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To make an impact on society with their work on electrolysers for hydrogen production, DIFFER collaborates with EIRES researchers and industrial manufacturer VDL Groep in a project funded by the Brabant Development Agency (BOM). Marius Ponten, Director of Special Projects at VDL Groep: ‘Learning by doing is the fastest route to innovation.’

The EUROfusion consortium for the realization of fusion energy has awarded fifteen EUROfusion Engineering Grants and ten EUROfusion Researcher Grants on 15 December 2021. Two grants are awarded to DIFFER researchers.

EUROfusion signed its Grant Agreement under the European Framework Programme Horizon Europe into effect. Under this new Grant Agreement, EUROfusion will direct and integrate research across Europe into a comprehensive R&D programme to realise fusion energy.

De landelijke adviescommissie voor elektrochemische conversie en materialen, ECCM, heeft advies uitgebracht om de transitie naar een CO2-neutrale industrie te bewerkstelligen. Commissieleden Richard van de Sanden en Klaas Jan Schouten boden de agenda aan EZK Directeur Generaal Bedrijfsleven en Innovatie Focco Vijselaar, en aan de boegbeelden van de Topsectoren Energie, HTSM en Chemie. 

DIFFER PhD researcher Luca Vialetto obtained his doctorate cum laude on 25 November 2021. His thesis is titled Modelling of plasmas for CO2 conversion: electron kinetics, chemistry and transport.