Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project (HBP) was a EU scientific research project that ran for ten years from 2013 to 2023, with a total budget of €1 billion. Using high-performance exascale supercomputers it built infrastructure that allowed researchers to advance knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine. Its successor was the European Brain Research Infrastructures (EBRAINS) project. The Project, which started on 1 October 2013, was a European Commission Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship. The HBP was coordinated by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and was largely funded by the European Union. The project coordination office was in Geneva, Switzerland. Peer-reviewed research finds that the public discussion forum (the Human Brain Project forum) was actively utilized and showed resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The HBP forum has been most actively utilized and useful for solving questions related to programming issues and questions close to HBP core areas.