  A microscopic and consistent description of both nuclear structure and
reactions is instrumental to extend the predictivity of models calculating
scattering observables. In particular, this is crucial in the case of exotic
nuclei not yet discovered.
  In this manuscript, we will present the plan of the Lund effort for a
symmetry breaking description of bound and scattering observables using a
generator coordinate method model based on an effective Hamiltonian constrained
with a (Skyrme) functional. Following this, we will illustrate the steps to
construct an optical potential for deformed nuclei from microscopic
wavefunctions obtained with projected generator coordinate method from
Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov basis.
