Organisation and Topical Areas
HySchool is a joint initiative from seven Norwegian universities in cooperation with national and international partners and participants from academia, research institutes and industry.
Contact
Main contact points, project owner:
Scientific director (UiB) - Trygve Skjold
Administrative coordinator (UiB) - Merry H. Navjord
Main contact persons, other academic partners:
Main contact persons, partners from the labour market:
Hege Rognø (Equinor)
Bjørn Christian Hauback (Institute for Energy Technology)
General contact
hyschool@uib.no
Topical Areas
HySchool comprises five topical areas (TA1-TA5) that cover the value chains for hydrogen and hydrogen-based energy carriers, as well as overarching and cross-cutting topics. Each topical area includes relevant research activities related to regulations, codes and standards (RCS).
Since the doctoral projects of the admitted candidates will define the scope of the activities in the research school, HySchool entails a flexible concept where the development of the activities over time will reflect the state-of-the-art in the respective disciplines.
TA1 Society and environment
This topical area covers doctoral projects that address societal or environmental aspects of the use of hydrogen or hydrogen-based fuels as energy carriers, including governance, business models, circular economy and societal safety.
TA2 Production
This topical area covers doctoral projects that explore solutions for producing hydrogen or hydrogen-based energy carriers from various energy sources, including electrolysis, catalysis, etc.
TA3 Storage and distribution
This topical area comprises doctoral projects on storage and distribution of hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels, including technologies for up-scaling, development and testing of hydrogen storage materials and tanks, cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen, etc.
TA4: Applications
This topical area covers doctoral projects on the utilisation of hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels for a wide range of applications, including road, rail, maritime and aviation.
TA5: Safety
This topical area comprises projects on hydrogen safety, including safety engineering, risk analysis, risk assessment, risk management, ignition and combustion phenomena, explosion protection, as well as human and organisational factors.