Keyword Analysis and Project Classification of FCH 2 JU Projects

The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking has funded more than 240 projects since its inception in 2008, with the goal of accelerating fuel cell and hydrogen technologies to the marketplace to assist the transition to a carbon-clean energy system [1]. Priorities regarding the suitable areas for research, development and demonstration projects are under constant review. These priorities are regularly updated in the Multi-Annual Work Plan (MAWP) and Annual Work Plans (AWP). When establishing the calls for proposals, funding is earmarked to key priorities and research areas (the highest level of classification being Energy and/or Transport). The main motivation of the current exercise was to determine relationships between funding and the various activities of the Joint Undertaking, for example to visualise trends in the funding for particular technologies or applications. As a pre-cursor to a wider historical analysis of the impact of the FCH 2 JU, a structured classification of projects according to keywords has been performed, leading to the creation of a hierarchical database. All projects up to and including the 2018 call have been included in this exercise, excluding two additional projects under preparation by FCH JU, which were not signed in time for inclusion in this report. To achieve these goals, keywords were determined for all projects and then distributed within a hierarchical database created in excel. Keywords were analysed based on Project Topic (encompassing the technology type and application) and Project Class (encompassing the stage and scale of the project undertaken). Finally, a series of plots were created, demonstrating how the database could be used to investigate the trends in funding at different levels of the database hierarchy.JRC.C.1-Energy Storag