Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

ChildBrain ETN

Duration: March 2015 to March 2019

ATHENA is an Associated Partner in this European Training Network: the team will participate in training workshops and receive PhD students in secondments.

• Program: European Training Network

• Project acronym: ChildBrain

• Project title: Advancing brain research in children's developmental neurocognitive disorders

• Duration: mois année début - mois année fin

• Coordinator: Prof. Paavo Leppänen, University of Jyváskylä, Finland

• Other partners: University of Leuven (Belgium), University of Münster (Germany), Rabboud University (The Netherlands), Aston University (United Kingdom), IcoMetrix (Belgium), Elekta (Finland), BESA (Germany)

• Abstract: The purpose of the ChildBrain ETN is to train young scientists, i.e. Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), to utilise evidence-based neuroscientific knowledge for helping children, especially those at high risk for dropout due to neurocognitive disorders, to meet future educational and societal demands.