About ARCHES

ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe)is a European network of research groups focusing on hearing science, with the aim to stimulate networking, interaction, and scientific collaboration between researchers in the auditory field.

The following research groups take currently part in ARCHES:

• [BE] Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
  Division of Experimental Otorhinolaryngology
  Department of Neurosciences
  Contact: Astrid van Wieringen, Jan Wouters
  Lab website
• [CH] University Hospital Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)
  Laboratory of Experimental Audiology
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
  Contact: Norbert Dillier
  Lab website
• [DE] Carl von Ossietzky Universität (Oldenburg, Germany)
  + Hörzentrum Oldenburg
  Medical Physics Section
  Institute of Physics
  Contact: Birger Kollmeier
  Lab website
• [DK] Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
  + Centre for Applied Hearing Research
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Contact: Torsten Dau
  Lab website
• [FR] Université Paris Descartes (Paris, France)
  + Ecole Normale Supérieure
  + Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception
  Contact: Christian Lorenzi
  Lab website
• [NL] Academic Medical Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Department of Clinical and Experimental Audiology
  Contact: Wouter Dreschler
  Lab website
• [NL] VU University Medical Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
  Contact: Theo Goverts, Cas Smits
  Lab website
• [NL] University Medical Center (Groningen, The Netherlands)
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology
  Contact: Pim van Dijk, Deniz Baskent
  Lab website
• [UK] Nottingham University (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
  MRC Institute of Hearing Research
  Contact: Michael Akeroyd
  Lab website

Previous ARCHES meetings:

• 2007, Oldenburg
• 2008, Haarlem
• 2009, Nottingham
• 2010, Zurich
• 2011, Leuven
• 2012, Copenhagen
• 2013, Paris
• 2014, Oldenburg
• 2015, Groningen

About ICanHear

ICanHear (Improved Communication through Applied Hearing Research) is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network program which has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 317521.

ICanHear has developed models based on emerging knowledge about higher-level processing within the auditory pathway and exploits that knowledge to develop creative solutions that will improve the performance of hearing instruments.

New signal processing methods were implemented on a unified open signal processing platform and evaluated in terms of user benefits on common evaluation scenarios and data bases.

A distinctive feature of this project is the tight integration of academic and industrial partners. Fellows are trained to use rapid prototyping tools to implement and to test their newly developed solutions. Thus they  become familiar with the various stages of product development and also contribute by providing suggestions for improvement of such tools and future product development platforms.

More information and project examples can be found on the ICanHear website.