The prizes are provided by g.tec medical engineering, Cortec, Intheon and IEEE Brain.[2].
Christoph Guger and Dean Krusienski are the chairmen of the Foundation.
For example, the Berlin BCI group has hosted several Data Analysis Competitions.
The recently announced HCI Challenge instead focuses on improving the human-computer interaction within BCIs, such as through more natural and friendly interfaces.
The Gao group at Tsinghua University in Beijing coordinated an online BCI competition at a conference that they hosted in 2010, and hosted a second competition in 2012.