Project description Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativityCREAM, CReativity Enhancement through Advanced brain Mapping and stimulation Main idea behind this project: current ICT technology provides new capabilities to measure the functional activity of the brain and to compute in real-time stimuli that can be applied to the brain itself in order to train and modify its activity. This new frontier of research is made possible by a dramatic increase in cheap computing power, novel design methodologies for high-performance software, integrated circuits and systems for sensors and actuators, and algorithms and software environments for collaborative interaction of people cooperating on solving a specific problem. This project will explore the consequences of exploiting these novel technologies in a deliberate attempt to improve a higher-order task such as creativity.Creativity is hard to define, even harder to measure. It is multifaceted, has multilevel components, and is further a multidimensional construct. Therefore any attempt for a unitary definition of creativity would be futile, if not impossible. Nevertheless, our predominant approach is process-centric i.e. we consider that creativity is fundamentally a property of a process (as in a "creative act"). The exhibition of that property may then, in common parlance, be transferred to the organism or machine that is executing the process (as in a "creative person") or its product (as in a "creative novel"). A major advantage of taking the process view is that it begins to demystify creativity itself, simply because value is traditionally attributed to a created product or artefact only after its achievement and societal acceptance, and further, value varies with many uncontrollable factors including tradition, time and culture ; therefore, success, and the associated social pedestals on which "famous creators" are often placed, become less relevant; it is the attempt, not product, that counts (though we do not entirely discard the product-centric approach of creativity). Show the project objective Hide the project objective Current ICT technology provides new capabilities to measure the functional activity of the brain and to compute in real-time stimuli that can be applied to the brain itself in order to train and modify its activity. This new frontier of research is made possible by a dramatic increase in cheap computing power, novel design methodologies for high-performance software, integrated circuits and systems for sensors and actuators, and algorithms and software environments for collaborative interaction of people cooperating on solving a specific problem. This project will explore the consequences of exploiting these novel technologies in a deliberate attempt to improve a higher-order task such as creativity. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.8.1 - Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Address Via zamboni 33 40126 Bologna Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Anna Ronchi (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 580 548,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN Austria EU contribution € 290 972,00 Address Spitalgasse 23 1090 Wien See on map Region Ostösterreich Wien Wien Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Wolfgang Drexler (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window GUGER TECHNOLOGIES OG Austria EU contribution € 455 738,00 Address Herbersteinstrasse 60 8020 Graz See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Graz Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christoph Guger (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA Spain EU contribution € 239 840,00 Address Padre herrera s/n 38200 San cristobal de la laguna See on map Region Canarias Canarias Tenerife Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact María de la Luz Estévez Ravelo (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FONDAZIONE GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italy EU contribution € 383 872,00 Address Via dei celestini 1 40037 Sasso marconi See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window GOLDSMITHS' COLLEGE United Kingdom EU contribution € 524 534,00 Address Lewisham way SE14 6NW London See on map Region London Inner London — East Lewisham and Southwark Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Justin Davin-Smith (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ENGINE PARTNERS UK LLP United Kingdom EU contribution € 224 496,00 Address Great portland street 60 W1W 7RT London See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Pete Edwards (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
