from Renewable to Users

Conference description
Location
The organising Committee of the Euro-mediterranean
Hydrogen Technologies Conference (EmHyTeC2014) is
pleased to offer you this opportunity to join us in Taormina (Italy) for the next conference on hydrogen technologies. This conference will be organized under the best
auspices of the Working Party on Etrera 2020, an FP7
project devoted to the reinforcement of EuroMediterranean partnership between research centers and
industries working on renewable technologies. The conference will be centred on the role of hydrogen and fuel
cells in the value chain from Renewable energy sources
to Users.
The conference will be held at the Hotel Villa Diodoro
Via Bagnoli Croci 75, 98039 Taormina (ME)
You can expect a challenging and vibrant discussion
from a programme based on strategic topics dealing with
hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, the best national and
international speakers, as well plenty of opportunities for
networking.
From Renewable to Users is the slogan of this edition of
EmHyTeC. With this slogan we would encor age Lecturers and Researchers from University, Research Institutions, Industry and end users to participate with a contribution on the topics of the conference.
Topics:
 Hydrogen Production and Storage
 Fuel Cell Technologies Fundamentals, modeling and
simulation
 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Systems
 Renewable Energy Sources integration
Policy and Cross-Cutting Issues on Hydrogen and Fuel
Cells
Taormina today is one of the most known touris c resort in
Sicily due to the heritages of Greeks, Romans, Byzan nes,
Saracens and Normans that selected this place for living and
not just for poli cal reasons. A er the second world war,
Taormina was consacrated as one of the most beau ful city of
Sicily. The nature, food and arts are further a rac ons of this
pleasant city. Taormina is close to Messina and easily accessible from Catania airport.
International adivisory board
Zakarya AHMED
Luis G. ARRIAGA
Bruno AUVITY
Félix BARRERAS
Angelo BASILE
Michel CASSIR
Ana M. CASTRO LUNA
Radhouane CHTOUROU
Pierangela CRISTIANI
Bert DE CONVELAER
Erich ERDLE
Haluk GORGUN
Viktor HACKER
Figen KADIRGAN
Jochen KERRES
Hasuck KIM
Maria J. LAZARO
Silvia LICOCCIA
Shigenori MITSUSHIMA
Rafael MOLINER
Angelo MORENO
Piercarlo MUSTARELLI
Teko W. NAPPORN
Ken-ichiro OTA
Abdelkader OUTZOURHIT
Stefania PANERO
Elena M. PASTOR
Carmen RANGEL
Uwe REIMER
Mauro SCAGLIOTTI
Ashok K. SHUKLA
Giuseppe SPAZZAFUMO
Stefania SPECCHIA
Tanos STUBOS
Ana TAVARES
Edson A. TICIANELLI
Enrico TRAVERSA
Didier TRICHET
Panagiotis TSIAKARAS
Subramanyan VASUDEVAN
Marcus WIEMANN
Suha YAZICI
Conference Chair:
Euro-mediterranean
Hydrogen Technologies
Conference
from Renewable to Users
Gaetano Squadrito
Contacts
CNR-ITAE, via Salita S. Lucia
sopra Contesse 5, 98126 Messina.
e-mail: emhytec@itae.cnr.it
Fax: +39 090 624247
Phone: +39 090 624274
9-12 December 2014
Taormina, Italy
http://www.itae.cnr.it/emhytec2014/
Deadline for abstract submission has been
extended up to 25 July 2014
Published on June 2014
Partners
KEY SPEAKERS
Dr. Bert DE COLVENAER
Executive Director of FCH-JU
presenting an overview of the FCH-JU initiatives
for the next future and in the framework of Horizon
2020.
Dr. Jean-Luc DELPLANCKE
Programme Head of Unit for FCH-JU
presenting an overview on the role of hydrogen in
the future EU energy system. (ElectroHyPEM
workshop)
Prof. Ken-Ichiro OTA
Specially Appointed Professor at Yokohama National University
presenting a lecture on the transition metal oxide
for polymer electrolyte fuel cells.
Dr. Piotr ZELENAY
Team Leader for Electrolcatalysis at Los Alamos
National Laboratories
presenting a survey of the DoE projects and targets
dealing with hydrogen technologies including electrochemical hydrogen generation. (ElectroHyPEM
workshop)
Publication
A selection of papers from the EmHyTeC2014 will
be published in a special section of the International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy without any article
processing charge. Contributions to the journal will
be on invitation only. The invited papers will be
peer-reviewed, according to the procedure of the
journal.
The abstracts submitted to the EmHyTeC2014 conference will be collected in a book of abstract having an ISBN.