Division Article 1 Tasks

The FCH 2 Joint Undertaking shall carry out the following tasks:

1. (a)

   provide financial support to research and innovation indirect actions mainly in the form of grants;

2. (b)

   reach the critical mass of research efforts to build confidence in industry, public and private investors, decision makers and other stakeholders to embark on a long-term programme;

3. (c)

   integrate research and technology developments and focus on achieving long-term sustainability and industrial competitiveness targets for cost, performance and durability and overcome critical technology bottlenecks;

4. (d)

   stimulate innovation and the emergence of new value chains;

5. (e)

   facilitate interaction between industry, universities and research centres;

6. (f)

   promote the involvement of SMEs in its activities, in line with the objectives of Horizon 2020;

7. (g)

   perform broadly-conceived socio-techno-economic research to assess and monitor technological progress and nontechnical barriers to market entry;

8. (h)

   encourage the development of new regulations and standards and review existing ones to eliminate artificial barriers to market entry and to support inter-changeability, inter-operability, cross-border trading, and export markets;

9. (i)

   ensure the efficient management of the FCH 2 Joint Undertaking;

10. (j)

    commit Union funding and mobilise the private sector and other public sector resources needed to implement fuel cells and hydrogen research and innovation activities;

11. (k)

    foster and facilitate the involvement of industry in additional activities implemented outside indirect actions;

12. (l)

    engage in information, communication, exploitation and dissemination activities by applying mutatis mutandis Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013, including making the detailed information on results from calls for proposals available and accessible in a common Horizon 2020 e-database;

13. (m)

    liaise with a broad range of stakeholders including research organisations and universities;

14. (n)

    any other task needed to achieve the objectives set out in Article 2 of this Regulation.