The European H2 Valley of the Year Award honours exceptional achievements in the development and implementation of Hydrogen Valleys. Criteria for the evaluation are breakthroughs in project implementation, outstanding efforts in covering the value chain, hydrogen volume produced/used in the valley, the stakeholders’ landscape and involvement, as well as the innovation level.
BalticSeaH2 builds the first significant, cross-border hydrogen valley in Europe. Combining local areas into a broader valley supports creating a genuinely integrated, interregional hydrogen economy, which has not been done previously on this scale. The idea for the valley as well as the consortium and proposal were prepared by CLIC Innovation. CLIC is also the project coordinator and leads the work package for communication, dissemination and exploitation.
“This award is a huge honour for CLIC, and highlights that we are not only innovative and ambitious with the idea, but also successful in developing and coordinating the valley”, says Jatta Jussila, CEO of CLIC Innovation.
The project started in 2023 and runs for five years. The consortium includes 40 partners from nine Baltic Sea region countries: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Gasgrid Vetyverkot is a facilitator for the collaboration in the project.
The funder, Clean Hydrogen Partnership, presented awards to its leading projects at a ceremony on 24 November 2025. The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is a public-private partnership supporting research and innovation activities in the hydrogen sector across Europe. Through this partnership, BalticSeaH2 is co-funded by the European Union.