The work performed in the project can be summarized as follows:
1. After a broad international call attracting 401 applicants from 67 different countries, we carefully selected 15 excellent early-stage researchers to be trained by the consortium. Each of these early-stage researchers were subsequently enrolled in an individual PhD program co-supervised by an academic, a clinical, and an industrial mentor. The researchers followed an individual research plan centered around one of the four major brain disease categories we aimed to tackle.
2. We organized five week-long training events: three TRABIT training schools (attended by all TRABIT early-stage researchers as well as 28 external PhD students) and two internal TRABIT workshops (focused on the TRABIT students' research work). These events took place in Munich, Copenhagen, Lausanne and Eindhoven, and -- during the pandemic -- virtually, and offered 10 scientific courses as well as 7 transferable skills courses in total. Dedicated attention was given to hands-on training in a commonly adopted rapid-prototyping software environment to facilitate testing, demonstrating the developed tools in hospital environments, and disseminating the obtained models and methods.
3. As a final event, we also organized an international conference entitled "Translational Brain Image Analysis" (see
https://trabit-network.github.io/conference(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). This online event, which focused on one specific scientific work package of TRABIT on each of the four subsequent days, was widely advertised internationally and well attended (171 participants excluding the speakers). It included internationally leading keynote speakers; round table discussions with panel members from academia, hospitals and the European medical imaging industry; 2-minute pitches by the TRABIT ESRs; and several networking sessions.
4. Over the project period, many TRABIT early-stage researchers developed open-source software; some contributed to patents and/or commercial software products & services; while yet others focused on enabling future research activities outside the action. Overall, around 90 full-length, peer-reviewed scientific articles were published by the TRABIT ESRs - around half of these appeared as journal papers, whereas the remaining ones were published in conference/workshop proceedings. One ESR filed a patent application.
5. We have maintained an active website (
https://www.trabit.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) that features, among many other things, 1-1.5min video clips explaining each ESR's work and its impact in a form that is accessible to the general audience. In addition a number of blog entries and newsletters reporting on important project-related events, the website also has an automatic twitter feed displaying the messages posted on the (very active) TRABIT twitter account (
https://twitter.com/TRABIT_ITN(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). Overall the TRABIT website has served as a central dissemination platform for the network, and contains all the information concerning the consortium, its ESRs, the project objectives, TRABIT training events, and our publications.
