5. Teaching hydrogen technologies at Western universities

Teaching materials science in France and abroad reveals a certain homogeneity in the Bachelor's and Master's curricula of Western universities, or universities with a Western vision (including Australia and New Zealand, and even South Africa to some extent), with marginal differences depending on regional strengths and sensitivities. We can also point to very significant differences with countries from other cultures, such as China, where teaching is characterized by cutting-edge specialties, but in silos: a student who doesn't choose this specialty will most likely have no notion of materials science or solid state physics at the end of the curriculum, unlike students at our schools and most European and Western universities. Here, basic materials science is often taught as a compulsory course at the 1 ^er or 2nd cycle level (bachelor's, licentiate,...