The project will develop technology to restore vision of blind people through electrical stimulation of the brain. (Image: Chen & Roelfsema, KNAW)
The project will develop technology to restore vision of blind people through electrical stimulation of the brain. (Image: Chen & Roelfsema, KNAW) In a project under Horizon 2020, researchers from seven European organizations will examine how the vision of visually impaired people can be restored using electrical stimulation of the brain. If a project receives funding from the European Union, it must involve excellent science in innovative and promising interdisciplinary research fields that provide new and relevant ideas for industry and society. The international Neural Active Visual Prosthetics for Restoring Function project meets all these criteria and has been awarded an EU research grant totaling 4 million euros over four years. The project will kick off on 1 September 2020 and is being coordinated by Prof. Shih-Chii Liu at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich. Working in interdisciplinary teams from seven European universities and institutions with complementary expertise in computational, systems and clinical neuroscience, materials engineering, microsystems design and deep learning, the project will develop technology to restore vision of blind people through electrical stimulation of the brain. Close interdisciplinary cooperation.
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