Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme in Brain and Data Science
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
BIU’s Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, established in 2002, epitomises the concept of multidisciplinary brain research. The Center, headed by faculty who are leading experts in their research fields, is a unique hub of top-level research, bringing together more than 40 laboratories under one roof.
The Center’s research spans many subjects, including neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, biophysics, and machine learning. It offers undergraduate and graduate (MSc, PhD) programs in Brain Science with multiple undergraduate, double-major degree options.
School of Medicine and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Source: The university of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb (UNIZG), the flagship educational institution in Croatia, will provide the compulsory summer school under the joint auspices of its School of Medicine (UZSM) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER).
UZSM, founded in 1917, is the oldest, most respected, and largest institution offering medical studies in Croatia. The School collaborates on four European projects within the EU Horizon program and has received grants for two EU Centres of Excellence – the Centre of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine, and the Centre of Excellence for Basic, Clinical, and Translational Neuroscience.
FER is the largest technical faculty and leading educational and research institution in the fields of electrical engineering, information and communication technology, and computing in Croatia. The Faculty, which was one of four faculties formed out of UNIZG’s former College of Engineering in 1956, comprises 12 departments in a variety of fields.
Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Source: Instituto Superior Tecnico
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the largest and most respected engineering school in Portugal, integrating competencies from the most basic to applied disciplines in a unique scientific environment. The Institute for Systems and Robotics is one of the main poles of brain research within IST. This Institute is a multidisciplinary research centre in Robotics and Information Processing, including Systems and Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, AI and Intelligent Systems, and Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Engineering focuses on advancing techniques for biomedical imaging in the fields of neuroscience and oncology.
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
Source: University of Padua
The Department of General Psychology, established in 1919, is devoted to world-class empirical human and animal psychology studies. The scientific activity can be defined as top-notch basic research on human cognitive/emotional functioning, performed by using non-invasive behavioural, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques. Research topics investigated cover virtually all psychological domains. They include life-span perception and psychophysics, learning and memory, attentional processes, emotions, language, numerical cognition, action and movement, both in healthy individuals and in patients with emotional disorders, cognitive and behavioural from a perspective of maintaining wellness and health, prevention, evaluation, and rehabilitation treatment. View the activities in the department on its YouTube channel.
Faculty of Science and Vrije University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Faculty of Science and the Vrije University Medical Center (VUmc) jointly offer a research graduate program explicitly focusing on fundamental, behavioural, and clinical neuroscience research. Students are trained to be the future generations of neuroscientists who employ their expertise beyond the boundaries of their field of research and related research areas, thereby allowing them to advance neuroscientific knowledge that ultimately helps bridge the bench-to-bedside gap.
Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The University of Jyväskylä (JYU) has a long history of researching and teaching cognitive and behavioural neuroscience and computational and data sciences. Undergraduate degrees within these fields are offered in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Mathematical Information Technology, and Information and Software Engineering. JYU has offered undergraduate studies (minor) in Cognitive Neuroscience since 2014, and in the spring of 2021, a new graduate Brain and Data Science programme was launched, targeting students from multidisciplinary backgrounds.