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Research project ‘SaltCat: Can seawater impurities improve hydrogen catalysis?’ receives funding from NWO as part of the Open Competition Domain Science-XS package 26-2. At DIFFER, researcher dr. Nabil Khossossi aims to identify whether specific seawater ions and catalyst combinations can improve hydrogen production.

As of July 1, Niels Deen has been appointed scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES). In this next phase, he will work closely with Managing Director Diana van der Sloot to further strengthen EIRES as a leading interdisciplinary institute for renewable energy systems.

The SEPIS project has been awarded a Holland Hightech grant to improve systems engineering for physics intensive systems. This project is a collaborative effort between four parties: Ratio CASE (main applicant), Ignition Computing, TU/e, and DIFFER.

European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra gave the go-ahead for a major step forward towards a new way of generating energy in Europe: the establishment of a test site for a molten salt reactor. On Monday 1 June 2026 the official kick-off took place at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, where Thorizon develops, builds and tests key components for the molten salt reactor.

NWO and the National Growth Fund’s GroenvermogenNL programme are making €20.3 million available to make the nitrogen-based chemical industry more sustainable. This will fund the scientific research required for the use of hydrogen and green electrons in the chemical sector.