April 16, 2026
The HERMES consortium gathered at CERFACS, in Toulouse, France, for its M42 meeting, the final project meeting of the HERMES initiative, to review the achievements delivered over the course of the project and to discuss the last steps toward completion.
During the meeting, partners presented the final outcomes from the main work packages, including project management, system design, turbomachinery development, and technology scale-up activities. The consortium highlighted major technical progress such as the completion of turbomachinery design and optimization, supercritical combustor design, system prototype integration work, assessment of the system’s technoeconomic indicators, contribution of the project to the relevant EU R&I policy framework, and the preparation of the technology roadmap for the next development phase. In the scale-up work, the partners also identified the compressor and combustor as the most critical components for further development, while confirming that the HERMES project has produced a clear high-level roadmap for future implementation.
The meeting also served to align the consortium on future actions, project closure tasks, and dissemination activities. With the successful completion of the planned technical and organizational work, the M42 meeting stands as the final project meeting of HERMES.
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