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MidsummerBrains Webinar Series reaches international audience
This year, the MidsummerBrains lecture series of the SMARTSTART program is offered as a webinar series. Since it was shifted into virtual space, many young scientists take the opportunity to participate from different international locations. Until mid-July there will be two more exciting lectures on 'computational neuroscience from my point of view'.

Bernstein Center Berlin on its way to becoming a permanent institution
The Bernstein Center Berlin has been successfully evaluated by Charité, TU Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. This entails the extension of the cooperation agreement between the three institutions reconfirming the institutionalisation of the BCCN Berlin.

Chairwoman of the Bernstein Network appointed to the German Ethics Council
Professor Susanne Schreiber, Chairwoman of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience and Professor of Theoretical Neurophysiology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, has been newly appointed to the German Ethics Council.

"We could reach well below 1000 new infections/ d by end of May"
Germany is looking for a way out of the Covid-19 epidemic. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association, and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft have jointly published a statement outlining various paths through the corona epidemic based on model calculations. Viola Priesemann, who heads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, is co-author of this position paper.

Tatjana Tchumatchenko appointed Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe
We are pleased to announce that Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, was recently appointed as a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.

An app for COVID-19 studies
CoroNotes uses anonymous health data for a better understanding of the novel coronavirus

Allen Institute announces new phase of neuroscience research
Cell Types and MindScope research programs to enter new stages of resource generation and discovery; another neuroscience division to launch in 2022
State of South Tyrol supports Valentin Braitenberg Award
Through an agreement with the Bernstein Network, the province of South Tyrol supports this scientific award. The state government gave the go-ahead today.

Novel cutting-edge AI research Centre in Berlin is funded with millions of euros by the German Government and the State of Berlin.
The Berlin Institute for the Foundation of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) bundles AI expertise in the German capital merging the Berlin Centre for Machine Learning (BZML) and the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC).
ERC Grants for Susanne Schreiber and Martin Rolfs in Berlin
The European Research Council supports three excellent projects at the Humboldt-Universität, two of which are headed by members of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience.