9th Board of Rectors Meeting 2025, Bonn
The University of Bonn is pleased to host the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting, which is held twice a year. The event will be attended by leaders of the NTEU partner universities, joined by professors, project managers, and students.
NeurotechEU is one of what are now over 60 European university alliances formed in the past five years. The alliances offer researchers, teachers and students ample scope to experiment with new and creative formats and appeal to their innate curiosity to push the boundaries of familiarity and explore new, hitherto undiscovered opportunities. The title chosen for the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors meeting in Bonn—“Ideas. Imagination. Inspiration.”—builds on this core philosophy of the European University Initiative and calls on those in the NeurotechEU community to leave the tangible behind and take the plunge into a world of creative thinking. Working together, we want to come up with innovative ideas, tap into new sources of inspiration and direct the power of our imagination toward what is as-yet uncharted territory.
Dates and Registration
Dates
Monday, May 12, 2025
07:00 pm
Thursday, May 15, 2025
09:00 am - 12:20 pm
Registration
To register for the Board of Rectors Meeting 2025, please contact your local NTEU Project Coordinator.
NeurotechEU Symposium
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The NeurotechEU Symposium, entitled “Advancing Neurotechnology — Bridging Brains, Machines and Society”, will take place at the University of Bonn on the occasion of the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting 2025. The scientific community is invited to attend and participate in discussions on the various aspects of neurotechnology.
06:30 pm: Get-together for all participants of the NeurotechEU Symposium P26
08:30 am - 06:15 pm: NeurotechEU Symposium
The NeurotechEU Symposium, entitled “Advancing Neurotechnology — Bridging Brains, Machines and Society” will take place at the University of Bonn on the occasion of the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting 2025. The scientific community is invited to attend and participate in discussions on the various aspects of neurotechnology.
04:45 - 06:15 pm: Joint WP1/ WP Leads Meeting Argelanderstraße 1
Target Group: WP1 members, WP Leads members
04:00 - 06:00 pm: Student Council Art Project Rectorate
Target Group: Student Council of all partner Universities, supported by Birgit Ulrike Münch
06:30 - 09:30 pm: Welcome reception for all participants of the Board of Rectors Meeting
Auditorium Rectorate
Target group: Members of all alliance partners and scientists of the NeurotechEU Symposium
08:30 - 09:00 am: Registration at Digital Hub
09:00 - 09:45 am: Welcome at Digital Hub
- Rector’s welcome (Michael Hoch)
- Presentation EU Project Adviser (Ana Sofia Coutinho)
- Address from the Coordinator and Secretary General (Richard van Wezel and Mark Vlek de Coningh)
- Practical information for the coming days (UBO NTEU Team)
09:45 - 10:00 am: Allocation of the participants to the rooms Digital Hub, P26, Grand Hall Main Building and Rectorate.
10:00 - 10:15 am: Coffee break
10:15 am - 12:00 pm: Parallel meetings at Digital Hub, P26, Grand Hall Main Building and Rectorate.
- Rectors can join the WG meetings or workshop
| Meeting | Room | Venue |
| BoG | Seminar room 1st floor | P26 |
| Workshop for Scientists | “Grand Hall” | Main Building |
| WG Campus+ (WP2) | Conference room ground floor | Rectorate |
| WG Mobility and credit transfer (WP3) | Seminar room 2nd floor | P26 |
| ad-hoc WG "Milestone Mobility" | "Bonner Bogen" | Digital Hub |
| WG Equity and Equal opportunities (WP3) | “Beethoven” | Digital Hub |
| WG Student Affairs (WP3) | “Berlin” | Digital Hub |
| WG Societal Innovation, NEURICOO (WP4) | Seminar room 3rd floor | P26 |
| WG Impact (WP5) | “Palo Alto” | Digital Hub |
| WG Communication (WP5) | “Drachenburg” | Digital Hub |
12:00 - 12:10 pm: Change to Münster Carré
12:10 - 01:15 pm: Lunch at Münster-Carré or
12:00 - 01:00 pm: Lunch in Grand Hall Main Building (Workshop for Scientists)
01:15 - 01:30 pm: Return and allocation to the rooms
01:30 - 03:15 pm: Parallel meetings at Digital Hub, P26, Grand Hall Main Building and Rectorate.
