Academic Program

BCILattice is built by and for BCI researchers. We believe world-class neuroscience tools should be accessible to academic labs at every budget level. The BCINexus Academic Program provides verified students and non-profit researchers with significant discounts and additional collaboration opportunities.

Pricing & Discount

Annual billing provides an additional 2-month discount on top of the academic discount.

Who is Eligible

• Enrolled students at accredited universities (undergraduate, masters, PhD)
• Postdoctoral researchers at universities or non-profit research institutes
• Faculty members at universities or academic medical centres
• Staff at non-profit research organisations (charitable registration required)
• Government-funded research labs (public research institutes)

How to Apply

1. Go to bcinexus.io/academic-discount
2. Sign in or create a BCINexus account using your institutional or educational email address
3. Fill in your details on the application form:
   • Full name
   • Institution / university name
   • Department or faculty
   • Your role, student, postdoc, faculty member, or research staff
   • Expected graduation or contract end date (students and postdocs)
4. Submit the form, no photo ID, no document scans, and no letters required
5. If your email domain is recognised, the 20% discount is applied instantly. Otherwise it is reviewed within 2 business days.

Academic status is re-verified annually. You'll receive an email reminder 30 days before expiry.

Department & Multi-Seat Licensing

For departments or institutes with multiple researchers, a department-wide or institution-wide licence is more cost-effective than individual subscriptions.

Email academic@bcinexus.io with your institution name, department, and expected number of users for a custom quote.

What Academics Get

On the Researcher plan (academic) you get everything in the standard Researcher plan plus:

• Access to the BCINexus community pipeline library (340+ pipelines)
• Publish your own pipelines to the community library under CC BY 4.0
• Pipeline citation tracking, see how many researchers have imported your work
• Priority queue for community pipeline review
• Reduced-cost upgrade path to Lab and Institution plans

On the Lab plan (academic):

• Everything above plus team workspace for up to 5 researchers
• SHA-256 dataset integrity verification for reproducibility
• Shared experiment comparisons, compare results across lab members
• Role-based access (PI as Owner, students as Members)

Teaching & Course Use

BCILattice can be used in university courses covering BCI, neuroscience, signal processing, or machine learning. Special arrangements for teaching use:

• Free course access, students in a registered BCILattice course can access the Researcher plan free for the duration of the course (semester)
• Classroom licences, request bulk student accounts for a lab class, managed by the instructor
• Course materials, sample datasets, exercise templates, and lab manual provided to registered instructors
• LMS integration, BCILattice session export files can be submitted as assignment deliverables

Register your course at academic@bcinexus.io, include course name, institution, student count, and semester dates.

Research Collaboration

The BCINexus research collaboration programme connects labs and enables joint research:

• Cross-institution workspaces, invite collaborators from other universities to a shared team workspace
• Dataset sharing, share preprocessed datasets (not raw recordings) with collaborators via BCINexus cloud storage
• Joint pipeline development, co-author and co-publish community pipelines
• Pre-publication pipeline embargo, publish a pipeline with restricted access before paper submission, then release publicly on acceptance
• Featured research, high-impact work from the community is featured on the BCINexus blog and newsletter

Partner Institutions

Current BCILattice partner institutions with active research deployments:

Interested in becoming a partner institution? Email academic@bcinexus.io.

Contact Academic Team