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The European Commission has made a new move to encourage the scale up and deployment of renewable hydrogen, opening the first auction under the European Hydrogen Bank, with €800 million  available now through the Innovation Fund to subsidise production, and a further €2.2 billion to come early next year. Producers will bid for a fixed premium per kilogram of hydrogen produced, to help them cover the additional costs of producing clean hydrogen.

The European Commission’s directorate for research and innovation has set up a new unit to develop EU policy on artificial intelligence in science and industry.

The European Commission is to add a new unit with a brief to set down guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in science, according to a leak on the upcoming restructuring of the research and innovation directorate general, DG RTD.