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Enabling confident, informed and efficient hydrogen permitting.

PermittHy supports permitting authorities and stakeholders with practical guidance, digital tools and multilingual training to improve hydrogen project assessment and decision-making across Europe.

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Languages and countries covered by the activities of the PermittHy project
About the project

PermittHy

PermittHy supports staff involved in permitting processes, such as public authorities, industry and consulting engineers, with practical guidance, digital tools and multilingual training to improve hydrogen project assessment and approval across Europe.

PermittHy is a European project that helps strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to assess hydrogen projects in a clear and consistent way, addressing technical, procedural and regulatory challenges.

Project Timeline

Objectives

What PermittHy aims to deliver

1

Strengthening Permitting Capacity

Improve the ability of authorities and stakeholders to assess hydrogen projects clearly and consistently through guidance, training, and practical resources

2

Developing Practical Tools and Guidance

Provide a Best Practice Handbook and introduce contemporary tools to support hydrogen safety engineering.

3

Delivering Training and Skills Development

Deliver multilingual training through in-person and online courses, including Train-the-Trainer programmes, to build skills across Europe.

4

Ensuring Long-Term Impact and Integration

Align outputs with the Net-Zero Hydrogen Academy and support continued use through sustainable delivery beyond the project duration.

Core work areas

PermittHy Impact

Faster Permitting

Reduce delays by improving speed, clarity, and reliability of hydrogen project permitting processes.

Better Decisions

Improve understanding of hydrogen technologies, risks, and regulations for more confident and informed decisions.

Conistent Processes

Reduce differences between national procedures and support a more consistent approach across European permitting systems.

EU Market Growth

Support hydrogen project deployment by reducing uncertainty and increasing investor confidence.

Project outputs

Deliverables and Documents

Capacity building

Training

Coming soon... This page will introduce PermittHy training courses and act as a gateway to the Learning Management System of the Net-Zero Hydrogen Academy (NZHA).

Latest updates

News

EU funding

Funding acknowledgement and disclaimer

European Union funding acknowledgement

PermittHy project is supported by the European Union via the Clean Hydrogen Partnership - Joint Undertaking under Grant Agreement No:101251722

Project communication disclaimer

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Who PermittHy supports

Permitting authorities, policy makers, certifiers, engineers, emergency responders, training providers and hydrogen project stakeholders.

Imprint

The PermittHy website is coordinated by Birmingham Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
PermittHy Contact: coordination@permitthy.eu.
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