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

HybridNeuro CSA的总体目标是为斯洛文尼亚（一个不断扩大的欧洲发展中国家）与瑞典、英国和西班牙（具有高度研究影响力的成熟欧洲国家）之间的混合神经机器接口领域的长期、结构良好和综合研究和创新伙伴关系建立基础和支持。所解决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，并可用于客观的评估，监测和神经肌肉疾病的康复。该联盟由马里博尔大学（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。所有四位合作伙伴都是生物医学信号处理方面的专家。在HybridNeuro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（自上而下的神经肌肉研究方法）和神经生理学新兴研究途径方面的卓越补充。在大脑信号分析，脑机接口，诱发电位，大脑连接和逆向大脑建模方面的高度专业知识使CUT，ICL和UPC成为提高UM科学和技术能力的最佳领导机构。HybridNeuro旨在通过以下方式促进UM和斯洛文尼亚东部欠发达地区的卓越研究发展：a）早期和高级研究人员的职业生涯形成，B）增加UM对访问研究人员的吸引力，c）提高UM的项目提案和管理能力，d）形成新的和加强工业之间的旧合作，斯洛文尼亚和国外的临床和研究机构与UM以及瑞典，英国和西班牙的结对伙伴，以及e）增加斯洛文尼亚神经科学和神经工程的影响和知名度。

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.