NeurotechEU meets at Karolinska Institutet for the XI Board of Rectors and General Assembly

14 de May de 2026

Around 200 people gathered at Karolinska Institutet (KI) from 11 to 13 May for the European University of Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU) event: Next Generation – Skills, Talent, Careers & Innovation. Students and staff from across the Alliance took part in an event comprising three parallel activities: the XI Board of Rectors, the General Assembly, and the Neuroinnovation Summit. The delegation from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) was led by the Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and Cooperation, Vicente Micol; the Director of the Institute for Neurosciences UMH-CSIC and NeurotechEU lead at UMH, Juana Gallar; and the Director of the International Relations Office, Inmaculada Blaya.

The European Alliance NeurotechEU met at KI to hold the event “Next Generation – Skills, Talent, Careers & Innovation”. Source: NeurotechEU UMH.

The UMH delegation at the General Assembly included the Director of the Area for International Promotion and the Translational Research Centre in Physiotherapy, María del Carmen Lillo, and the Deputy Vice-Rector for Institutional Positioning and Rankings, José Manuel Blanes. Furthermore, several UMH professors involved in creating NeurotechEU teaching content attended: Medicine Professor Ángel C. Pérez Sempere, and Institute for Neurosciences researchers Silvia De Santis and Víctor Meseguer.

The event also saw the participation of NeurotechEU project managers María José Such, quality management expert, Virginia García, and Sonia Martín; new learning models expert Anna Mura; the NeurotechEU communications manager at UMH, Júlia Santacreu; and the UMH student representatives on the NeurotechEU Student Council: Desirée Gracia, Bárbara Corral, and Jorge Maldonado, with the latter two currently undertaking their doctoral studies at the Institute for Neurosciences.

The UMH delegation attending the 11th NeurotechEU General Assembly in Stockholm (Sweden). Source: NeurotechEU UMH.

The General Assembly concluded with a meeting of the NeurotechEU Student Council, where they discussed strategies to ensure student representation throughout the Alliance's second phase. Subsequently, the students attended a social event organised by and for them, in their capacity as representatives of the various consortium universities.

The NeurotechEU Student Council. Source: NeurotechEU UMH.

Running alongside the Board of Rectors and the General Assembly was the annual Neuroinnovation Summit, a conference focused on integrating neurotechnology into healthcare and the commercialisation pathways for research innovations. Representing UMH, researcher Silvia De Santis, head of the Translational Imaging Biomarkers Laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences UMH-CSIC, who delivered a presentation entitled From Diffusion MRI to Virtual Histology: Tracking Neuronal and Glial Changes in Ageing and Alzheimer’s.

Researcher Silvia De Santis from the UMH-CSIC Institute of Neurosciences during her presentation at the Neuroinnovation Summit. Source: NeurotechEU UMH.

NeurotechEU is a European University co-funded by the European Commission, dedicated to creating a higher education and research space focused on neurotechnology. Its goal is to provide affordable technological solutions for health issues related to neuroscience and mental health. In addition to UMH, the NeurotechEU alliance comprises eight other universities: Radboud University (Netherlands), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), the University of Bonn (Germany), Boğaziçi University (Turkey), Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca (Romania), the University of Lille (France), Reykjavik University (Iceland), and the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria).

Source:  The European University of Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU) - UMH (jsantacreu@umh.es)

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