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Hydrogen Europe Research provides feedback to the consultation on European Research and Innovation Framework programmes, emphasizing the benefits of a hydrogen Joint Undertaking within Horizon Europe. The organization calls for strengthening partnerships and financial resources, and highlights the importance of collaborative research and innovation. Key points include:

- The need for a hydrogen Joint Undertaking to ensure quick transfer from knowledge to application
- Strengthening partnerships and financial resources
- The importance of collaborative research and innovation
- Funding opportunities mainly concentrated in the Clean Hydrogen Partnership
- Need for more specific collaboration streams to increase stakeholder engagement
- Shorter application timeframes making it challenging to prepare qualitative proposals
- Overlapping deadlines for calls addressing common priorities
- Welcoming simplification efforts, such as the Lump Sum approach
- Need for clearly understandable and specific calls to limit oversubscription
- Increasing R&I investments crucial for Europe's future
- Need for an earmarked budget for R&I activities
- Administrative procedures and grant management requiring improvement.