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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 ‘tools’ for information processing that can also control external devices. These include 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.

The school will have a duration of 5 days in total (Tuesday to Saturday morning). The first day will feature advanced tutorials with the goal of equalizing the backgrounds of students from different disciplines. These tutorials will focus on background materials directly relevant to the topic of the summer school, that will improve understanding of the expert presentations that will follow in day 2-4 of the school.

Friday afternoon and Saturday morning will be devoted to practical lecturers and Lab activities.

The first day will be devoted to presenting important concepts and data from neuroscience for students from technical disciplines, and for presenting topics in neuro-IT and neuroengineering for student from life science.

The other three days of the school feature expert lectures on selected topics under the theme “Dynamics, Computation and Learning in Neural Systems”. These lectures will cover state-of-the-art research related to one or multiple of the topics mentioned below. Students participating to the school are invited to present their own activity in specific dedicated sessions. Lab sessions will be organized on Friday 16th (afternoon) and Saturday 17th (morning) and they will be devoted to practical presentations and activities on:

- NEURON simulator
- Data analysis for multisite recorded neuronal signals

Students interested in such activities are requested to specifically enroll to one or both Lab. The Lab activity are included in the registration fees.