From 2006 to 2008, I coordinated the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems: euCognition.

The network was funded by the European Commission and funding for this project was renewed in 2009, with a new name - EUCogII - but with the same web address: www.euCognition.eu. It was funded for a third and final time in 2012 as EUCogIII, expanding its brief to include interaction and robotics as well as cognitive systems. Funding ceased in 2015 and it became the European Association for Cognitive Systems. The network has over 950 members drawn from a great variety of backgrounds, including computer science, neuroscience, psychology, artifical life, robotics, and philosophy.

The theme of the Second EUCogII members conference, 29 January 2009, was "Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents". I presented one of the keynote talks on the topic "Cognitive Development and the iCub Humanoid Robot". An abstract and a video of the talk are available on-line.

euCognition was founded on the success of the much smaller and more focussed European Research Network for Cognitive Computer Vision Systems - ECVision - which I coordinated from 2002 to 2005.

The original ECVision and euCognition websites contain some useful research and teaching resources. To access them, click on either of the logos below (the appearance of these websites is dated but much of the material is still valid and of interest).