The new edition of the EU’s Innovation Radar highlights 45 Innovations stemming from the Human Brain Project (HBP). Running from 2013 to 2023, the HBP was a FET Flagship Project of the European Commission, with one of its key outcomes being the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure. EBRAINS supports or makes available many of the innovations, and a number of them have made the step to commercial offerings as spinoffs.
A new paper analysing the achievements of the Human Brain Project (HBP) Education Programme has been published in the journal Neuroinformatics, authored by members of the programme, student ambassadors and other researchers. The Education Programme, which concluded in September last year, as part of the HBP flagship project, was designed to equip the next generation of brain researchers with the skills needed to navigate the rapidly evolving and highly interconnected fields of neuroscience, medicine, and information technology.
Prof. Yves Fregnac was an initial member of the Human Brain Project in the Subproject on Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience. He was an outstanding scientist, deep thinker and critical mind, who constantly challenged us to focus on the fundamentals and influenced our efforts with the progressive development of the HBP.
The newly published “Human Brain Project 10 years assessment” provides an analysis of the HBP’s progress and impact during its decade-long runtime.
Neuroscience has entered a new, digital phase. The combination of brain research with supercomputing in large-scale, multi-disciplinary research collaborations has enabled an innovative approach to deciphering the brain, using powerful scientific technologies and data ressources. These developments open up new possibilities for brain research, medicine and technology. A position paper by over 100 authors, now published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience, summarises the current status and identifies the key points for further developments in digital neuroscience.
From 21-24 November, the final Human Brain Project (HBP) review was held in Brussels during which members of the HBP consortium presented the final project results to a panel of external scientific experts. The scope of this review was the final phase of the HBP, which ended in September 2023. Results were presented in detailed documentation and presentations and followed by extensive Q&As.
On September 30th, the Human Brain Project (HBP) formally completes its 10-year runtime as an EU-funded FET Flagship. The project has pioneered digital neuroscience, a new approach to studying the brain based on multidisciplinary collaborations and high-performance computing. The HBP will continue to have an impact on neuroscience for many years through the EBRAINS research infrastructure and a new way of collaborative work in the field.
Exciting new industrial collaborations, spin-off companies, patents and (ongoing) clinical trials have emerged from or are built upon breakthroughs of the Human Brain Project. With the end of the project in sight, we look back on some highlights of the innovations that the HBP enabled or contributed to.
The Fenix infrastructure, set up by Europe’s leading supercomputing centres, is paving the way for scientific advances in brain research.
The HBP as a European Science Collaboration, collaborating with researchers around the globe, is convinced of the high relevance of equal opportunities, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) as the cornerstones of innovation and progress in science.
