On June 11th, 2025, the TRIERES Workshop titled “Hydrogen Innovation for Regional Growth: Enhancing Mobility and Local Value Chains – The Peloponnese Case” took place in Agioi Theodoroi, Corinth, under the auspices of the Region of Peloponnese and the Municipality of Loutraki-Perachora-Agioi Theodoroi.
The workshop brought together over 90 participants in person and more than 60 online attendees from 28 countries, representing institutions, industry, academia, and public bodies, all sharing a common goal: exploring the potentail of small-scale hydrogen valley solutions and the role of green hydrogen in local and regional contexts with a reference to Peloponnese Region and the mobility sector.
Distinguished speakers honored the event with their presence including:
- Christos Dimas, Minister of Infrastructure & Transport
- Nikolaos Tagaras, Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy
- Dimitris Ptochos, Governor of the Region of Peloponnese
- Georgios Gkionis, Mayor of Loutraki-Perachora-Agioi Theodoroi
- Athina Foka, Head of Special EU Funds Service, Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Insular Policy
- Yorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO, Hydrogen Europe
- Dionisis Tsimis, Project Officer TRIERES, Clean Hydrogen Partnership
- Stefano Campagnolo, Project Officer, CINEA
- Stefanos Agiasoglou, CEO, Road Transport S.A. (OSY)
- Konstantinos Chatzifotis, TRIERES Project Coordinator, European Affairs Manager, Motor Oil Group
The agenda featured four focused panel discussions:
1) Building Hydrogen Economies at Local and Regional Level, moderated by Nikolaos Ntavos, Co-Founder and Manager, Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia (CLuBE)
- Rachel Charalampidou, Mayor’s Special Advisor, Municipality of Loutraki – Perachora – Agioi Theodoroi
- Patrick Cnubben, CEO, Hydrogen Architects, representative HEAVENN valley, Netherlands
- Nikolaus Fleischhacker, CEO, FEN Research, representative WIVA P&G HyWest Valley and Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck, Austria
- Alberto Herranz, Technical Consulting and Training, Aragon Hydrogen Foundation, representative GetHyGA Valley (Spain) & SH2AMROCK Valley (Ireland)
- Markos Leggas, Delegated Advisor for European Programmes and Regional Councillor, Region of Peloponnese
- Manuel Löw, Expert, Hydrogen and synthetic energy carriers, German Energy Agency
- Marios Papageorgiou, Officer, Energy & Environment Department, Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation, OEB
2) Hydrogen Mobility, moderated by Dimitris Lyridis, Professor, National Technical University of Athens
- Alexandros Archontidis, Commercial Director, Olympia Odos
- Socrates Chanos, Technical Support General Director, OSY
- Konstantinos Dasios, Commercial Manager, Coral Gas
- Ilias Karaiskos, AFS Group Product Manager, Toyota Hellas
- Petros Zorapas, Commercial Manager, AVIN ΟΙL
3) Driving Impact through Policy and Regulation, moderated by Xanthi Bamboula, Business Development and Innovation Manager, EIT Manufacturing Southeast
- Jason Angelopoulos, Senior Business Partner, Growthfund
- Dimitra Douka, Junior Infrastracture Officer, Hydrogen Europe
- Dimitris Kardomateas, President and General Director, CRES
- Ulrich Laumanns, Project Manager, Technical support for the development of green hydrogen in Greece (H2Greece), GIZ
- Athanasios Stubos, National Representative of Greece, Clean Hydrogen Partnership SRG, European Commission
4) Hydrogen Technologies and Infrastructures, moderated by Dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, Researcher, FORTH – Institute of Geoenergy
- Christodoulos Karavasilis, Head of Technical Department, LPC
- George Mitkidis, Head of Alternative & Renewable Fuels, Strategy Division, Motor Oil Hellas
- Astrinos Papadakis, Innovation Hub Manager / Technical Division, Hydrus Engineering
- Dimitris Triantafyllopoulos, Managing Director, Hellenic Hydrogen
- Melissa Verykios, President and Business Development,Helbio/METACON
The workshop concluded with:
- A field visit to the first AVIN hydrogen refueling station in Agioi Theodoroi
- A networking gala at the iconic Corinth Canal
Many thanks to all the speakers, participants, and supporting organizations who contributed to this impactful day for regional hydrogen development in the Peloponnese and beyond.
