Our founding universities have signed a concordat formalizing their partnership on Jan 24th 2020, officially starting the NeurotechEU. Image is our first “family photo”. From left to right: Prof. Chas Bountra (vice-chancellor for innovation, Oxford University), Prof. Daniel Wigboldus (president, Radboud University), Prof. Juan José Ruiz Martínez (rector, Miguel Hernandez University), Prof. László Csernoch (vice-rector, Debrecen University), Prof. Anca Buzoianu (rector, UMF Cluj-Napoca), Prof. Mehmet Özkan (rector, Boğaziçi university), Prof. Michael Hoch (rector, Bonn University), Prof. Anders Gustafsson (acting vice president, Karolinska Institutet). Background: Select members of the NeurotechEU Alliance, Members of the governance board, WP leaders, WP team members, faculty deans, institute chairs, department heads, students, and staff members