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BrainHack Lucca 2025
2 - 5 December 2025
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About BraianHack Lucca
Open science and open data
The purpose of Brainhack is to bridge the data science and neuroscience research communities to advance the progress of brain science research. This collaborative workshop brings researchers from across the globe and different disciplines to work together on innovative projects related to neuroscience combining elements of Hackathons, with a variety of educational activities. Year after year, global Brainhack events have brought together researchers to participate in open collaboration and regional Brainhack events keep the momentum going throughout the year.
Read the BH code of conduct
BrainHack Global
The world-wide organization that helps with the organization of local events
The BrainHack Lucca celebrates inclusivity, promotes cooperation over competition, and upholds the ethical principles of international humanitarian law.
As such, BrainHack Lucca firmly rejects all ongoing wars and acts of genocide.
Program
IMPORTANT NOTICE: we recorded a short video on how to write an efficient project for the BrainHack.
You can find the link to the video in the heading of the Projects section
You can find the complete BrainHack Lucca program here.
The first day is dedicated to teaching, with training sessions on different open science tools.
The following days will be focused on collaborative working (hacking sessions).
This year we will have two parallel sessions on day one morning! Choose wisely!
Program in progress!
Registration and breakfast
Badges at IMT school and coffee at 'La Pecora Nera'
Introduction to BrainHack
Ruggero Basanisi (IMT, Lucca)
Introduction to BrainHack Lucca 2025
BASIC
ADVANCED
Training: Python basics
Fabio Pinelli (IMT, Lucca)
Brief Introduction to Python
Representational Similarity Analysis HackLab
Chiara Battaglini (IUSS, Pavia)
Hacking the brain’s inner map: from stimuli to individual patterns
Training: Going on with Python
Fabio Pinelli (IMT, Lucca)
Start programming with Python
Inferring correlation and causation
Miguel Ibanez Berganza
Inferring correlations, partial correlations, and higher-order interactions.
Training: Git & GitHub
Matteo Lionello (IMT, Lucca)
How and why using Version Control Systems
TBD
TBD
TBD
Lunch Break
INTERMEDIATE
Hosted in Cappella Guinigi
FAIR enough
Vittorio Iacovella (UniTrento, Trento)
Fine-tuning your research outputs to foster reproducibility.
Coffee Break
Coffee Break will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
From pre-registration to word-wide collaborative projects
Marta Bortoletto (IMT, Lucca)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Open Science* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Projects pitches - Projects leaders
Short presentations of the available projects
Social Night Event - All the Brainhackers
The social night event will be hosted in IMT school
Breakfast
Breakfast will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Hacking session - Working groups
Collective work on projects!
Lunch Break
Hacking session - Working groups
Collective work on projects!
Coffee Break
Coffee Break will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Hacking session - Working groups
Collective work on projects!
TBD
TBD
TBD
Breakfast
Breakfast will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Hacking session - Working groups
Collective work on projects!
Lunch Break
Hacking session - Group Work
Collective work on projects!
Coffee Break
Coffee Break will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Hacking session - Group Work
Collective work on projects!
Distributional semantics & NLP (TBD)
Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro (IUSS, Pavia)
TBD
Breakfast
Breakfast will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Hacking session - Group Work
Are you starting to getting tired? Don't give up!
Lunch Break
Hacking session - Group Work
The last straight line!
Coffee Break
Coffee Break will be served at 'La Pecora Nera'
Slides preparation - Group Work
Finish the figures and prepare a few slides
BrainHack Lucca Wrapup - All the BrainHackers
Presentation of the results of BrainHack Lucca projects
Some numbers from the past editions
Teaching hours
Hacking hours
Projects
Participants
Register
Registration is now open!
Registration will be open until 25/11/2025.
Register
Registration is now open.
Participants' checklist
In order to facilitate the participation to first day's training sessions, participants are recommended to follow these few preliminar steps:
Install an IDE (Spyder, PyCharm Community or VisualStudio Code)
Projects
Here you can find all the informations about the proposed projects.
If you want to submit a project you should first register, then follow the link to fill the form through a github issue.
Projects can be anything you'd like to work on during the event with other people (coding, discussing a procedure with coworkers, brainstorming about a new idea), as long as you're ready to minimally organize this!
Click here to watch a short video about "How to write a project for the BrainHack", in which we discuss how a project should be conceived and project leaders' duties.
Projects can be pre-registered and published on the website until 30/11/2025!
After this deadline, it will still be possible to propose a project during the 'project pitches' on day 1.Click to submit a project filling a GitHub issue template!
Team
The BrainHack Lucca organizing committee
Davide Coraci
PhD Student
Giacomo Handjaras
Assistant Professor
Gaia Carlotta Fiamberti
PhD Student
Linda Fiorini
PhD Student
Marco Fioretti
Research Assistant
Matteo Lionello
PhD Student
Monica Betta
Assistant Professor
Riccardo Vella
PhD Student
Ruggero Basanisi
PostDoctoral Fellow
Tommaso Gili
Assistant Professor
Valentina Elce
PostDoctoral FellowQuestions, Services &
Useful Resources
Here you can find useful information about services in Lucca.
1. Do I need programming skills to participate?
The aim of BHL is to create an exchange environment accessible to all participants, allowing to propose projects in which different levels of programming skills are needed. Thus, participating to BHL can demand different levels of programming skills depending on the project that a participant decides to attend, from zero to hero.
2. Which kind of project can I propose as project leader?
All kind of projects are accepted, from zero programming skills projects (e.g.: brainstorming on a peculiar topic or discussing about common proceedings) to fully computational projects (e.g.: programming a toolbox to perform data analysis using a new methodological framework). The only limitation is that they should be brain-themed projects.
3. What do I need to participate BHL?
To participate BHL you just need your laptop and good vibes. The organization team will try to provide all participants with electrical supplies, if your laptop has a short charger cable we advise to bring with you an extension cord in order to reach plugs.
4. Where can I find an accomodation?
Lucca offers tons of possibilities in terms of accomodations with hotels and B&Bs. Accomodations inside the walled city are generally more expensive than accomodations outside or around the walls. In the near future we will try to stipulate an agreement with some structures for hosting participants at lower fares. We will keep you posted on this topic.
5. Where can I eat in Lucca?
BHL provides their participants with two coffee breaks per day, lunch and a buffet for the social event on the first night. However, if you want to discover the typical flavours of Tuscany, here we give you some suggestions for restaurants:
As an alternative, you can easily find around the city lots of spots to eat sandwiches, pizza and stuffed 'focaccia'.6. What can I visit in Lucca?
You can enjoy Lucca just by hanging around the ancient walls or the streets of the walled city.
Moreover it offers some attractions:
Social networks
Here you can find our social media links
Contacts
Any question? Write us a message!
You can find more information about the school and how to reach us following THIS LINK.
Past editions
Visit the past editions of BrainHack Lucca