The perception of environmental problems especially global warming is more than ever an issue, especially in this day and age when reaching agreements on today's climate targets is a challenge and a topic of concern among European citizens of all ages. Associated effects of global warming, like extreme weather events, are driven primarily by the emission of exhaust gases (especially CO2, nitrogen oxides and methane) and water vapour creating contrails. Hence, reducing emissions to preserve the environment, while keeping the mobility is a central society need now and in the future. To reduce the emissions in short and medium term, changes in flight trajectory design and ATC operations are an appropriate means. Thereby, the flight trajectories are influenced on one hand by environmental and aircraft parameters, and on the other by ATC driven parameters, like route length or usable altitudes. During flight execution, re-planning on board of an aircraft using the flight management system enables to consider dynamic effects on the tactical level, like changes in the weather situation. For the efficiency of such a greener trajectory, it is necessary that the trajectory can be flown in the planned way, even under the actual traffic situation controlled by ATC, which today is often not the case. The overall objective of the cooperation of Chinese and European partners in GreAT is to reduce the fuel consumption and gas emissions during “gate-to-gate” flight phases through developing and assessing environment-friendly air traffic operational concept, adaptive airspace and green trajectory optimization technologies, and supporting avionic systems. Evaluation campaigns between the European partners and in combination with the Chinese partners through cross evaluations are planned to validate the proposed concept and show a potential significant reduction of the aviation’s impact on climate change.

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.