A recent teaching and research paper titled "Hydrogène, matériaux et éducation: Différences à l'international dans un monde sous tension" ("Hydrogen, Materials, and Education: International Differences in a Tense World"), co-authored by Professor Alain Thorel, European coordinator at ICARE, former professor at École des Mines de Paris and Université PSL, and Associate Professor Li Song, has been accepted by the platform Techniques de l'Ingénieur.

Founded in 1946 by Maurice Postel, an engineer from École Centrale Paris, Techniques de l'Ingénieur has grown to become the largest French-language scientific platform and a leader in French-language scientific literature. It is a critical resource for engineers across French-speaking regions, publishing approximately 800 articles annually and attracting 1.5 million monthly visits to its official website.

The paper highlights the importance of developing adaptable talent specialized in hydrogen energy to support the advancement of hydrogen technology and its industrial ecosystem. Taking into account the assessment of the needed materials resources, the criticality of raw materials and ores, that are crucial for the energy transition, and the corresponding needs of qualified actors, it analyses and compares the way hydrogen is taught in the best Western and Chinese universities, and presents exemplary cooperation initiatives that, beyond geopolitical differences, make it possible to envisage synergies that take advantage of the best of different cultures to meet the environmental challenge.