Hybrid neuroscience based on cerebral and muscular information for motor rehabilitation and neuromuscular disorders (HybridNeuro)

HybriNeuro CSA的总体目标是为斯洛文尼亚与瑞典、英国和西班牙之间在混合神经-机器接口领域建立长期、结构良好和综合的研究和创新伙伴关系奠定基础和提供支持。斯洛文尼亚是一个不断扩大的发展中欧洲国家，瑞典、英国和西班牙是成熟的欧洲国家，具有很高的研究影响力。寻址的混合神经机器接口利用非侵入性记录的大脑和肌肉信号，并可用于神经肌肉疾病的客观评估、监测和康复。该财团由马里博尔大学(UM)、查尔默斯理工大学(CUT)、伦敦帝国理工学院(ICL)和加泰罗尼亚技术大学(UPC)组成。所有四个合作伙伴都是生物医学信号处理方面的专家。在HybriNeuro项目中，UM在肌肉-机器接口(自下而上的神经肌肉研究方法)方面的专业知识将得到CUT、ICL和UPC在脑机接口(神经肌肉研究的自上而下方法)和神经生理学的新兴研究途径的卓越补充。在大脑信号分析、脑机接口、诱发电位、大脑连通性和大脑反向建模方面的高水平专业知识使CUT、ICL和UPC成为提升UM科技能力的最佳领先机构。HybriNeuro的目标是通过a)早期和高级研究人员的职业形成，b)增加UM对来访研究人员的吸引力，c)改进UM的项目提案和管理能力，d)与UM和瑞典、英国和西班牙的UM和姊妹合作伙伴在斯洛文尼亚国内外的工业、临床和研究机构之间形成新的和加强的合作关系，以及e)提高神经科学和神经工程在斯洛文尼亚的影响力和知名度，从而促进UM和欠发达的斯洛文尼亚东部地区研究卓越的发展。

The overall objective of the HybridNeuro CSA is to create the bases and support for long-term, well-structured and integrated research and innovation partnership in the field of hybrid neural-machine interfaces between Slovenia, a widening, developing European country and Sweden, United Kingdom and Spain, well established European countries with high research impact. The addressed hybrid neural machine interfaces utilize noninvasively recorded cerebral and muscular signals and can be used for objective assessment, monitoring, and rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders. The consortium is composed of University of Maribor (UM), Chalmers University of Technology (CUT), Imperial College London (ICL) and Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). All four partners are experts in biomedical signal processing. In the HybridNeuro project, UM’s expertise in muscle-machine interfaces (bottom-up approach to neuromuscular investigations) will be complemented by the excellence of CUT, ICL and UPC in emerging research avenue of brain machine interfaces (top-down approach to neuromuscular investigations) and neurophysiology. High expertise in analysis of cerebral signals, brain-computer interfaces, evoked potentials, brain connectivity, and inverse cerebral modelling makes CUT, ICL and UPC the optimal leading institutions to enhance the scientific and technological capacity of UM. HybridNeuro aims to foster the development of research excellence at UM and in less-developed eastern Slovenian region through a) career forming of early-stage and senior researchers, b) increasing the attractiveness of UM for visiting researchers, c) improving project proposal and management capacity at UM, d) forming new and strengthening old collaborations between industrial, clinical and research institutions in Slovenia and abroad with UM and twinning partners in Sweden, the UK and Spain, and e) increasing the impact and visibility of neuroscience and neuroengineering in Slovenia.