The Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a European Community Flagship Project of Information and Computing Technologies (ICT) within the framework of the Future Emerging Technologies (FET) vision. It is coordinated from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
The project engages over 100 research groups in and outside Europe. It is organized around three complementary research areas:
- Future Neuroscience
- Future Medicine and
- Future Computing
Aims of the Human Brain Project
The HBP aims to achieve a fuller and more integrated understanding of the brain and translate it into medicine and technology. The project has involved the development of supercomputing technologies to federate and manage data describing the brain and its diseases, to integrate it in computer models and simulations of the brain, to identify patterns and organizational principles apparent when the data is gathered, and to identify gaps to be filled by new experiments. One of its goals is the creation and operation of an ICT infrastructure for neuroscience and brain related research in medicine and computing recently launched under the name of EBRAINS.
The HBP has the following main objectives:
- Create and operate a European scientific Research Infrastructure for brain research, cognitive neuroscience, and other brain-inspired sciences
- Gather, organize, and disseminate data describing the brain and its diseases
- Simulate the brain
- Build multi-scale scaffold theory and models for the brain
- Develop brain-inspired computing, data analytics and robotics
- Ensure that the HBP's work is undertaken responsibly and that it benefits society.
CRB in the Human Brain Project
CRB is part of HBP through professor Kathinka Evers who has led the philosophical research within the HBP and been a member of the HBP's Science and Infrastructure Board until June 2020.
Contacts
- Kathinka Evers, Professor of Philosophy
- Arleen Salles, Senior researcher, Deputy leader of the RRI workpackage
- Michele Farisco, Postdoc
- Manuel Guerrero, Researcher
- Karl Sallin, MD, PhD student
- Josepine Fernow, Communications manager
- Anna Holm, Communications officer
- Pär Segerdahl, Associate Professor & Editor of the Ethics Blog
PhD projects in the HBP
Neuroetik och neurofilosofi
När vi försöker förstå hur hjärnan fungerar dyker det också upp etiska, sociala och filosofiska frågor.
Neuroethics & RRI
Conceptual analysis
Answers to questions about transferring brain knowledge to medicine, law, philosophy, and health and social policy.
Hur det är att inte vara vid medvetande
Hur är det att vara medvetslös? Karl Sallin studerar apatiska barn.
Neuroetik och medvetandefilosofi
Vår forskning kring neuroetik och neurofilosofi är mångvetenskaplig. Vi närmar oss frågorna från teoretiska, filosofiska, sociala, bio-politiska och kliniska perspektiv. Forskningen sker i nära samarbete med neurovetenskapen så att vi kan förstå de etiska och filosofiska frågorna som forskarna behöver hantera. I den här rapporten hittar du alla våra publikationer på området med abstracts. Rapporten uppdaterades i november 2016.
