Adriatica Summer School on August 31-September 04, 2026 in Pescara, Italy

Adriatica 2026 invites applications to its summer school by the beach, dedicated to advancing the study of brain–body interactions and their role in perception, cognition, consciousness, social behaviour, and wellbeing.

The 2026 edition focuses on the coupling between neural activity and physiological rhythms, and how these interactions contribute to self-awareness, behaviour, emotion, and health. The programme brings together neuroscience, psychology, neurophysiology, computational science, and physics in a structured interdisciplinary setting for scientific training and exchange.

Participants will engage with research on interoception, bodily self-consciousness, peripersonal space, heart–brain and respiration–brain coupling, social synchrony, predictive processing, and brain–body dynamics across wakefulness, sleep, and altered states of consciousness. Particular attention is given to the role of bodily signals in shaping cognition, agency, social interaction, and mental health, including in clinical populations.

The programme includes lectures by internationally recognized speakers, student oral presentations, poster sessions, and hands-on methodological workshops on physiological networks and multiscale brain–body dynamics. It is designed to foster in-depth discussion, methodological training, and direct interaction between early-career researchers and senior scientists.

Set in a coastal location, Adriatica also includes structured social and networking activities, including excursions along the Trabocchi Coast and a group dinner, aimed at fostering informal scientific exchange and community building.