Samenvatting

The University of Twente, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, ROC of Twente (vocational education), centre of expertise TechYourFuture and H2Hub Twente, in which various regional hydrogen interested corporations, like Demcon, VDL, HyMatters, KIWA, Cogas, Powerspex and Waterschap Vechtstromen, are involved, work together to shape a Learning Community (LC) for the development of hydrogen technology. In the LC, decentralized hydrogen production, storage, application and education plays a central role and the main question is: how can we design and perpetuate a successful challenge-based LC in which students, company employees (specialists) and researchers can learn, innovate, build-up knowledge and benefit together? HRD-specialists and engineers / researchers explored the important factors for a LC resulting into a blueprint with agreements and commitment. The LC blueprint served as guideline for the RAAK MKB project HYGENESYS (2022 – 2024).

Impact interviews reveal that the LC is very beneficial for companies. It increases overall knowledge on hydrogen systems, promotes cooperation and connection with other
companies and aids to their market proposition as well. Students get the opportunity to work in close contact with multiple company professionals and build-up a network of their own. Output of the LC can serve as a educational material for businesses and companies and is further improved with hands-on experimental possibilities using a
small-scale test-setup, which is made available in open source hardware (Instructables).

The LC will continue to serve as guideline for projects like HyPRO (GroenvermogenNL) or Professional Doctorate (SIA) and educational activities are expanded with courses for LifeLongLearning.