On behalf of Rector Michael Hoch and the Vice Rectors Birgit Ulrike Münch and Ilona Grunwald, we would like to cordially invite you to this year's NeurotechEU Meet-up Bonn. This year's event will be hosted by Matthias Braun and is entitled:  Deep Fakes - Between Nudging and  Manipulating  Generative AI is creating digital replicas on an unprecedented scale, and these are being manipulated and misused. Deep fakes are an issue in many areas, and it is already clear that the technology will continue to develop in this area in the future and could play a role in more and more sectors of society. The banking and finance sector, the education sector, but especially the healthcare sector, are coming under increasing pressure. Although healthcare is one of the most regulated industries, based on the principles of trust and precision, the risks of counterfeiting are still underestimated. Digital fakes in their current form can easily tempt patients to follow unproven and untested treatments that could cost lives. There is, therefore, an urgent need to understand and address the issues arising from the use of deep fakes in healthcare to avoid confusion, mistrust and compromised health outcomes. At the same time, deep fakes pose larger epistemological and ethical questions: How can we be sure of anything we know? How might we use technology to distinguish fact from fiction? In what domains might humans have always accepted fakes and still make good decisions?

The Miguel Hernández University of Elche is pleased to invite you to the NeurotechEU Winter School on "Challenges and risks of neuroscience and neurotechnology in times of Artificial Intelligence”. The Winter School will take place from December 16-18, 2024 in Elche, Spain.

Melden Sie sich JETZT für den Online-Kurs ab dem 21. Oktober an!

Karolinska Institutet opens their doctoral courses for PhD candidates within the NeurotechEU alliance. This course aims to provide a deeper understanding of neurodegenerative disorders, focusing on molecular mechanisms and techniques used for studying these, as well as treatment strategies. Interested PhD students of the University of Bonn are invited to apply. 

Join us for an unforgettable night, generously sponsored by Proteintech. This isn't your typical science gathering; it's a celebration of the twists and turns, the trials and tribulations that make science so intriguing—and you, a better researcher.

Karolinska Institutet opens their doctoral courses for PhD candidates within the NeurotechEU alliance. This course aims to provide a basis in cognitive neuroscience and the neuroanatomy that supports it. The course will enable participants to get a good understanding of how the brain makes decisions, forms long term memories and handles emotions.

We are thrilled to invite you to the second challenge-driven and applied NeurotechEU hackathon! You as a student or researcher, will work in teams, drawing from all your experiences and expertise to find new and creative solutions to a complex and multifaceted challenge relevant for the NeurotechEU alliance. NeurotechEU Student Teams will be working on a challenge related to socio-technological citizenship. The chosen angle and exact theme will be revealed on the first day of the hack. The aim of a challenge-driven hackathon is to bring people with various perspectives together and engage you to work intensely to accelerate innovative ideas, solutions, and potential paths forward to pressing and relevant issues. The hackathon is not about programming, it's a team-oriented event set up by Boğaziçi University in cooperation with the BME/Technological and Societal Innovation Workgroup to find innovative solutions to societal challenges related to socio-technological citizenship.