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CEA Hosts FACET’s First Franco-Australian Symposium on Energy Transition in France


The Franco-Australian Indopacific Centre for Energy Transition, also known as FACET, organised its first  Symposium in France hosted by CEA and Université Grenoble Alpes. This event gathered 155 participants from France and Australia, including a 37-member Australian delegation of researchers, experts, and industry representatives.​

Published on 24 October 2025

​It was opened by representatives from both Ministries of Foreign Affairs, HEMarc Abensour, Ambassador for the Indo-Pacific, and @Mardi Wu, Head of the Economic Department at the Embassy of Australia in France, together with the three founding academic partners of the Centre, with Jean-Louis Falconi presenting for CEA.

FACET announced six new collaborative projects, including four led in partnership with the CEA, to fast-track innovation and real-world impact in the global energy transition:

  • Transforming mine waste into critical metals and green construction materials with CEA-ISEC
  • A simulation tool supporting flexible, renewable electricity grids with CEA-Liten
  • Advances in the safety and affordability of liquid hydrogen storage with CEA-Isas
  • A trilateral France–Japan–Australia collaboration unlocking green hydrogen export potential with CEA-Liten

FACET also launched a French-Australian startup accelerator,  the Climate 4.0 Hub hosted at Swinburne University of Technology. 

The Symposium also featured an Industry Panel on FACET’s key themes — efuels, hydrogen, critical minerals and grids — with insights from RTE, Fortescue, Genvia and Qantas, followed by four research–industry sessions diving deeper into each topic. 

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