Human Brain Project (HBP)

Overview

The Human Brain Project was a 10-year EU FET Flagship initiative (2013–2023), one of the first two Future and Emerging Technologies Flagships funded by the European Union. Its mission was to build a collaborative European research infrastructure for neuroscience, medicine, and computing. Its primary and permanent legacy is EBRAINS, the open neuroscience research infrastructure it created, which carries forward the brain atlases, neuromorphic computing platforms, simulation and HPC services, and the openMINDS metadata framework that originated within the project. The HBP also made BIDS and NWB adoption a requirement for its data and contributed to the development of UBERON for cross-species brain region annotation.

Connections

• relatedTo: EBRAINS (primary legacy infrastructure created by the HBP)
• relatedTo: openMINDS (development of openMINDS initiated within the HBP; now an independent community framework)
• relatedTo: UBERON (HBP contributed significantly to brain region annotation using UBERON terms)

Resources

• https://www.humanbrainproject.eu
• https://ebrains.eu (EBRAINS — HBP’s primary legacy)
• https://julich-brain-atlas.fz-juelich.de (Julich Brain Atlas)
• https://openminds.ebrains.eu (openMINDS metadata framework)