Université Paris-Saclay and Elogen signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen their partnership in the field of PEM water electrolysis, a promising technology for the production of low-carbon hydrogen.

The signing of this agreement marks a new chapter in the partnership between Elogen and the University, which began some twenty years ago with various collaborative research projects.

This agreement will allow Elogen and Université Paris-Saclay to share their means and resources as part of a specific research program dedicated to PEM electrolysis.

The research collaboration will take shape through projects for students at Université Paris-Saclay, through a shared access to the parties’ R&D materials (in particular within the ICMMO experimental platform), and through joint participation in doctoral research programs funded by the French National Association for Research and Technology (ANRT), in particular CIFRE theses (Industrial Convention for Training through Research). There are also plans to create a joint laboratory with shared staff.

"This collaboration with Elogen perfectly illustrates the University’s desire to work with businesses to contribute to the socio-economic challenges of our time, and in this case, to low-carbon hydrogen production," said Sylvie Retailleau, President of Université Paris-Saclay. "The expertise of our researchers, as well as the cutting-edge characterization tools available at the ICMMO experimental platform, should allow for major advances, as part of a long-term relationship built on trust. This partnership will also contribute to the education of our students, by facing them with the scientific and technical questions of the large-scale application of PEM electrolysis."