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Almost 700 researchers from 27 countries met this week in the picturesque city of Marseille, France, to discuss the current state and the future of digital brain research at the final Human Brain Project Summit.

During the 2023 Human Brain Project Summit in Marseille, focus areas and driving principles of the Human Brain Project were reflected in the works that young scientists have brought to the poster session.

The Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project (ICEI), a “sister project” of the HBP that is building an initial version of the Fenix Infrastructure under the umbrella of the HBP, has launched the whitepaper “Fenix e-infrastructure service provisioning – lessons learned”. Addressed to e-infrastructure service providers or similar initiatives, it summarises current Fenix services, statistics on Fenix user communities and includes their feedback and lessons learned.

On 27 March 2023 with the beginning of spring, right before the HBP Summit, HBP partners together with the HBP Training Support team invited all HBP participant to join them at the Satellite Events Day at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, France.

During the final HBP Summit in Marseille, researchers Pieter Roelfsema and Philippe Ryvlin received this year's Innovation Awards for their work on a visual brain prosthesis for the blind, and a platform for Medical Patient Data. The innovation evaluation committee emphasised: “The innovations we selected all had high societal impact, and this impact could not have come about if the work was not of very high quality.”

The Human Brain Project (HBP) has published a new booklet to provide both an overview and a deeper look into some of the project’s latest results.

Over the last decade, HBP has been a driving force behind brain research at the intersection with computing and technology. In the project, researchers across Europe collaborate in a highly systematic approach to advance our understanding of the most complex system known to man – the human brain.

The new booklet includes in-depth feature articles, interviews with leading researchers and spotlight on latest research and innovation. A PDF version can be downloaded here.

After much anticipation, the Final Summit of the Human Brain Project started at Palais du Pharo in Marseille. The Summit was opened in the great Plenary Hall of the venue with a warm welcome from HBP Scientific Research Director Prof. Katrin Amunts.

At the end of the first day of the HBP Summit, three winners of the Best Abstract Awards were announced: Maria Sacha from CNRS - University Paris-Saclay, Julia Thönnißen from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Sophia Pieschnik from the University of Oslo. The winners were selected out of 173 submitted abstracts based on scientific quality by the Abstract Evaluation Committee.