# Possibility of adding public dataset - BCI	Competition IV

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**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/possibility-of-adding-public-dataset-bci-competition-iv/2096 "2020-03-03T15:05:02Z")\
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Hello MNE-Python developers,  
I am writing to inquire about the possibility of adding the publicly  
available dataset from the "BCI Competition IV  
\<[http://www.bbci.de/competition/iv/&gt;&quot](http://www.bbci.de/competition/iv/&gt;&quot); to the mne.datasets  
\<[Page Redirection](https://mne.tools/stable/python_reference.html#module-mne.datasets&gt;%5C).

Best regards,  
Ramiro Gatti  
PhD Fellow  
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Hello!

The files are only available after submitting the form, therefore I'm not sure if we can include a downloader in MNE. Furthermore, the website doesn't specify the license of the data files, so I'd be careful.

However, many BCI data sets (including some from the BCI Competition IV) are available at [http://bnci-horizon-2020.eu/database/data-sets](http://bnci-horizon-2020.eu/database/data-sets), licensed under CC. I think a downloader for these data sets would be very useful. Do you have time to contribute a PR?

Clemens

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/possibility-of-adding-public-dataset-bci-competition-iv/2096/3 "2020-03-03T20:06:47Z")

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hi,

I would also suggest to look at [https://github.com/NeuroTechX/moabb](https://github.com/NeuroTechX/moabb)  
which has fetchers for many open BCI datasets.

Alex