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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">The </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">registration </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">for the BCBT2021 summer school is now open.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.5pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)"><font size="4">Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology Summer School</font></span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">J</span><font face="arial, sans-serif">oin us for the <span lang="EN-GB">annual </span>"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school - BCBT" to be held 13<span lang="EN-GB">-16</span> September
20<span lang="EN-GB">21</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This year, given the COVID-19 pandemic, the school will have a reduced format and will be held online.</span></div>
<div>BCBT<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> has run with great success </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">for the last </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">1</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">3</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">th
years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers, 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></div>
<div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Previous </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">BCBT lectures </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">and </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">the BCBT
podcast interviews with many of the BCBT speakers are available online at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ConvergentScienceNw/playlists" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.youtube.com/user/ConvergentScienceNw/playlists</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://csnetwork.eu/talks/podcast" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">http://csnetwork.eu/talks/podcast</span></span></a></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit of "BIO-ICT convergence," "Brain Inspired ICT," "Cognitive systems-robotics," "Cognitive and neural systems," "Foundations of
social cognition." The BCBT school promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This year </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">BCBT offer</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">s free registrations for</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> student</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">s</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">and </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">researchers </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">to </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">attend </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">online</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> presentations
and discussion sessions as they are interested.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> S</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">lots for practical workshops</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> will
be organized depending on the number of attendees.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,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 with road-mapping workshops and further discussion.</span></div>
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<div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">T</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">he 20</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">21</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> edition </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">is
a</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">1-</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">week </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">event, and
in the first half, we will be</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> addressing </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">System-level understanding of the brain and its emulation in advanced technology</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In
the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">2nd </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">half,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">we
will focus on </span><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Brain Function and Behavior</b><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> in health and disease</span></b><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</b></div>
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<div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Check the program here </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt21/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span lang="EN-GB">https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt21/</span></a></span></div>
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<div><a href="https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt21/registration/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Registration</b></span><b> deadline</b></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">10
September</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">2021</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Roboto">If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr. Anna Mura at </span><a href="mailto:amura@ibecbarcelona.eu" target="_blank" style="font-family:Roboto">amura@ibecbarcelona.eu</a></div>
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<div><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">T</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">he 20</i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">21</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> edition of the BCBT </i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">is</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> support</i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">ed
by</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">the </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://specs-lab.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i><span lang="EN-GB">SPECS-lab</span></i></a></span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> at</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> the
Institute </i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">for</span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Bioengineering of Catalonia</i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://ibecbarcelona.eu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">IBEC</span></span></i></a></span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">,
in collaboration with </span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">EU project</i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">s: </span></i><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">RGS@home,
Rehyb, euSNN, NEST, HR-Recycler</span></div>
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<div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">BCBT is organized by</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Paul Verschure. ICREA and IBEC Barcelona, ES</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Anna Mura, IBEC Barcelona, ES</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Tony Prescott, Sheffield Univ., UK</span></div>
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<div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">in Collaboration with </b></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Sten Grillner, Karolinska Institute, SE</span></div>
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<div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/" target="_blank">10th Living Machines conference</a> 28-30 July 2021</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="https://bcbt.specs-lab.com/bcbt21/" target="_blank">13th Barcelona Cognition, Brain, Technology summer school </a>13-16 Sept 2021</span></font></div>
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