<div dir="ltr"><div>** share with your colleagues **</div><div>-------------------------------------------------------</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">[BCBT 2019] REGISTRATION IS OPEN!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">----------------------------------------------------------</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2019) </span></b><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">with the Virtual Brain Cloud project.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2-13 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">September 2019 </span><a href="http://specs.ibecbarcelona.eu/bcbt2018/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt19/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Join us for a special edition of the <b>"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school - BCBT2019 </b>" with the<b> Virtual Brain Cloud project,</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> to be held 2-13 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">September 2019, at the Institute of Bioengineering of Barcelona, Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The BCBT </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">school promotes a shared a systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence,” "Brain Inspired ICT", VR-based Brain Rehabilitation, “Cognitive and neural systems, Cognitive systems-robotics.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This is the 12th edition of BCBT, which has run with great success in previous years thanks to an an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">including Nobel Laureate winner Edvard Moser and luminaries in the fields of neurosciences, psychology, biology, robotics and AI, such as M. Arbib, S. Grillner, G. Rizzolatti, among many.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">For the 2019 edition, we plan a <b>1^st week</b> of the school addressing </span><b style="font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">System-level understanding of the brain and its emulation in advanced technology. </span></b><span lang="EN-US">The <b>2^nd week</b> will include presentations aimed at the investigation of </span><strong style="font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Learning and Memory, Brain Function, and Behavior</span></strong><b style="font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The last day of the school<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-US">is reserved for the presentation of the student projects.</span><br></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">BCBT will offer up to 30 student slots for the practical workshops, while as many researchers can register to attend the presentations and discussion sessions as they are interested.</span><br></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is informal to stimulate in-depth discussion. There are 2 or 3 presentations in the morning, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and projects for student participants and senior scientists for further discussion.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><br></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Application deadline: 15 August 2019  </b><br><a href="https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt19/registration/" target="_blank">https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt19/registration</a><br></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">BCBT is organized by:</span><br></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:10pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">- Paul Verschure. ICREA and IBEC Barcelona, ES<br>- Tony Prescott, Sheffield University, UK<br>- Anna Mura, IBEC Barcelona, ES<br>- Petra Ritter, Charite, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For the <span class="gmail-m_7259778284501911754gmail-m_-5727363715627277736gmail-m_1189216784761498788gmail-il">2019</span> edition of the <span class="gmail-m_7259778284501911754gmail-m_-5727363715627277736gmail-m_1189216784761498788gmail-il">BCBT</span> summer school, we are counting on the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">support of the EU project </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219020/factsheet/en" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Virtual Brain Cloud</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/TVB_cloud" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US">https://twitter.com/TVB_cloud</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">), the EIT Health project RGS@home, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;back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