

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is building a research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine, and computing. It is one of four FET (Future and Emerging Technology) Flagships, the largest scientific projects ever funded by the European Union.
The 10-year Project began in 2013 and directly employs some 500 scientists at more than 100 universities, teaching hospitals, and research centres across Europe.
Six ICT research Platforms form the heart of the HBP infrastructure:
The HBP also undertakes targeted research and theoretical studies, and explores brain structure and function in humans, rodents and other species. In addition, the Project studies the ethical and societal implications of HBP’s work.
The HBP has the following main objectives:
Next steps
In its final phase, the HBP will build and operate EBRAINS, in support of the HBP vision of harnessing multiple disciplines and computing, while advancing science, ICT and medicine, to the benefit of society. EBRAINS is a research e-infrastructure for brain research that will help the research community to analyse, share, integrate, and model data about the brain with the aim of better understanding the functioning of the human brain and its diseases. Find out more: ebrains.eu
Project Coordination Office at Campus Biotech
The Project Coordination Office, headed by the Executive Director, manages and coordinates the HBP Core Project and acts as the intermediary between the HBP Consortium and the European Commission.