The RobotDoc Collegium
The RobotDoC Collegium is a multi-national doctoral training network for the interdisciplinary training on developmental cognitive robotics. The RobotDoc Fellows will develop advanced expertise of domain-specific robotics research skills and of complementary transferrable skills for careers in academia and industry. They will acquire hands-on experience through experiments with various humanoid robot platforms (e.g. iCub, Nao, Ecce, Asimo).
Marie Curie Actions ProgrammeThe Collegium will employ 16 Marie Curie Fellows, of which 13 are PhD students (Early Career Researchers) and 3 postdocs (Experienced Researcher). It also has over 30 Associate Fellows.
Research training is centred on a series of training milestones such as two summer schools, international conferences and interdisciplinary research methods workshops. Fellows are also directly involved and closely supervised for research in novel projects on embodied cognition, motivational and affective mechanisms, neuro-robotics modelling, developmental psychology, sensorimotor learning, social interaction and higher-order cognitive modelling. An individual coaching programme supports each Fellow’s training progress as well as professional and personal enhancement through individualised skill development plans.
Media Coverage
Francesca's speech at the Innovation Convention 2011 Brussels, SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Master Class (05 December 2011).
Next Training Events
The next training event will be the Entrepeneurship Workshop, to be held in Genoa in March 2012.
Two future training events in 2012-13 will be open to external students and researchers: the PhD Conference on Development of Cognition (Lausanne, 10-12 September 2012, co-located with ICANN-2009), and the Spring School on Cognitive Bootstrapping (Spring 2013). Watch this space for a call for Travel Bursary Applications.
Review Meeting in Barcelona
7 September 2011, Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona
The mid-term review meeting was held in Barcelona. The staff and fellows received very positive feedback from the Review panel, including the following quotation from the Project Officer: "This is an excellent group, and you can be proud of it".
