<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">----------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">----------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School (BCBT2016)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">5-16 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">September 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt15/home" target="_blank">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16<span lang="EN-US"><br><br></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>Join us for the annual <b>"Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school - BCBT2016 </b>" (see</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"> <a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/home" target="_blank">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/home</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">) to be held 5-16 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">September 2016 in Barcelona Spain</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">.<br><br>The BCBT summer school is positioned at the interface between biology and future and emerging technologies with an emphasis on the principles underlying brains and their translation to avant-garde technologies. BCBT promotes a shared systems-level understanding of the functional architecture of the brain and its possible emulation in artificial systems.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The summer school has been part of a series of events organized by the European coordination action Convergent Science Network of Biomimetics and Neurotechnology (</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank">http://csnetwork.eu/</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This year the school will be supported by the EU projects socSMCs</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> (Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies) - A FET Proactive Horizon 2020 funded research project. (</span><a href="http://socsmcs.eu/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://socsmcs.eu/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This is the 9th year of BCBT, which has ran with great success in previous years thanks to an excellent line-up of outstanding speakers (see<a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/" target="_blank">bcbt.upf.edu</a> for previous editions of the school). BCBT lectures are available online (see </span><a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/media" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/media</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">) with the BCBT<u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Podcast interviews </span></u>with many of the BCBT speakers.<br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">BCBT caters to students and researchers involved in projects that are in the ambit of “BIO-ICT convergence”, "Brain Inspired ICT", “Cognitive systems-robotics”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">The atmosphere of the BCBT summer school is informal with the goal to stimulate in-depth discussion. There are 1 or 2 presentations in the morning, with the afternoons reserved for tutorials and projects for student participants and road-mapping workshops or further discussion for senior scientists.<br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">For the 2016 edition we plan a <b>1^st week</b> of the school addressing <b>Neural basis of social interaction </b>while the <b>2^nd week</b> will include presentations aimed at the investigation of <b>Socializing Sensorimotor Contingencies</b>. Friday 16 is reserved for the presentation of the student projects to which everybody is invited.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Application deadline: July 27th, 2016</span></b></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Arial"><div style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US">For more information on how to apply, please go to</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/participate" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial">http://bcbt.upf.edu/bcbt16/participate</span></a></span></div></span><p style="font-size:12.8px"></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">BCBT and is co-organized by</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><b>Paul Verschure </b>(BCBT Chair)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">, ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><b>Andrea Engel</b> (BCBT Co-Chair) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), DE</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:19.2px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><b>Anna Mura</b> (BCBT Co-Chair)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, ES</span></p></div>