From May 7-9, 2018, the Human Brain Project (HBP) held a meeting of representatives from all of its research areas in Alpbach, Austria, to discuss the alignment of HBP science and technology with respect to developments outside the project. Speakers presented their own research progress and gave overviews of their respective fields.

The meeting provided a valuable assessment of the chances, competitiveness and uniqueness of the HBP with regards to current developments like the strong increase in AI research and application during the last years, as well as in view of other brain initiatives, developments in brain imaging, data science, medicine, computing and other relevant fields. The talks and the discussions served as guidance for the way forward to maximize research success and impact.

Absolutely inspiring internal @HumanBrainProj Science & Technology alignment meeting in beautiful Alpbach 🇦🇹 The HBP is an infrastructure building project for #BrainResearch #Mission #H2020 #HorizonEurope and driving vertical integration of Neuroscience with #EuroHPC pic.twitter.com/rQN1A1IjTM

— Chris Ebell (@HBPExecDir) May 9, 2018

Great opening by Rainer Goebel from @MaastrichtU of the human brain project‘s science and infrastructure board meeting (SIB) on science alignment in the beautiful settings of Alpbach. #DeepLearning as key to the multi-level organization of brain function. @HumanBrainProj pic.twitter.com/WCnEZOARUZ

— Thomas Lippert (@Tomtherhymer) May 7, 2018

Jan Bjaalie talks about “Big data for neuroscience and medicine” at the @HumanBrainProj Science Meeting pic.twitter.com/BPrZ2WiBZG

— HBP HPAC Platform (@HBPHighPerfComp) May 8, 2018

A lot of learning during 3 days of @HumanBrainProj meeting in inspiring 'village of thinkers' Alpbach pic.twitter.com/PThIVgckcW

— HBP Ethics Support (@HBP_Ethics_Sppt) May 9, 2018

After a first theme « understanding the brain » and a focus on consiousness, today is dedicated to « the brain + #AI » #SIBalignmentmeeting @HumanBrainProj @HBPNeuromorphic @HBPHighPerfComp ... pic.twitter.com/3wxmGFMQuw

— HBP MedicalPlatform (@HBPmedical) May 8, 2018