Over the course of the project, QCALL has successfully made substantial progress towards its objectives. In particular,
- Our training agenda has been followed and implemented in full. We have organised scientific schools and workshops as proposed. In particular, we successfully organised and delivered
our kick-off meeting in Leeds, in Oct 2017, followed by a complimentary skill (CS) workshop on project management and web page development;
the scientific school on quantum secure communications (SQSC) in May 2018, in Vigo, Spain, with 70+ participants from across the world;
the scientific school on quantum communications networks (SQCN) in Sept 2018, in Padova, Italy, with around 70 participants from across the world;
the second CS workshop on presentation and writing skills in Sept 2018 in Padova, Italy; and
the third CS workshop on commercialisation and entrepreneurship in Sept 2019 in Italy.
- All ESRs have been involved with at least one outreach activity in every year of their studies. This includes writing public science posts on the QCALL web page; making short video clips to explain the key concepts behind their research, and engaging with public via QCALL Open Day as well as local public science event in their host cities.
- All ESRs are enrolled as PhD students in one of the beneficiary universities involved, and almost all of them have already graduated with the rest are expected to finish in a few months.
- All ESRs have had visits/secondments to relevant partner organisations and/or other beneficiary partners.
- In terms of research outcomes, we have achieved, or have gone beyond, all set objectives in the original plan. Over the course of the project, our cohort has published nearly 100 journal and conference papers, all of which have appeared in highly cited journals.