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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: EP/H012958/1
    Funder Contribution: 101,963 GBP

    BCI technology can provide a communication pathway from the brain to the computer which does not rely on neuromuscular control therefore there are many potential beneficiaries of the technology such as those who require an alternative means of communication/control because of neuromuscular deficiencies due to disease, spinal cord injury or brain damage. Being able to offer these people an alternative means of communication through BCI could have a significant impact on their quality of life. There are other applications of BCI, yet to be fully proven and exploited, such as neurofeedback for stroke rehabilitation, the treatment of attention deficit disorder and epileptic seizure prediction, awareness detection for long distance drivers and personalised computing environment adaptation. BCI is also emerging as an augmentative technology in computer games and virtual reality technology and in numerous military applications.Dr. Coyle has been developing BCI technology at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre for the past 6 years and has made substantive progress in developing sophisticated signal processing tools which used to extract the information from a person's brainwaves i.e., their electroencephalogram (EEG) and translate this information into useful control signal for BCI control. To facilitate the advancement of the BCI under development by Dr. Coyle, a strategic partnership with the National Rehabilitation Hospital of Ireland has been agreed to trial BCI-based assistive technology for alternative communication, control and mobility. The research underway is at a stage where extensive clinical trials are required to validate and emphasise the importance of the R&D to date and to develop innovative tools and products for BCI related applications. The NRH is a very suitable institution on the island of Ireland to collaborate with in this endeavour, providing access to and facilitating trials with disabled patients. The NRH is the only in-patient rehabilitation hospital for the treatment of spinal cord injury and head trauma in the Rep. of Ireland and has extensive experience in working with spinal cord injury patients, stroke and head trauma patients and carrying out clinical trials with assistive technologies.With the NRH commitment to facilitating disabled participant trials, Dr. Coyle can focus on BCI technology developments and will be able to thoroughly test these developments in a clinical setting, with the aim of bringing BCI technology into the home. The first phase of the project will involve consolidating and refining Dr. Coyle's research to date in addition to preliminary trials where a number of BCI-specific applications, such as BCI controlled games and robot interfaces, will also be tested. At the end of phase 1 a BCI which can be easily setup, even by a layperson, with automated signal processing and calibration tools will be produced. The second phase of the project will involve extensive trials with healthy subjects to refine protocol, improve robustness and thoroughly validate the development before trials with disabled participants take place in phase 3 In summary, the aims of the two year project are - to produce an accurate and fast BCI system which can be easily configured with automated and advanced signal processing tools. - to develop useful application and make BCI usable and accessible to individuals in most need of the technology- to thoroughly evaluate BCI technology on at least 20 healthy and 10 disabled individuals, with trials carried out over a extended period to verify system robustness and stability.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 101017606
    Overall Budget: 5,520,870 EURFunder Contribution: 4,968,780 EUR

    Some pathologies like stroke, heart attack, COVID-19 or hip-replacement, may have a dramatic impact in the people health and well-being. Rehabilitation has the potential to reduce, and even reverse these impacts. However, it is a long, intensive in clinical resources, and painful process. Rehabilitation is already insufficiently used, and the ageing population is increasing its demand. Remote areas in some European regions face depopulation. It increases the need of age-related care, and that includes rehabilitation, while resources keep limited and inconveniences of traveling makes the treatment painful and even unfeasible. ROSIA proposes to generate a flexible and scalable value-based model of care, organized around self-management, or self-care. of rehabilitation at home, designed from a tailored integrated care model which optimizes the quality of care and the use of clinical resources. Also a strong implication of the community is needed. This model of care is extensive in its use of technology: (i) disruptive solutions at home, (ii) data driven interventions, and (iii) an open platform for third party solutions that integrates timely and effective communication. To make it feasible ROSIA plans to unlock the current market of disruptive solutions for home rehabilitation by the development of the ROSIA Innovation Ecosystem, to enable clinicians prescribing certified solutions, and facilitating to SMEs and researchers the access to health care system. Patient experience and ethics plays a main role in our methodology for development. ROSIA buyers’ group represents three different European healthcare systems: SALUD, a regional authority from Spain; Coimbra Univ. Hospital from Portugal and National Rehabilitation Hospital from Ireland. Validation will take place in two shires/localities per country. ROSIA includes specialized partners in: integrated care, data management and open platforms,value-based health, patient experience, PCP, coordination and dissemination.

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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: EP/V025724/1
    Funder Contribution: 1,807,390 GBP

