The MARVEL final report, covering the 12 years of the project, is available on the website. As mentioned by Nicola Marzari in the executive summary, the overall summary is that MARVEL had and still has exactly the right mission, drive, and ambition. It certainly showed, like many efforts worldwide, that materials can be discovered faster when theory, algorithms, high-performance computing, data, machine learning and experiments are tightly connected. Importantly, it kept pushing an agenda of open-source codes, open-access data, and of much needed verification efforts — often remarkably missing in a field that produces tens of thousands of papers per year. It produced new scientific knowledge, built digital tools used far beyond the consortium, trained a new generation of researchers, widened participation, and created lasting structures that strengthen Switzerland's position in computational materials science.
