International seminar: Hydrogen & Materials 2024

• Hydrogen transition​
• Environmental degradation of materials in hydrogen​
• Hydrogen embrittlement of metals​
• Hydrogen tribology​
• Modelling of hydrogen-material interactions

The 1,5-day seminar is held in Otaniemi, Finland’s innovation cluster. It is located in Espoo, conveniently accessible from both Helsinki city center and Helsinki airport. ​

The seminar will include invited talks from highly esteemed experts such as Prof. Yoshinori Sawae (Kyushu University, Japan) and Prof. Zhiliang Zhang (NTNU, Norway). After the first day of sessions, a seminar dinner will be held in an atmospheric restaurant Sipuli, in the heart of Helsinki.​ It is possible to bring a companion to the dinner for a separate fee of 100 € + VAT 24%.

The second day of sessions will be finishing at lunch, after which there will be a possibility to tour VTT’s laboratories located close to the seminar venue, 40 seats available.​

The fee for the seminar is 480 € + VAT 24%, including the seminar, lunch, refreshments and the dinner. 

Register for the event here as soon as possible at latest 15.5.2024.

Sponsorship package is available at 1500 € + VAT 24%. The package includes one seminar participant and roll-up or poster size A0, company logo on the event website. The sponsorship package can be reserved via registration.

There are many hotels next to Helsinki railway station. Some links below, Booking.com has more options. 

• Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
• Scandic Grand Central Helsinki
• Holiday Inn Helsinki City centre  
• Scandic Simonkenttä next to Kamppi metro station.

Note that, due to renovation and construction work at Central Railway Station, the metro station is closed during the summer. Nearest metro stops to the Railway station are in Kamppi and University of Helsinki stations.  

• Elina Huttunen-Saarivirta, [email protected]
• Vilma Ratia-Hanby, [email protected]