WP1: Community building
The objective of WP1 is to interconnect organizations, national networks, projects, and initiatives on NCT through creating a comprehensive online platform – the NEUROTECH Portal- that is now successfully serving as a go-to link to collect material about NCT and a “meeting point” of the NEUROTECH network. There is also a NEUROTECH blog that is updated at least once a month or any time there is relevant information for the community. We created 4 workgroups: Science, Industry, Ethics, and Future, composed by partners of NEUROTECH and general audience to discuss several topics and define guidelines for the NCT community. the workgroups are open to new members and they meet regularly.
WP2: Academia/Industry Cooperation
The objective of WP2 is to actively promote interactions between industry and academic NCT innovation drivers. We have successfully involved industrial partners in the elaboration of a roadmap for the future development of NCT and to identify and disseminate compelling demonstrations of the NCT that show its commercial viability and potential to drive the development of smart systems of the future. IMEC organized a forum in 2019 and an online version of Forum 2020 will be organized by IBM in November. In addition, there is a specific workgroup on Industry, lead by IMEC, that meets regularly with the members involved.
WP3: Outreach and forming public awareness
The objective of WP3 is to represent the NCT community strongly towards a variety of stakeholders, such as other scientific communities, industry, policymakers, and general public demonstrating and explaining how it can lead to sustainable technology for the benefit of humanity. Partners present the NEUROTECH community with relevant results all around the world. In the website, there are 3 pages under construction with the information on the roadmap, the cartography, and the current state of the art of the neuromorphic technology relevant for the community that will be constantly updated with new projects or technology information. To facilitate the link to the general audience, but also the scientific one, we created a Twitter channel where we announce the news from the partners and all the relevant information for the NCT community in Europe and in the World.
WP4: Education activities
The objective of WP4 is to assemble a coherent collection of educational resources on all aspects of NCT to promote core educational events on NCT, and to disseminate the NCT curriculum to other communities. We created an Educational team composed of UZH, THALES, IBM, HERTFORDSHIRE, and lead by IIT that will organize monthly webinars on introductory information on Neuromorphic computing to reach an audience from other communities. These webinars will be stream live and recorded on a youtube channel (if the speakers agree).
NEUROTECH funded several scholarships for the Capocaccia and telluride Workshop to allow students and PostDoc to participate and compete on for the Demo awards (also funded by NEUROTECH).
WP5: Management and coordination
The objective of this WP is to coordinate activities between the partners for project operation, quality control, and progress reporting, and to create a Data Management Plan and update the Dissemination and Exploitation plans.
