About Hydrogen Innovation Centre
Our strategy
The Centre aims to enable a sustainable hydrogen society by facilitating world-leading research and educating future experts, through collaboration between our academic community, companies, policymakers and external research organizations. The Centre leverages Aalto’s existing research expertise across the entire hydrogen value chain.
What?
We create new solutions and competences for the hydrogen economy and sustainable energy systems. We aim to fill critical knowledge gaps in technologies and educate world class experts that are able make significant impact in industry and research organizations.
Why?
We support Finland in its goals to achieve carbon neutrality, energy self-sufficiency, and to take a leading position at EU-level, supplying 10% share of green hydrogen and e-fuels by 2030. Additionally, we aim to help Finland become a significant global hub for expertise in sustainable energy systems, and for the hydrogen sector to be a key driver of Finland's future economic growth.
How?
By facilitating and enabling world-leading research and educating future experts in the field. The Hydrogen Innovation Centre Doctoral School was initiated in 2024.
With whom?
Through collaboration between our Aalto community and companies, policymakers and external research organizations.
Collaboration and Impact
The Hydrogen Innovation Centre is strongly aligned with Finland’s ambition level in the hydrogen field, with the national objective to take a 10% share of the EU’s total green hydrogen production in 2030. The impact of the Centre is driven by very close collaboration with industry, with an Industry Advisory Board playing a key role in guiding our future research & education.
We organize events to bring together researchers and industry to share knowledge and discuss innovations needed for a sustainable hydrogen economy.