The European Hydrogen Academy

Project Information

HyAcademy.EU

Grant agreement ID: 101137988

DOI

10.3030/101137988

EC signature date 8 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 30 June 2028

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 2 987 233,75

EU contribution

€ 2 987 233,75

Coordinated by

VYSOKA SKOLA CHEMICKO-TECHNOLOGICKA V PRAZE
Czechia

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HyAcademy.EU (The European Hydrogen Academy)

Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2025-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

HyAcademy.EU will capitalise on the investments already made by the European Commission and Member States in education and training activities. The consortium brings together representatives from multiple projects (Table 1), enabling previous outputs to be consolidated and exploited, maximising the Academy impact and reach.
In order to realise its objectives, the European Hydrogen Academy will have achieved by midterm to
- build and sustain a network of over 100 universities (The Network of 100) offering recognised qualifications,specialisations, and degrees in hydrogen technologies,
- build and sustain a network of over 500 schools integrating hydrogen topics into their science teaching, including technical schools and colleges with more specific technical training,
- create a network of 5 hands-on, physical training laboratories,
- offer a portal to showcase and link the educational programmes available in the network and beyond, in order to supply prospective trainees with accurate and detailed information on training and career opportunities, with a minimum of 100.000 accesses to documents specialising in hydrogen topics,
- provide free training materials across European languages to lecturers and teachers in order to enable educational staff to deliver the vast body of educational measures necessary,
- develop and integrate novel (online) teaching methodologies into university, college and school curricula, and train educational staff to successfully employ these, and
- create and implement an organisational structure and a successful business case allowing continuation of the project activities post-funding in establishing a European Hydrogen Academy spanning all levels and types of education and training.
HyAcademy.EU will considerably contribute to the EU goals of offering access to high-quality education, supporting the creation of a highly-skilled workforce and more and better jobs in the European hydrogen industry. Through the school activities it will foster public awareness and acceptance of hydrogen technologies.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

We have performed the following work and achieved the respective results within this reporting period:
(1) we have established a data base with university educational activities ranging from programmes (Msc, BSc), over specialisations (e.g. within general MSc programmes) to academic modules, and continuous professional education (CPD) with currently 120 entries; the database considerable expands the existing Hydrogen Observatory in detail and scope, offering the data that students will be looking for when preparing and chosing their studeis; this activity is also the kernel from which we are developing the university Network 100+ of universities engaged in academic hydrogen education.
(2) we have established a database of close to 150 schools active or intersted in integrating hydrogen topics into their curriculum; this is an activity that is mainly directed at teachers and in this form hs never existed before; it is also the kernel from which we are developing the school Network 500+ of school engaged in hydrogen education.
(3) together with the Interreg NWE project Green SKHy we have established a network of currently 6 training laboratories that are willing to share forces in offering external parties access to teacing laboratory facilities.
(4) we are currently building a network of industry supporters who will interact with the HyAcademy.eu platform and contribute to financing activities post-funding.
(5) we have established the basic elements, including Serious Games, for the Net-Zero Hydrogen Academy, hosted on the EIT-KIC InnoEnergy Skills Institute platform; this is a new activity aiming at educating up to 100,000 users within the coming year, giving them at least a basic understanding of hydrogen technologies.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

As the project is a CSA we do not necessarily aim at going 'beyond the State of the Art'.
Nevertheless, we have achieved a number of things that are pushing the frontier of how skills in the hdyrogen sector can be taught and delivered in Europe.
(1) we have established a data base with university educational activities ranging from programmes (Msc, BSc), over specialisations (e.g. within general MSc programmes) to academic modules, and continuous professional education (CPD) with currently 120 entries; the database considerable expands the existing Hydrogen Observatory in detail and scope, offering the data that students will be looking for when preparing and chosing their studeis; this activity is also the kernel from which we are developing the university Network 100+ of universities engaged in academic hydrogen education.
(2) we have established a database of close to 150 schools active or intersted in integrating hydrogen topics into their curriculum; this is an activity that is mainly directed at teachers and in this form hs never existed before; it is also the kernel from which we are developing the school Network 500+ of school engaged in hydrogen education.
(3) together with the Interreg NWE project Green SKHy we have established a network of currently 6 training laboratories that are willing to share forces in offering external parties access to teacing laboratory facilities.
(4) we are currently building a network of industry supporters who will interact with the HyAcademy.eu platform and contribute to financing activities post-funding.
(5) we have established the basic elements, including Serious Games, for the Net-Zero Hydrogen Academy, hosted on the EIT-KIC InnoEnergy Skills Institute platform; this is a new activity aiming at educating up to 100,000 users within the coming year, giving them at least a basic understanding of hydrogen technologies.

Consortium photograph General Assembly Dec 2025

Consortium photograph Kick-Off Meeting Jan 2025

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