The 9th C4U General Assembly in Nijmegen (Netherlands)

In September 2024, the C4U Consortium gathered in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) for the project’s 9th General Assembly (GA).

General Assemblies provide a necessary space for the C4U Consortium to gather in person, assess the project’s progress, and discuss future points of action. This 9th iteration came at a crucial time: with C4U set to conclude its activities in March 2025, the team has made significant progress towards the last goals of this research project. Among the most recent achievements is the publication of the C4U Policy Brief series, which delves into three interconnected challenges of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) deployment in the EU: (a) optimising CCUS technologies at the cluster level, (b) incentivising CCUS in a societally acceptable way in industrial clusters, and (c) developing business models for industrial CCUS infrastructure.

Image: The ERM team presenting their work on Business Models for CCUS. You can find more about their work here

Hosted by C4U partner Radboud University, this GA also brought many opportunities for the C4U Consortium to explore historical Nijmegen – the oldest city in the Netherlands, having celebrated more than 2,000 years of existence. We also had the pleasure of meeting with the team from Carbyon, a start-up company advancing research to turn Direct Air Capture (DAC) into an affordable and scalable technology for climate change mitigation. We are grateful for their warm welcome and the insightful tour of their facilities.