Partner 8 - SCIPROM is a young Swiss company that supports researchers in European and National projects, networks, and research consortia. SCIPROM helps with or takes over project construction, submission, negotiation, execution and management.

Partner 4 - UNIL, University of Lausanne, Institute of Applied Mathematics (IMA), will provide expertise in mathematical modelling in the social sciences, complex systems, and agent-based models.

Partner 3 - UJF, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Laboratory of Preclinical Neuroscience, will provide expertise in large-scale neural networks simulation, spatiotemporal feature analysis, neurophysiology, models for learning processes, and bio-inspired evolutionary techniques.

Partner 2 - UPC, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Advanced Hardware Architectures (AHA) Group, brings a longstanding competence and experience in advanced hardware architectures and neural networks. This expertise includes high-performance programmable architectures, such as field-programmable systems on chip.

Partner 5 - TUL, Politechnika Lodzka, Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science (DMCS), will provide an experience in full custom design of integrated circuits as well as in modelling and synthesis based on hardware description languages.

Partner 6 - CNRS-LIRMM, LIRMM, Laboratory of informatic, robotic and microelectronic of Montpellier, has been conducting for almost a decade research in the area of dynamically and self-organizing reconfigurable components. CNRS-LIRMM will provide its expertise in defining and designing the necessary reconfiguration mechanisms at both the ubidule level and the network level.

Partner 1 - HEIG-VD, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, Institute of Reconfigurable & Embedded Digital Systems (REDS), will provide expertise in reconfigurable hardware and bio-inspired mechanisms. The members of the group have been long-time leaders of well-known projects on the domains of evolvable hardware, neural networks hardware implementation, and artificial learning mechanisms.

Partners

Partner 9 - EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotique (LSRO), Miniature Mobile Robots group (MOBOTS) will provide expertise in the design and control of miniature mobile robots for collective tasks.