Lviv Polytechnic National University has won an EU OSCARS grant for HYDRA – a FAIR open infrastructure for modelling hydrogen-storage materials and rare-earth permanent magnets. The project will create a standardized, openly accessible database to accelerate the discovery and optimization of materials crucial for wind turbines, electric vehicles, and metal-hydride batteries.
Lviv Polytechnic’s HYDRA team will integrate experimental results, thermoanalytical data and microstructural characteristics with machine-learning tools and open-science practices. The outcomes will be shared through the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to support researchers and innovators across Europe and beyond.
«HYDRA bridges classic experimental materials science with data-driven methods,» says Andrii Trostianchyn, D.Sc., Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Principal Investigator. «By making high-quality, FAIR data available to the community, we reduce research duplication, cut development costs, and speed up sustainable innovation.»
«Open, interoperable data are a foundation for Europe’s green transition,» adds Tetiana Tepla, Ph.D., Project Data Steward. «HYDRA will help align our work with EOSC and strengthen collaboration with industry and research infrastructures.»
HYDRA team
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Andrii Trostianchyn, D.Sc. (PI); Volodymyr Kulyk, D.Sc.; Pavlo Lyutyy, Ph.D.; Tetiana Tepla, Ph.D. – Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lviv Polytechnic National University.
About HYDRA
- Full title: FAIR Open Infrastructure for Modelling Hydrogen Storage & Rare-Earth Magnetic Materials (HYDRA)
- Funding programme: EU OSCARS
- Host unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lviv Polytechnic National University
- Focus: Intermetallic hydrides (e.g., AB₅/CaCu₅), hydrogen storage, rare-earth permanent magnets (Sm-Co, R₂Fe₁₄B), materials informatics and ML
- Open science: FAIR data, EOSC integration, reusable datasets and workflows
Contact:
HYDRA Project, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Lviv Polytechnic National University
E-mail: andrii.m.trostianchyn@lpnu.ua