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About HySchool Days

The primary objective of HySchool is to contribute to the global energy transition by enhancing the quality of Norwegian doctoral training on the use of hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuel as energy carriers in society. PhD students from all universities and university colleges in Norway can be admitted to HySchool, provided research on hydrogen and/or hydrogen-based fuels is an important part of the doctoral project.

In this perspective, HySchool Days will be an annual meeting place for PhD candidates, researchers and representatives from the labour market, from different disciplines and organisations. The partners in HySchool will take turns organising HySchool at various locations in Norway.

HySchool Days 2025

Ìý(USN) hosted HySchool Days 2025 at Kulturhuset ÆlvespeiletÌýin Porsgrunn on 1-2 April 2025. For internal participants, there were additional programmes on Monday 31 March and Thursday 3 April.

The programme featured presentations from:

• TheÌýfive Topical Areas in HySchool
• PhD students admitted to the research schoolÌý
• The academic partners in HySchoolÌý
• Some of our collaboration partnersÌý
• Leading researchers from national and international universities
• The labour market: industry, authorities, research institutes, cluster organisations, etc.

As such, HySchool Days 2025 represented a unique opportunity for networking, as well as an overview of contemporary research activities and industrial initiatives on hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels.

Programme

The programme for HySchool Days 2025 can be downloaded here.
You can find the slideshow featuring all of the PhD posters here.

Presentations from HySchool Days 2025, shared with permission from the speakers:

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Topical Area #1 – Society and environment
The Norwegian hydrogen landscape – Lin April Løstegård (Norwegian Hydrogen Forum).
Developing a hydrogen market – Ernes Cereku (Green H)
Enabling sustainable hydrogen economy – Teymur Gogiyev (NTNU)

Topical Area #2 – Production
– Sivert Eliassen (Å Energi AS)
– Øystein Ulleberg (IFE)
State estimation for gas purity monitoring and control in alkaline water electrolysis – Lucas Cammann (NTNU)
– Massimo Santarelli (Politecnico di Torino)

Topical Area #3 -ÌýStorage and distribution
– Ingvald Torblå (Hardanger Hydrogen Hub) & Lars Kristian Skårberg (Technip FMC)
– Vilde Gahr Sturtzel Lunde (IFE).

Topical Area #4 - Applications
– Peter Derks (Equinor)
Spatially solved levelized cost of hydrogen (LCOH) in offshore eligible areas for green electricity production – Alberto Ferrarese (SINTEF & Politecnico di Torino)
Patented fuel cell powered turbine-less jet engine for aircraft propulsion – Mohamad Mustafa (UiT)
An ab initio microkinetic model fitting experiments for the CO2 hydrogenation to methanol with Ru-MACHO: Insight for catalyst design – Mohamed Eid Ahmed Safy (UiO)

Topical Area #5 - Safety
Major hazards research: A history of enabling the energy sector – Dan Allason (DNV Spadeadam)
– Trine Helene Endresen (Equinor)
– Petar Bosnic (USN)
Influence of hydrogen on overload-affected fatigue crack growth in pipeline steels – Leonardo Giannini (NTNU)Ìý

Education & Research Centres
– Federico Ustolin (NTNU)Ìý
From research to reality: Enhancing your PhD journey in a hydrogen centre – Ellen Ingeborg Hætta (FME HyValue / NORCE)Ìý
Moving forward with HYDROGENi (TBC) – Hilde Johnsen Venvik (FME HYDROGENi / NTNU)Ìý
– Trygve Skjold (ÐÒÔË·Éͧ¼Æ»®)Ìý

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Contact

If you have any questions, please contact:Ìýhyschool@uib.no.

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