On 13 January 2025, the Advanced Materials Open Science Centre at the Precarpathian National University (PNU-OpenLab) was founded. The main goal of the Centre is to consolidate the research activities of Ukrainian scientists from universities in Western Ukraine and research institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the field of obtaining, characterizing, and implementing advanced materials and nanomaterials according to the principles of Open Science.
The foundation of the Centre is part of the implementation of the project “Advanced Materials Open Science Centre at the Precarpathian National University” (Principal Investigator is Volodymyr Kotsiubynskyi), funded under HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-01 (2024-2026). The project outcomes will include the creation of a university repository for multidisciplinary open data, the organization of open access to the research infrastructure of the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, certification of the PNU-NanoLab, expanded cooperation with industrial enterprises, installation of an autonomous energy supply system at the university, and for the creation of a regional node of the CERIC-ERIC system. The main idea behind PNU-OpenLab is to facilitate the integration of Ukrainian scientists into the European research space.
