@juliaberezutskaya.bsky.social won the Santiago WISE award! The award celebrates female entrepreneurs in medtech 🎉

Julias UCANACT aims to help people regain personal autonomy by accessing communication and digital device control with their brain activity.

👉 santiagofonds.nl/blog/2025/04...

**Celebrating the Fernando Lopes da Silva Program** 🎉

The Exchange Program bridges Portugal 🇵🇹 and the Netherlands 🇳🇱

UtrechtBCI is proud to host its first Portuguese student, Tomás Caldeira, a Biomedical Engineering student from Instituto Superior Técnico!

👉 lopesdasilva-program.eu

The OTTER study is out! 😊

We explore the needs and interest in Brain-Computer Interfaces for children and young adults with cerebral palsy based on the experiences and opinions of their parents and healthcare professionals.

👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The #UtrechtBCI team of the UMC Utrecht wants to learn from people with a high #spinalcordinjury and their caregivers. We are interested in the experiences of using assisive technology for computer control.
Access our survey directly via neuroprothese.nl/gebruikerswe....

Internship Opportunity: Biomechanical Profiling of Hand Gestures

🧠🖖 Are you a Master's student with a biomechanics background? Join our team! Analyze motion capture data for BCIs and dive into fMRI analysis at OTH Regensburg (and possibly UMC Utrecht)

Interested?
📩 internships@utrecht-bci.nl

Check out our latest publication! Anouck Schippers found that it's harder to decode speech when speakers could not hear themselves speak, stressing that we should validate speech BCI efficacy with end users. Congrats Anouck!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🚸
It summarizes the first roadmap 🛣️ towards implanted BCI's for youth with complex needs, based on input from transdisciplinary engagement sessions, an international summit and workshops across the BCI community 🧠

If you happen to be in New York, come and see @mjvansteensel.bsky.social's presentation at the New York BCI symposium!

When? October 3-4, 2025
Where? New York Academy of Medicine

Read more here: www.nybci.com/event/2886b6...

@juliaberezutskaya.bsky.social won the UREKA mega challenge 2025 with her ALPHABET team! Congrats Julia!🥳
Read more here: utrecht-bci.nl/alphabet-win...

❗Mark your agendas! Come and see @juliaberezutskaya.bsky.social's ALPHABET team in the final of the #UrekaMegaChallenge.

When? October 1st, 13.00 - 16.00
Where? UMC Utrecht, Groene collegezaal en Foyer 1

🎥 Learn more about their BCI solution here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AJL...

Welcome to the our Bluesky page!

Our first highlight to share is the International BCI Society Meeting in Banff, Canada 🏔️

Our group presented 12 posters, held 8 workshops, 1 oral presentation, and our Annike Bekius received the poster award! 🏆