SYNCH (824162)

  https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/824162

  Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)

  A SYnaptically connected brain-silicon Neural Closed-loop Hybrid system

  FET Proactive: emerging paradigms and communities (FETPROACT-01-2018)

  internet  ·  analogue electronics  ·  evolutionary biology  ·  metalloids  ·  computational intelligence

  2019-01-01 Start Date (YY-MM-DD)

  2023-06-30 End Date (YY-MM-DD)

  € 4,277,868 Total Cost

  Description

The brain, with its remarkable computational properties, provides animals with capabilities of physical autonomy, interaction and adaptation that are unmatched by any artificial system. The brain is a complex network that has evolved to optimize processing of real-world inputs by relying on event-based signaling and self-reorganizing connectivity. Spikes (the events) are transmitted between neurons through synapses which undergo continuous ‘birth’-‘death’ and adjustment, reconfiguring brain circuits and adapting processing to ever changing inputs. The scientific and technological objective of the project is to create a hybrid system where a neural network in the brain of a living animal (BNN) and a silicon neural network of spiking neurons on a chip (SNN) are interconnected by neuromorphic synapses, thus enabling co-evolution of connectivity and co-processing of information of the two networks

  Complicit Organisations

1 Israeli organisation participates in SYNCH.