From May 11 – 13, 2026, around 200 people gathered at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden, for The European University of Brain and Technology (NeurotechEU) event, the Neuroinnovation Summit & NeurotechEU General Assembly. This event was held under the motto, “Next Generation – Skills, Talent, Careers & Innovation,” and its attendees were comprised of students and staff from the NeurotechEU alliance. Members of the delegation from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) included Vice Rector for Internationalization and Cooperation, Vicente Micol; the NeurotechEU leader at the UMH and Director of the UMH-CSIC Institute of Neurosciences, Juana Gallar; in addition to the Director of the Service of International Relations and Cooperation, Inmaculada Blaya.

Other UMH attendees at the General Assembly consisted of the Director of International Promotion and Director of the Center for Translational Research in Physiotherapy, María del Carmen Lillo; and Deputy Vice Rector for Institutional Position & Rankings, José Manuel Blanes. UMH faculty involved in the creation of teaching content for NeurotechEU and present in Stockholm included professor of physiology, Víctor Meseguer; professor of medicine, Ángel C. Pérez Sempere; and investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences, Silvia de Santis. Moreover, NeurotechEU project manager, María José Such; experts in quality management, Virginia García and Sonia Martín; expert in new learning models, Anna Mura; head of NeurotechEU communication at the UMH, Júlia Santacreu; and representatives of UMH students at the NeurotechEU Student Council, Bárbara Corral, Desirée Gracia, and Jorge Maldonado, also took part.

The General Assembly concluded with a meeting of the NeurotechEU Student Council, during which members discussed strategies to ensure student participation throughout the second phase of the alliance. Following the meeting, the students attended a social event organized by and for them, in their capacity as representatives of the various universities in the consortium.

In parallel with the NeurotechEU Board of Rectors Meeting and General Assembly, Karolinska Institutet also hosted the annual Neuroinnovation Summit. This summit addressed integrating neurotechnology into healthcare and commercialization pathways for research innovations. Representing the UMH was Silvia de Santis, an investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences—a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the UMH. At the summit, she presented the paper, “From Diffusion MRI to Virtual Histology: Tracking Neuronal and Glial Changes in Ageing and Alzheimer’s.”

NeurotechEU is a European university co-funded by the European Commission that is working to create a higher education and research hub focused on neurotechnology, with the aim of providing solutions to health issues related to neuroscience and mental health through affordable technologies. Besides the UMH, the NeurotechEU alliance includes eight other universities. They include Radboud University, the Netherlands; Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; University of Bonn, Germany; Boğaziçi University, Türkiye; Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din Cluj-Napoca, Romania; University of Lille, France; University of Reykjavik, Iceland; and the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.