Revolutionising Brain Research
The EBRAINS Science Vision
The EBRAINS Science Vision is to revolutionise how neuroscience research is performed, changing the research culture from fragmented individual laboratory efforts to integrated platform research, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the brain and improving brain health and technology.
We strive to be the premier digital infrastructure for neuroscience research by providing unique brain data of highest quality across multiple species, integrated with cutting-edge analysis, validation and curation tools and multiscale brain models that facilitate seamless interoperation and knowledge exchange.
Researchers can build customised science workflows across the entire scientific value chain and generate new neuroscience knowledge that would be otherwise inaccessible, paving the way for innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in neuroscience. Our ultimate goal is to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, generate new insights into the brain, and translate these insights into tangible benefits for society.
Roadmap for Digital Neuroscience
Neuroscience has entered a new, digital phase with entirely new opportunities for brain research, medicine and technology. A position paper by over 100 authors published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience identifies the key points for further developments in digital neuroscience.
Interoperability at the Core
The unique benefit of the integrated nature of the EBRAINS infrastructure lies in our effort to make extensive brain data, tools and models interoperable. EBRAINS makes it possible to combine digital research tools into multi-scale research workflows. EBRAINS empowers researchers to bridge data across scales and integrate insights from across disciplines to address questions that are longstanding challenges in neuroscience. As these integrated efforts advance, collaboration across deeply ingrained borders of different sub-disciplines and often siloed communities is becoming ever more seamless – EBRAINS connects scales, efforts and people.
The EBRAINS Science and Technology Committee (ESTC)
The EBRAINS Science and Technology Committee (ESTC) is tasked with advising the Board of Directors on the strategic agenda of EBRAINS as well as providing its expertise to all governing bodies of EBRAINS on relevant matters. The ESTC will collaborate closely with the EBRAINS Management Board during strategy development and implementation to ensure coherence of the strategy, its implementation of the provision and operation of the research infrastructure.
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