Appendix C: Workshop

An online workshop has hosted on 18 April, 13:00–15:30, to collect input from hydrogen stakeholders involved in research, industry and policymaking in the Nordic region. The event was marketed through the Nordic Energy Research (NER) LinkedIn page and further spread through the personal communication channels of NER staff and project participants.

The workshop was carried out using the interactive presentation software Mentimeter. Forty-one participants registered responses for the first question, which related to their affiliation (see result presented below).

Figure 1. Actor affiliation of the participants at the NER workshop.

The majority of the participants were affiliated with public authorities or universities/research institutes.

Figure 2. Result showing the countries in which the workshop participants were based.

The next question was about the respondents’ country of residence. The responses indicate a well-balanced distribution of respondents across the Nordic countries.

The workshop agenda was divided into the following three parts:

A general presentation of the project, followed by a presentation of the suggested definition of Nordic hydrogen valleys and hotspots. Based on this presentation, a discussion was held where the participants contributed with feedback on the suggested definitions.
A description of the development of the online mapping tool, including which existing mapping tools were used as inspiration, suggested design principles for the planned tool and structure of the information. After this presentation, all participants provided feedback on what kind of information should be on the start page and other potentially relevant data to display.
An introduction to the benefits of Nordic hydrogen valleys, which was followed by a discussion where participants suggested key drivers, barriers and policy measures for the development of Nordic hydrogen valleys. In addition to offering open suggestions on these topics, participants also ranked pre-formulated suggestions within these categories, which were prepared in advance by the project team.

All input gathered during the workshop was incorporated into subsequent work on the tool and included in the project report.