SIEMENS SAS

Their core work

Siemens SAS is the French subsidiary of Siemens AG, one of the world's largest industrial technology corporations, with core businesses spanning energy technology, industrial automation, and digital infrastructure. In the H2020 programme they participated exclusively as a third-party contributor — providing access to real industrial assets, engineering expertise, and technology demonstration environments that research institutions and SMEs cannot replicate independently. Their most substantive EU research engagement is in hydrogen power generation: adapting gas turbines for hydrogen combustion and integrating flexible hydrogen storage into renewable energy grids. An earlier, less typical engagement in cardiovascular medical device simulation suggests broader engineering modeling capabilities within the Siemens group.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

From 2015 to 2018, Siemens SAS's only recorded H2020 contribution was to VPH-CaSE, a Research Excellence project on virtual physiological human modelling for medical devices — a domain far from their industrial core, most likely reflecting Siemens's group-wide engineering simulation competencies applied to biomedical engineering. By 2020, their focus shifted decisively and coherently toward hydrogen energy: HYFLEXPOWER addresses the full Power-to-X-to-Power chain, from electrolysis and hydrogen storage through to combustion in gas turbines and carbon-free thermal power generation. The trajectory maps directly onto Siemens's corporate energy transition strategy and suggests any future EU participation will concentrate on industrial decarbonisation and clean hydrogen.

Siemens SAS is tracking toward hydrogen-ready industrial energy infrastructure, making them a credible testbed partner for any consortium that needs to validate clean power technology at real turbine scale.

How they like to work

Siemens SAS has participated in both projects exclusively as a third-party contributor — a role that typically means supplying industrial facilities, technology access, or validation capacity rather than conducting research or managing deliverables. Despite this supporting position, they are connected to 31 distinct consortium partners across 9 countries, which reflects the size and ambition of consortia that actively seek their industrial credibility. Consortium builders should expect Siemens SAS to function as a high-value anchor partner providing real-world testbeds and industrial legitimacy, not as a project coordinator or primary research driver.

Across two projects, Siemens SAS is linked to 31 unique partners spread across 9 European countries — a broad footprint for just two engagements, reflecting participation in large multi-partner consortia rather than small focused collaborations. No single geographic cluster is visible, consistent with Siemens's pan-European industrial presence.

What sets them apart

As the French entity of Siemens AG, Siemens SAS brings something most EU research partners simply cannot offer: access to real, operating industrial infrastructure — gas turbines, energy systems, and automation platforms — at a scale required to move technology from laboratory to market. For hydrogen and power-to-X projects specifically, having Siemens as a third-party testbed operator substantially strengthens a consortium's credibility with reviewers and industrial end-users alike. Their value is not in research leadership but in de-risking demonstration: if Siemens has validated it on their equipment, the technology is taken seriously by industry.

Highlights from their portfolio

• HYFLEXPOWER
  A large Innovation Action (2020–2024) addressing the full hydrogen value chain — from electrolysis to gas turbine combustion — making it directly relevant to industrial decarbonisation and one of the more technically ambitious clean-energy demonstrations in the H2020 Energy pillar.
• VPH-CaSE
  An unexpected engagement in cardiovascular device simulation under the MSCA-ITN framework, revealing engineering modelling capabilities that extend well beyond Siemens's core energy and automation domains.