    Wearable neurotechnology utilization is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years, with applications in enabling movement-independent control and communication, rehabilitation, treating disease and improving health, recreation and sport among others. There are multiple driving forces:- continued advances in underlying science and technology; increasing demand for solutions to repair the nervous system; increase in the ageing population worldwide producing a need for solutions to age-related, neurodegenerative disorders, and "assistive" brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies; and commercial demand for nonmedical BCIs. There is a significant opportunity for the UK to lead in the development of AI-enabled neurotechnology R&D. There are a number of key challenges to be addressed, mainly associated with the complexity of signals measured from the brain. AI has the potential to revolutionise the neurotechnology industry and neurotechnology presents an excellent challenge for AI. This fellowship will build on the award-winning AI and neurotechnology research of the fellow and offer real potential for impact through established clinical partnerships and in the neurotechnology industry. The objective of this project is to build on award-winning AI and neurotechnology R&D to address key shortcomings of neurotechnology that limit its widespread use and adoption using a range of key neural network technologies in a state-of-the-art framework for processing neural signals developed by the proposed fellow. The AI technologies developed for neurotechnology will be applied across sectors to demonstrate translational AI through engagement with at least 10 companies across at least 5 sectors during the fellowship, to demonstrate societal and economic benefit and interdisciplinary and translational AI skills development. The project has multiple industry, clinical and academic partners and is expected to produce world-leading AI technologies and propel the fellow to world-leading status in developing AI for neurotechnology which will impact widely. A major focus of the project is ensuring the expectations of the fellow role are met. This includes:- -Ensuring the processes and resources are in place to build a world-leading profile by the end of the fellowship; -Focusing on planning research of the team as new results emerge and hypothesis are tested, to refine and develop a high-quality programme of ambitious, novel and creative research, in AI-enabled Neurotechnology. Specific focus will be ensuring meticulous planning, execution and follow-up to produce world-leading results; -Continuing to perform my leadership role as director of the ISRC and leader of the data analytics theme, expanding the team and actively seek to develop into a position of higher leadership of the research agenda at Ulster, and in the national and international research community; -Focusing on strengthening relationships and collaborations with colleagues in industry and academia, and maximising the potential for flexible career paths for researchers within the team -Acting as an ambassador and advocate for AI, science and ED&I including by continuing to actively provide opinions and engaging with questions around AI and ethics, and responsible research and innovation (RRI). A focus will be embedding this throughout the activities of the fellowship but across the region and internationally; -Seeking to engage with and influence the strategic direction of the UK AI research and innovation landscape through engagement with their peers, policymakers, and other stakeholders including the public through. -Ensuring that the fundamental research is developed to have a high likelihood of impact on UK society/economy through trials across a range of patient groups to develop the evidence base and transfer of intellectual property to products, in particular through NeuroCONCISE Ltd, a main project partner.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2018-1-IS01-KA102-038723
    Funder Contribution: 13,040 EUR

    Landspítali provides practical training for most students in health care education and is a such an educational institution. The hospital works closely with universities and secondary schools to make the students' training effective and a positive experience for students and facilitators alike. Approximately 1700 students have their practical training at the hospital each year, from different schools and are at various levels in their education. Students from other European countries training at Landspitali are a growing number. All experienced professional staff have a role as facilitators for successful education. The purpose of the project is for students and staff at the University Hospital to experience successful learning and continuous development work, both to learn and facilitate others. Objectives of the project are for University Hospital employees have the opportunity to increase their knowledge about teaching role at the level of vocational training, train as facilitator in simulation training and actively participate in practice development. This way Landspitali's educational role will be promoted. It is important that participants have the opportunity to acquire ways to meet the needs for training in hospitals where hospitalized patients are fewer and weaker than before. Less traditional educational opportunities call for a different kind of teaching provided by the instructors. The project is focused on sending 19 participants, who are already facilitators at the hospital, abroad to acquire additional knowledge and experience in recognized educational institutions, participate as teaching assistants with experienced supervisors, learn about programs for newly graduated staff and participate in workshops of interdisciplinary groups focusing on practice development. The participants will visit in groups of two to four persons to job shadow experienced tutors, be assistants to facilitators or attend workshops or courses focused on specific learning methods. Participants are expected to return inspired in their role as facilitators, attend to their students and newly recruited better than before, be an impressive role model to other staff facilitators and have ideas of new pedagogical approaches. The participants are expected to take on new projects they have learned about during the visit and add to their CV. The educational role of Landspitali will hopefully be more visible and recognized. Students and staff will be enthusiastic in their vocational training at the hospital under the guidance of instructors who are capable and satisfied at their work. Newly graduated among the staff will receive additional support in their future work.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2017-1-IS01-KA102-026473
    Funder Contribution: 19,320 EUR

    Landspítali provides practical training for most students in health care education and is a such an educational institution. The hospital works closely with universities and secondary schools to make the students' training effective and a positive experience for students and facilitators alike. Approximately 1700 students have their practical training at the hospital each year, from different schools and are at various levels in their education. Students from other European countries training at Landspitali are a growing number. All experienced professional staff have a role as facilitators for successful education. The purpose of the project is for students and staff at the University Hospital to experience successful learning and continuous development work, both to learn and facilitate others. Objectives of the project are for University Hospital employees have the opportunity to increase their knowledge about teaching role at the level of vocational training, train as facilitator in simulation training and actively participate in practice development. This way Landspitali's educational role will be promoted. It is important that participants have the opportunity to acquire ways to meet the needs for training in hospitals where hospitalized patients are fewer and weaker than before. Less traditional educational opportunities call for a different kind of teaching provided by the instructors. The project sent 16 participants, who are already facilitators at the hospital, abroad to acquire additional knowledge and experience in recognized educational institutions, learn about programs for newly graduated staff and participate in workshops of interdisciplinary groups focusing on practice development. The participants visited in groups of two to four persons to job shadow experienced tutors, or courses focused on specific learning methods. Participants returned inspired in their role as facilitators, attend to their students and newly recruited better than before, be an impressive role model to other staff facilitators and have ideas of new pedagogical approaches. The participants have taken on new projects they have learned about during the visit and add the experience to their CV. The educational role of Landspitali is more visible and recognized. Students and staff are enthusiastic in their vocational training at the hospital under the guidance of instructors who are capable and satisfied at their work. Newly graduated among the staff receive additional support at work. There is increased cooperation between departments taking care of new staff members.

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