Hydrogen Week 2025 – ZBT opens laboratories on Open House afternoon

During Hydrogen Week 2025, visitors were able to take a look behind the scenes of our research, with exciting insights into laboratories, the test field and current projects.

Hydrogen will play an important role in many areas of our future energy system. The technologies for this are ready.

Here at the ZBT, we are primarily working on innovations to increase efficiency, reduce production costs for low-cost mass production and extend the service life of components and systems.

During the nationwide HYDROGEN WEEK, we gave interested people an insight into our hydrogen research.

Dr. Theresa Schredelseker gave an overview of hydrogen as an energy carrier and the work of the institute.
Michael Schoemaker and Salman Fettah then showed and explained what is being worked on in their laboratories.
And Stefan Bever and Lutz Volmering explained the activities on our hydrogen test field.

We were delighted with the great response and the positive feedback.

We will definitely be back for Hydrogen Week 2026, which will take place from 20.-28. June 2026.

more about the nationwide Hydrogen Week

Further events

ZBT-Wasserstofftage 2026 – The Technology Forum for Industry and Science

18. February, 2026

Duisburg

Hydrogen Energy Symposium 2025 – The ZBT Research School’s Specialist Conference

12. November, 2025

Fraunhofer-InHaus-Zentrum, Duisburg

FC3 Fuel Cell Conference Chemnitz 2026

10. November, 2026

Chemnitz

Workshop “Approval – Certification – Standardisation in the field of fuel cells and hydrogen”

24. February, 2026

Oldenburg

Health & Safety Day 2025

8. October, 2025

Oldenburg

Hydrogen Energy Symposium 2025 – The ZBT Research School’s Specialist Conference

12. November, 2025

Fraunhofer-InHaus-Zentrum, Duisburg

News from the ZBT

13. February, 2026

Successful networking in Duisburg: Regional hydrogen practice meets research, industry and politics

On 5 February 2026, the 4th networking meeting of the Mat4Hy collaboration platform took place in Duisburg together with H2!Raum – directly opposite the ZBT.

20. December, 2025

Double doctoral success at ZBT

There was double cause for celebration at ZBT: Sebastian Hirt and Viktor Mackert successfully completed their doctoral programmes with the successful defence of their dissertations.

24. November, 2025

Novel nickel electrodes for more efficient AEM electrolysis

A team from ZBT, fem and RUB has developed a novel nickel-based catalyst that significantly increases electrolysis efficiency

21. November, 2025

Ceremonial inauguration of the new Greenlyte direct air capture plant at the hydrogen test field

Greenlyte Carbon Technologies and ZBT have commissioned a new direct air capture plant at the hydrogen test field in Duisburg. The plant was constructed in a short period of time and supports the further development of infrastructure for green molecules and synthetic energy sources.

14. November, 2025

ZBT at the SDEWES Conference in Dubrovnik

ZBT was represented at the 20th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems in Dubrovnik, Croatia, with a presentation by Elias Klarhorst.

27. October, 2025

ZBT welcomes international and national delegations: insights into hydrogen research and technologies

In recent weeks, ZBT has welcomed several exciting visitor groups who have been closely examining the latest developments in the field of hydrogen technologies and infrastructure.

27. October, 2025

MCIC2025 – 7. Materials Chain International Conference

Our scientists attended this year’s MCIC2025 at Ruhr University Bochum to learn about and discuss the latest research findings – and to present our work there.

15. September, 2025

Electrolysis conference in Freiburg – ZBT at ICE2025

The 5th International Conference on Electrolysis provided a platform for inspiring presentations, workshops and excursions, as well as exciting discussions on the latest innovations and applications in the world of electrolysis.