The JD-ICE PhD course aims to develop and enhance students' knowledge and skills in order to train a new generation of professionals capable of exploiting (and further enhancing) cutting-edge ICT technologies to design and implement - in teams multidisciplinary work - innovative solutions relating to cognitive and interactive environments. In particular, the research topics of this curriculum with Queen Mary University of London aim to improve students' scientific excellence in the field of interactive cognitive environment technologies, which are key to the development of effective and sustainable products and services and are potentially capable of transforming a wide variety of economic sectors. The topics covered will include, among others: cognitive systems, multimedia signal processing, intelligent decision support systems, pattern recognition, data fusion, machine learning, serious games and virtual worlds, virtual simulation environments, pervasive business intelligence, interoperable and adaptive telecommunications, multimedia wireless networks, sensor networks, the design of intelligent environments. The program aims to open up to doctoral students a broad panorama of technologies, methodologies and applications for the design, implementation and deployment of intelligent environments that provide useful and usable services in different application domains (such as, for example, health, transport systems , security, entertainment, etc.) enhancing the social pervasiveness of innovative tools. These objectives are achieved through close collaboration between high-level European university research groups in the field of pervasive intelligence and cognition and leading industries in the field of ICT technology development.