The school will focus on a new and rapidly growing field – the areas of neuro-information technologies (Neuro-IT) and neuroengineering where neuroscience, information technologies and robotics merge.

The school will be organized and partly funded by Neuro-IT.net, and NEUROversIT, an EU-funded Marie Curie program.

The 2006 edition of the school will specifically focuses on the dynamical, adaptive and computational properties of neural systems, seen as ‘devices’ that process information and can control external devices.

This includes neural prostheses, brain-machine interfaces and neurally controlled robots.

The objective is to move beyond the well established neuroinformatics or AI (Artificial Intelligence) domains by fostering research that would benefit both the neuroscience (NS) and Information Technology (IT) communities by helping solve the fundamental problems linked to the emergence and the modelling of computational properties, learning and cognitive processes in natural systems.

The goal is for IT to profit from NS results to improve IT artifacts and for NS to validate models or hypotheses with a better use of IT.

Neuro-IT.net and the NEUROversIT consortium is therefore committed to spearheading the emergence of visionary long term research objectives that could fully exploit the potential of collaboration between neurosciences and information technology.