NASCHA - North Adriatic Smart Communities Hydrogen Accelerator

NASCHA the project is aimed at accelerating the development and application of renewable hydrogen in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. Through five pilot projects and three Smart Communities of Practice, NASCHA demonstrates hydrogen solutions in the areas of mobility, urban energy systems and sustainable agriculture. The project builds on the North Adriatic Hydrogen Valley initiative and strengthens regional capacities for investment, standardisation and market expansion of hydrogen technologies.

Project code

101228139

Total value of the project

EUR 10 777 580,59

Project implementation period

3.11.2025. – 2.11.2028

Project coordinator

Area di Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica di Trieste (Italy)

Project partners

Rijeka Development Agency PORIN d.o.o., META Group s.r.l. (Italy), ETRA proizvodnja, trgovina storitve d.o.o. (Slovenia), Associazione IBAN – Italian Business Angels Association (Italy), Obcina Ajdovscina (Slovenia), STEMwise d.o.o. (Croatia), META CIRCULARITY, svetovanje in Innovation, d.o.o. (Slovenia), CTS H2 S.R.L. (Italy), Island Development Agency limited liability company for the conservation of the islands of Cres-Lošinj, research, development and other business activities (Croatia), Slovenski inštitut za standardszacijo (Slovenia), Ecubes tehnologije d.o.o.o. (Slovenia), Inkubator d.o.o. economic, organizational and technological storitve, Sežana (Slovenia), Patria composite d.o.o. (Croatia), University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (Croatia), Energetika Celje javne podjetje d.o.o. (Slovenia), Institut Jozef Stefan (Slovenia), Mestna občina Celje (Slovenia), INCOM Proizvodnjano trgovsko podjetje d.o.o. (Slovenia)

RRA Porin in the project

In the NASCHA project, RRA Porin acts as a key Croatian partner in charge of the development and implementation of the Cres pilot project, the inclusion of the local ecosystem, the promotion of innovations and SMEs, and the development of tools to replicate hydrogen solutions in other European regions.

The project was approved by the I3 Programme.