Australia is pursuing ambitious goals to promote green hydrogen, supported by excellent natural resources (solar and wind) and government funding programs worth billions. The workshop will focus on approaches to market development and cooperation between European and Australian players with a special focus on interested companies and research institutions from Saxony. One aim of the workshop is to assemble a group of interested Saxon stakeholders for a trip to Australia (in 2026) and to identify their expectations and needs.
The HZwo Workshop “Hydrogen Perspectives in Australia” is planned as a face-to-face event.
Agenda
07:30 – Arrival and registration
08:00 – Block 1
Opening of the event and Introduction
Kerstin Leisering, Project Manager Foreign Trade, Saxony Trade & Invest
Dr.-Ing. Gert Schlegel, Head of Network and Member Management, HZwo e. V.
Australia – a strategic partner with growth potential
Franziska Wegerich
Corporate Services Senior Consultant
German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Market study: Market potential in Australia for hydrogen solutions from Saxony
Prof. Eric May, Managing Director of the Future Energy Exports (FEnEx) CRC & Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia
Tom George, CEO, move technology GmbH
Discussion
09:30 – Coffee break
10:30 – Block 2: Successful Australian-German cooperation from a Saxon perspective
Cooperation with Carbon Nexus to strengthen the research into carbon fibres and their processing
Dr.-Ing. Mario Naumann, Head of Research Division Carbon Fiber and Processing Technologies (Institute of Lightweight Structures, Chemnitz University of Technology) and Scientific Head of the Carbon LabFactory Saxony
HZwo Open Source Stack – Insights into successful Australian-German research cooperation
Patrick Schaarschmidt, Department of Advanced Powertrains, Chemnitz University of Technology
Hycel Technology Hub at Deakin’s Warrnambool Campus – Pathways for Australian-German cooperation in the Hydrogen Industry
Prof. Michael Pereira, School of Engineering at Deakin University, Australia and Deputy Director Hycel
Joint lab of Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Fraunhofer IKTS – initiating technology transfer and cooperation between Saxony and Australia
Dr. Erik Reichelt, Group Leader Systems Process Engineering, Fraunhofer IKTS
HyGATE Project: CFE Pilot – Pioneering Capillary-FED Electrolysis in German-Australian Collaboration
Dr.-Ing. Felix Heubner, Head of Department Hydrogen Technologies, Fraunhofer IFAM (Dresden subinstitute)
Short summary and switchover to the Networking Lunch
13:00 – End of the event
