MARVEL encourages students (PhD and postdocs) associated to the NCCR to participate in various schools and workshops in the field of computational design and discovery of novel materials, or more generally in topics of current interest in theoretical condensed matter physics and materials science. 

It sponsors workshops, conferences, and tutorials that focus on topics associated to MARVEL by providing a financial contribution to young MARVEL collaborators. In this way, through the contact with world-experts attending such conferences, MARVEL encourages high-level education and training of its members. 

As major activity of the closing of MARVEL, the two-week college on “Materials Simulations in the Age of AI” in June 2026 aimed to bring together graduate students and early-career researchers from all over the world to learn and explore the state-of-the-art in computational materials science in the era of AI, and to forge the next generation of researchers in the field. It was organized in Trieste by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and MARVEL.