1) The document outlines speaking points for the introduction of a joint workshop on hydrogen and fuel cells. 2) The workshop brings together programs, agencies, regions, towns, and industry to coordinate efforts to develop hydrogen and fuel cells in Europe through an "innovation pipeline". 3) The objectives are to strongly increase European cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cells to give the sector a push towards the market, and to test the effectiveness of using innovation workshops to establish specific innovation pipelines for strategic technologies.