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The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a large scale decade long European research project which aims to simulate the world's first and most exact human brain in a supercomputer. [1][2] The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece for simulation models. The models offer the prospect of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of completely new computing and robotic technologies.

On January 28 2013, the European Commission supported this vision, announcing that it has selected the HBP as one of two '1 billion Euro' projects to be funded through the EU FET Flagship Program. Under its Seventh Research Framework Programme the EU now also tendered for major projects, so-called flagship initiatives, in the field of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET). With the new FET flagships, the EU is looking to promote large-scale, ambitious European research projects with a visionary goal in information and communications technology (ICT) by offering EUR one billion over a period of ten years. [3]

Working together with 86 different European institutions the Human Brain Project is planned to last ten years (2013-2023). The cost is estimated at 1.19 billion euros. The project will also associate some important North American and Japanese partners. The HBP is directed by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and co-directed by Heidelberg University, the University Hospital of Lausanne and the University of Lausanne.

The second goal of the project is to trigger and drive a global, collaborative effort that uses the platforms to address fundamental issues in future neuroscience, future medicine and future computing. A significant and steadily growing proportion of the budget will fund research by groups outside the original HBP Consortium, working on themes of their own choosing. Proposals for projects will be solicited through competitive calls for proposals and evaluated by independent peer review.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Graphene and Human Brain Project win largest research excellence award in history". Europa.eu. 2013-01-28.
  2. ^ "Scientists to build 'human brain': Supercomputer". The Dailymail. 2012-05-15.
  3. ^ "European projects to model human brain, explore graphene win up to €1 B each". The Washington Post. 2013-01-28.
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