The DECAD team was awarded a MRSEI ANR grant ("Montage de réseaux scientifiques européens ou internationaux") together with collaborators from Lyon (E Procyk, coordinator of the project), Oxford (M Rushworth) and Mannheim (D Durstewitz) to build a competitive cognitive neuroscience consortium. The aims of the consortium are two-fold: first to organize an international conference to be held in Bordeaux aimed at identifying unresolved issues on the nature and the functions of the prefrontal cortex, and second to propose plans to tackle these issues with the above-mentioned consortium in the context of Horizon 2020 EU calls.