Specific areas of interest in this scientific field include modelling of behavioral and brain processes, development of neural algorithms and applying neural modelling concepts to problems relevant in many different domains.
Erkki Oja and John G. Taylor are past ENNS presidents and honorary executive board members.
[1] Every year since 1991 ENNS organizes the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN).
This is one of the oldest and best established conferences on the subject, with proceedings published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, see index in DBLP bibliography database.
ENNS also sponsors other students and have given awards and prizes at co-sponsored events (schools, workshops, conferences and competitions).