WBZU, the fuel cell education and training center Ulm (Weiterbildungszentrum Brennstoffzelle Ulm) is set up as a not for profit society registered in Ulm. The society has been founded at July 11 th 2002, its members are from trade, industry, and academia.

Providing high level education and training in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen technology addressing the needs all the different target groups from trade, industry, academia, and schools is the societies key task. A Besides, provision of unbiased information for decision makers in politics and industry as well as general information of the public on these technologies and their application potential are addressed as well. The statutes and further details can be found under the “service” area.

The society is headed by a board of directors consisting of 6 persons. In addition, a supervisory board consisting of 24 representatives of the members has been established.

The founding members are representing trade, industry, and academia. The society is open for new institutional members and private persons. A membership application form can be found in the “Download” area.

For an initial period of 5 years, WBZU is financially supported by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the federal ministry of economy and labour. This initial support will allow the construction of a building devoted to education and training and the initial provision of fuel cell hardware. Experimental systems will be provided by the German center for aerospace technology (DLR), the Fraunhofer institute for solar energy systems (FhG-ISE) technologies and the solar and hydrogen energy research center (ZSW).

The technical content of the ducation and training programs will be jointly developed with Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and representatives of trade and industry.

WBZU is located close to the university campus at the entrance of Science Park I in direct neighbourhood to the ZSW research building. A map how to find WBZU can be found following this link.