| Meeting | Room | Venue |
| BoR | “Berlin” | Digital Hub |
| BoG + WP1 | “San Francisco” | Digital Hub |
| Workshop for Scientists | “Grand Hall" | Main Building |
| WG Campus+ (WP2) | Conference room ground floor | Rectorate |
| WG Mobility and credit transfer (WP3) | Seminar room 2nd floor | P26 |
| WG Equity and Equal opportunities (WP3) | “Beethoven” | Digital Hub |
| WG Societal Innovation, USCS (WP4) | Seminar room 3rd floor | P26 |
| WG Museum (WP5) | “Bonner Bogen” | Digital Hub |
| WG Communication (WP5) | “Drachenburg” | Digital Hub |
03:15 - 03:30 pm: Coffee break
End of program for scientists who are not involved in NTEU and primarily participated in the symposium and the workshop.
03:30 - 05:15 pm: Parallel meetings of the Work Packages at Digital Hub and P26
| Meeting | Room | Venue |
| WP1 | Seminar room 1st floor | P26 |
| WP2 | “San Francisco” | Digital Hub |
| WP3 | Seminar room 2nd floor | P26 |
| WP4 | “Berlin” | Digital Hub |
| WP5 | “Palo Alto” | Digital Hub |
05:15 pm: End
Target group: NTEU members of all alliance partners
From 07:00 pm: Social event/ dinner at Maibachfarm, Ahrweiler
Transport:
- Arranged buses will take you to the location and back
- Meeting point: bus stop Hofgarten, at Adenauerallee
- Departure time: 06:00 and 06:15 pm (Please be on time at the meeting point)
Target group: Members of all alliance partners
09:00 - 11:00 am: Parallel meetings at Digital Hub and P26
| Meeting | Room | Venue |
| BoR and BoG | Seminar room 1st floor | P26 |
| WG Finances and administrative (WP1) | “Drachenburg” | Digital Hub |
| Pedagogy Workshop/ Joint WG (WP2) | Seminar room 2nd floor | P26 |
| WG Mobility and credit transfer (WP3) | Seminar room 3rd floor | P26 |
| WG Equity and Equal opportunities (WP3) | “Beethoven” | Digital Hub |
| WG Societal Innovation, Lifelong learning (WP4) | “Berlin” | Digital Hub |
| WG Communication (WP5) | “Bonner Bogen” | Digital Hub |
11:00 - 11:15 am: Return to Digital Hub and coffee break
11:15 am - 12:00 pm: Common Session Digital Hub
- Presentation of the results of the BoR and BoG Meetings
- Outlook Phase III (Richard van Wezel)
12:00 - 12:20 pm: Closing (Rector Michael Hoch) Digital Hub
12:30 - 01:30 pm: Lunch at Münster Carré and departure
01:45 - 03:45 pm: NTEU Joint Master (core-group members), Room: “Berlin”, Digital Hub
01:45 - 03:45 pm: NeurotechEU Student Council meeting, Room: “Palo Alto”, Digital Hub
Information on filming and photography
During the Board of Rectors Meeting and the Symposium, the University of Bonn arranges for photographs to be taken and filming to be done. This will be published online, in printed media and on social media channels for the purpose of promoting its activities. By taking part in these events, participants consent to being photographed and filmed as well as to the associated material being stored and published. Please speak to our photographers and filming team on site if you do not wish to be photographed or filmed.
Locations
The Board of Rectors Meeting will essentially take place at the following locations.
Digital Hub
Am Hauptbahnhof 6, 53111 Bonn
How to find the location
P26 — House of Knowledge and Research
Poststraße 26, 53111 Bonn
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Grand Hall of the University of Bonn’s Main Building
Am Hof 1, 53113 Bonn
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Rectorate of the University of Bonn
Dechenstraße 3–11, 53115 Bonn
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Münster-Carré (Lunch)
Gangolfstraße 14, 53111 Bonn
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Contact and Organisation
Dr. Sarah Monreal
Dr. Verena Schropp
