Dear Follower,
We wish you all the best for the New Year!
We hope you enjoyed a peaceful and quiet holiday season and had some time to rest and reflect on the events and achievements of the past year.
While everything is slowly returning to a normal pace and the finishing touches are put on last year’s projects, the beginning of a new year also is a time of determination, when new plans and resolutions are made and the motivation to face new challenges is at a peak.
In terms of opportunities to gain new insights, starting new projects and broadening your horizons, the new year has quite a lot to offer: In February, the 3rd HBP Student Conference will provide an open forum for interdisciplinary exchange among young researchers working in neuroscience, brain medicine and computer science. From May to September, the third series of HBP Curriculum Workshops will take place at HBP partner institutions all over Europe. Throughout the year, a number of hands-on workshops will offer specific training in the use of the HBP Research Infrastructure and tools. In addition to our physical meetings, a wide range of videos and distance learning courses is also available online on our website.
We are looking forward to an exciting year with many familiar and new faces, fruitful discussions across scientific disciplines, and new insights and collaborations!
Best regards,
Your Education Programme Team
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The online registration deadline for the 3rd HBP Student Conference is approaching! Register now to save on attendance fees. More...
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The first HBP Curriculum Workshop of 2019 will be about innovation and entrepreneurship - IPR, translation and exploitation of research. More...
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This year, there will be two HBP Curriculum Workshops on ICT for non-specialists! Number one is about Spiking Neural Networks. More...
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Participate & Collaborate
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The 3rd HBP Student Conference provides an open forum for the exchange of new ideas among young researchers working across various aspects of science relevant to the Human Brain Project. The conference offers a space for extensive scientific dialogue, both intra- and interdisciplinary, among peers and faculty through a variety of keynote lectures and discussion sessions, student presentations and social events.
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Information about organisations offering travel support can be found on our website: bit.ly/HBPStudents
Join our dedicated #studentconference channel in the HBP Students Slack to connect with other participants before the event!
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21st International Neuroscience Winter Conference
31 March - 4 April 2019
Sölden, Austria
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The International Neuroscience Winter Conference has been established as a high-quality meeting on contemporary neuroscience for many years. The 21st edition of the conference once again aims at inviting most distinguished neuroscientists as keynote speakers and selecting high-quality symposia.
Important dates:
11 Feb. 2019: Abstract deadline
15 March 2019: Online registration closes
Further information: http://www.winterneuroscience.org/2019/
Contact: office@brainplatform.net
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This 3-day hands-on workshop gives researchers the opportunity to access valuable training, expertise in different areas, feedback and networking opportunities, in order to support participants in bringing their research results in the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine to market.
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NEST Conference 2019
24-25 June 2019
Ås, Norway
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The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology to the 2019 NEST Conference. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application.
The conference will take place on the beautiful campus of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, just 30 km south of Oslo, during the brightest time of the year.
Save the date and stay tuned for more information!
Hans Ekkehard Plesser & Susanne Kunkel
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Spiking neural networks are a special class of artificial neural networks, which have shown to be excellent control systems for biological organisms. They have the potential to produce good control systems for autonomous robots. This workshop aims to bring together neuroscientists with roboticists and computational researchers developing biologically-inspired learning algorithms for scientific and industrial applications.
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Application is open to the entire student and early-career researcher community, both from within and outside the Human Brain Project. All early-career scientists are encouraged to participate and it is aimed to achieve equal representation of all sexes.
Registration fee per workshop: € 250,00.
The fee does not include travel and accommodation. Fees will be collected after participants have been selected.
A limited number of fee waivers are available for participants who submit an abstract for poster presentation. To apply for support, please send an email to
curriculum.edu@humanbrainproject.eu.
Please check with your supervisor how your institution can support you with regard to expenses for the attendance of the workshops. Further information about organisations offering travel support can also be found on our website: bit.ly/HBPStudents
Participants have the possibility of taking an exam related to the online content of the Curriculum courses. Upon successful completion, ECTS credits can be awarded.
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New HBP Curriculum Online Course:
Cognitive systems for non-specialists
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In the context of the third Teaching Cycle, a new course on the topic of “Cognitive systems for non-specialists” was added to the online course collection.
This course aims at providing an introduction to the theory of cognitive systems from a computational-neuroscientific perspective.
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Special focus is put on the role of robotics as a means to ground cognitive function in bodies that physically interact within different types of environments.
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On our website we have a number of online activities available for those who can't make it to our physical events:
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HBP Partnering Environment
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EIT Health Wild Card Programme
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Through the Wild Card Programme, EIT Health is looking to recruit individuals and small teams ready to make a game-changing difference to the new healthcare challenge areas of mental and brain health and digital biomarkers.
The Wild Card Programme participants will receive mentoring, coaching and networking to build teams and support their idea for a healthcare product or solution, thus allowing teams to accelerate their ideas.
Submission deadline: 10 February 2019
Further information and programme outline: https://wildcard.eithealth.eu
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For the participation in the HBP Curriculum on Interdisciplinary Brain Science, it is possible to receive up to 12 ECTS credits.
ECTS credits are awarded by the Medical University of Innsbruck / Austria (MUI) if the following conditions are fulfilled:
- Full attendance of one workshop
- Registration for HBP online course on Interdisciplinary Brain Science via email to curriculum.edu@humanbrainproject.eu, stating which online course(s) you would like to attend
- Attendance of the online course(s)
- Successful completion of exam(s)
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Event support
Are you an early career researcher/ developer in an HBP Partnering Project? Are you looking for support to attend HBP events (education, workshops, symposia)? Do you want to raise the profile of your contribution to science?
Good news, SCOPE can help with that!
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TARGET GROUP: Partnering Projects Members including
- Master's students already carrying out research
- PhD students
- Researchers who received their doctoral degree within the past three years
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HBP Student Community site
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On the student community sub-site on our website, you can get to know the HBP Student Reps & Ambassadors and find further useful information.
Do you want to come in contact with other students all over HBP and beyond? A Slack channel has been created for the HBP Student Community to exchange and connect to each other.
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The channel now also includes a sub channel for peer groups, where students can support each other via exchange of experiences, questions, feedback and suggestions on specific topics.
Student Community site: http://bit.ly/HBPStudents
Contact HBP Student Representatives: studentrep@humanbrainproject.eu
We also love to hear about HBP student life on social media. Feel free to share your stories and experiences with us using the hashtag #studentsinHBP!
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If you have any news about educational events or activities that you consider relevant for the student and young researcher community and wish to be shared via our channels, please feel free to contact us any time!
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