US and EU brain research projects to collaborate
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.027776
Nature : In 2012, the European Union announced the Human Brain Project (HBP), a €1 billion ($1.3 billion) program to create a computational model of the human brain. In 2013, the US government announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative , a $1 billion partnership between government agencies and private research groups to develop tools for imaging and controlling brain activity. Now, representatives of each project have announced that the two efforts will be collaborating. A workshop later this year, after BRAIN awards its first grants, will begin to provide details of how the collaboration will work. The goal is to avoid duplication of effort and to let researchers in the two projects more effectively share their work.
