An international consortium of four leading European Universities in cooperation with the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). All institutions of the consortium have a long standing tradition in the field of Computational Mechanics, with the highest standards both in research and teaching.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
www.upc.edu

Swansea University, UK
www.swansea.ac.uk

Ecole Centrale Nantes (ECN), France
www.ec-nantes.fr

Universität Stuttgart, Germany
www.uni-stuttgart.de

CIMNE is an autonomous international research organization specialized in the development and application of numerical methods in engineering (www.cimne.com)