For three years from 2006 to 2008 I coordinated the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems: euCognition, a project funded by the European Commission, Project IST-026408, under Strategic Objective 2.3.2.4: Cognitive Systems.

Funding for this project has recently been renewed. The network now trades under the name of EUCogII and is coordinated by Vincent C. Müller, Amerikaniko Kollegio Anatolia, Greece.

The network has over 600 members drawn from a great variety of backgrounds, including neuroscience, psychology, artifical life, robotics, and philosophy.

The goal of the network is to engender discussion and debate in the scientific community with a view to focussing research efforts, creating new educational resources, and advancing the cause of this emerging discipline.

A key objective of the network is to foster interaction between all the many different scientific sectors involved in this multi-disciplinary area and to help create truly inter-disciplinary perspectives.

Although euCognition is a European-funded project, membership is open to anyone, as long as they are actively involved in cognitive systems research and provided they are willing to contribute to the goals of the network.

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, the slides (3Mb), and a video of the talk are available on-line.