
The aim of this project is to establish and develop lasting cooperation among HEI and private sector, to influence the way universities work and enable them to learn from the entrepreneurial nature of companies, develop and use case studies based on the experience of companies - enhance their teaching and learning methods and gain an understanding of the needs of enterprises and improve the curricula accordingly. The idea is for them to move towards becoming ‘Entrepreneurial Universities’.The main deliverables of JEUL project are:A. Establishing Links between HEI and Industry;B. Developing and utlilising case studies, embedding such teaching methodology in partner countries universities;C. Identify skills and knowledge shortages and embed the required skills in the curriculaD. Develop 2 undergraduate modules on the Enterprise Pathway and a suitable VLE deliver modeThe target groups of the project are universities, their staff, their present and future students, and enterprises. The Government and society at large will also benefit.JEUL will produce durable and sustained impact: After the end of the project, cooperation between EU and partner countries universities will continue albeit in a different form (other joint projects, bilateral agreements, possible joint degrees, etc.) as a result of the links developed during the life of this project.
The PW-TELEMAN project aims at developing an open source and easy accessible package of real-time TDDFT libraries and codes, based on programs developed over the past 15 years in a Toulouse-Erlangen collaboration which spread to Le Mans and China via former students. At the time being no available code truly accounts for a complete non-adiabatic electron-ions coupling allowing a full follow-up of a whole dynamical scenario from early excitation (fs or sub-fs) to long time response (ps) of a given physical system. To the best of our knowledge, the Toulouse-Erlangen package is the single one allowing such an investigation in a fully time-resolved manner. Still this package requires a strong effort of standardization and documentation and in order to make it more efficient and usable by external groups. More optimization is highly desirable to exploit the latest computer technology such as GPGPU and so to access the much more demanding tasks in organic molecules. It is the goal of the project to succeed in these two complementing directions. The variety of potential applications is obvious. We mention in particular the very practical aspects concerning irradiation of biological molecules and radiation damage in materials. The plan is to develop our project in two complementing directions: first, implementation and tests of formal developments such as approximations to TDSIC/OEP methods, coupled with an exploration of various dynamical scenarios of increasing complexity (requiring ongoing optimization), starting with free molecules and clusters, turning to systems such as a chromophore cluster embedded in a matrix, ending with a coupled quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics hierarchical modeling of a biophysical problem made possible due to the expected increase in numerical performance and on the other hand standardization, documentation, and publication of a toolbox of routines which will be easily usable by other groups, a some test users being included in the proposal .