months)

Budget: €3 million

Coordinator: Institutul de Chimie Macromoleculara Petru Poni (Iași, Romania)

Participants:
-     ITECAM – Technological Industry Association of Castilla-La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain)  
-    Institutul National de Cercetare Dezvoltare pentru Ecologie Industriala, ECOIND (Bucharest, Romania)
-    Kemijski Institut, KI (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
-    Associacao do Instituto Superior Tecnico para a Investigacao e o Desenvolvimento, IST-ID (Lisbon, Portugal)
-    Opencom I.S.S.C. (Arezzo, Italy)
-    Unismart – Fondazione Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy)
-    Crowdhelix Limited (London, United Kingdom)
-    Farplas Otomotiv Anonim Sirketi (Kocaeli, Türkiye)
-    Chimcomplex SA (Borzești, Onești, Romania)

Project description:

Talent Pass is a European initiative dedicated to boosting talent mobility, knowledge transfer, and innovation in the field of the circular economy. The main objective of Talent Pass is to strengthen the research capacities of institutions from Widening countries, ensuring they reach the level of Europe’s most advanced organisations. This will be achieved through the strategic use of research resources (human, technical, and infrastructural), targeted training programmes, and research secondments designed to address current and future challenges in the circular economy.

The project brings together 10 leading research institutions and industrial partners from 7 countries, working collaboratively to reinforce the European Research Area (ERA) through inclusive, sustainable actions aligned with the priorities of the Horizon Europe programme.

Specific objectives of Talent Pas:

•    To foster mobility and skills development in circular economy, particularly among researchers, innovators, and talents from both academic and non-academic sectors in Widening countries.
•    To create a critical mass of highly skilled researchers equipped with the knowledge, competences, and tools to lead innovation and sustainability.
•    To improve access to excellence and consolidate an interdisciplinary network of highly qualified resources.
•    To promote the efficient use of available research resources (such as facilities, knowledge, and previous results), leveraging them jointly and in a coordinated manner, in alignment with Horizon Europe and the Circular Economy section of the Action Plan for a Cleaner and More Competitive Europe.
•    To reduce the gap between research and application by translating scientific advances into real-world solutions through closer collaboration between academia and industry.

Find more info about Talent Pass here: https://www.talentpass-project.eu/about

Financing by:  The Tech2nicians project has been funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ Programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.  

Call: KA210-VET - Small-scale partnerships in Vocational Education and Training

Period of execution: February 2022 – January 2024

Total budget: 60.000 euros

Coordinator: Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)

Participants:
- Samerimpeks Impulsi DOO Skopje Macedonia del Norte (IMPULSI)
- Fundacja Centrum Umiejętności Praktycznych CUP

Description:
The aim of the project is to introduce technical vocational students to the hydrogen market. To this end, a course and a workshop will be created to give students technical and business tools to develop an active role in the hydrogen production value chain. In this course they will learn about the production, assembly, installation and maintenance of hydrogen stocks.

The “TECH2NICIANS” project is co-funded by the European Union. The opinions and views expressed in this publication commit only ITECAM and its partners involved in the project and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union and the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE). Neither the European Union nor the SEPIE National Agency can be held responsible for them.

Financing by: The Echoschool project has been funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ Programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.

Call: KA210-SCH

Period of execution: February 2022 – January 2023

Total budget: 30.000 euros

Coordinator: Fundacja Centrum Umiejętności Praktycznych CUP

Participants:
- Industrial Technology Center of Castilla-La Mancha (ITECAM)
- Kćdainiq profesinio rengimo centras (KPRC)

Description:

The aim of the Echoschool project is to increase the environmental awareness of pre-school children and primary school pupils. To extend support to pre-school, primary and secondary school pupils with fewer opportunities and with social and geographical barriers.

Entity and Financial line: European lines of projects I4MS of 7º Programme.

Created together with Cottes Group and CYPE Engineers.

Fire in the Cloud includes two major goals: firstly, to introduce in the platform “CloudFlow” the CYPE-FDS software based on “Fire Dynamics Simulator” solver, property of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Secondly to develop a complete calculation about anti-fired systems in a shopping centre located in Spain.

ITECAM has participated actively in the creation and determination of the project together with two main members Cottes Group which is specialized in design and installation of anti-fired mechanism fully active and passive security in trade buildings and industrial spaces, and CYPE Engineers referred to the development of software pointed to structures, design and installation in constructions.

ITECAM manages the experiment under a technical and administrative point of view, coordinating several activities to be developed by each member of the committee. The Unit of Simulation would cooperate with Cottes Group in the confirmation of CYPE-FDS, through fired scenes simulations as an example of the real local working stations as well as through HPC architecture of CloudFlow project, supplied by Arctur Universe.

CloudFlow is a European project started in June 2014, whose main goal is the integration of tools as CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM and management of data in the cloud. The aiml is to allow technical staff in companies to computable scalable sources under demand as well as the previously mentioned tools, without invest in the acquisition of the software whose cost tend to be usually elevated.

Entity and financial line: European Network Climate-KIC.

European network Climate-KIC is one of the most important initiatives in the European Union referred to innovation against climatic change, composed by companies, academic institutions and public organisms. ITECAM was chose in 2015 to participate in “Pioneers into Practice” (PIP) project, a European programme that includes professionals, experts and enterprising to innovate in products and services able to decrease and avoid CO2 discharge to contribute into the development of a sustainable world.

Pioneers is a professional mobility programme in Network that includes technical staff specialized for two months, participating in the development of European innovative projects for the improvement of climatic change.

Concretely, there were elaborated stays for OTRI staff in LISITT (Integrated Laboratory of Intelligence Systems and Technology of Traffic Information), a group of investigation and integrated development inside IRTIC of University of Valencia or Bay Zoltán, Technological Centre of Budapest (Hungary).