PERPLEXUS member Francesco Mondada from EPFL organised a robotics festival ("Festival de robotique"; http://festivalrobotique.epfl.ch/) on 16 May, 2009. The festival was a great opportunity especially for children interested in technology in general and robotics in particular to get hands-on experience with the world of robotics in a multitude of expositions and stands, and the event accordingly attracted a great number of visitors. Congratulations to Francesco Mondada for the organisation of such a successful event!

The European Future Technologies Conference was held in Prague, 20-23 April 2009. The Conference is dedicated to frontier research in future and emerging information technologies. A stand was dedicated to the PERPLEXUS project (Stand G1-Ubiquitous computing modules for complex systems modelling).

The student Lukasz Kotynia from the University of Lodz (Poland) won the first prize at the Cadence European Electronic Design Contest for the work entitled: "Implementation of encoder/decoder modules for communication in spiking neural networks" (read article)