EBRAINS and eBRAIN-Health Showcase Europe's Vision for Trusted Digital Brain Health at TEF-Health Event in Berlin

On 9 June 2026, eBRAIN-Health and EBRAINS joined policymakers, researchers, innovators, healthcare professionals and industry representatives at the joint TEF-Health – eBRAIN-Health public event "Transforming Healthcare with Trusted AI, Robotics and Data" in Berlin. The event brought together about 200 participants from across Europe to discuss how research infrastructures, testing facilities and innovation ecosystems can accelerate the development and deployment of trustworthy AI solutions in healthcare.

Opening the event, Petra Ritter, Charité/BIH and TEF-Health/eBRAIN-Health Coordinator, highlighted that ”By providing European trusted infrastructures, interoperable services and secure environments for sensitive health data, we are creating the foundations that allow scientific excellence, innovation and responsible digital health transformation to advance together.

Philippe Vernier, Joint Chief Executive Officer of EBRAINS, introduced the role of the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure as Europe's digital infrastructure for brain research. Building on the legacy of the Human Brain Project (HBP), EBRAINS provides researchers and innovators with access to advanced neuroscience data, brain atlases, modelling and simulation tools, high-performance computing resources and secure environments for sensitive health data. Reflecting on the broader significance of EBRAINS and eBRAIN-Health initiatives stated: "EBRAINS and eBRAIN-Health demonstrate that Europe does not need to choose between data sharing and privacy protection’’.

The event also highlighted that Germany plays a major role and hosts one of EBRAINS National Nodes that deliver the shared infrastructure. As Joint CEO of EBRAINS, Katrin Amunts from Forschungszentrum Jülich, has previously emphasised "EBRAINS Germany brings in strengths ranging from supercomputing and simulation, to brain atlases, neuromorphics, AI and more."

The event also marked the launch of the new eBRAIN-Health White Paper, "From Brain Science to Trusted Digital Health Services: Positioning Europe's Brain Modelling Platform for Sustainable Impact." The publication presents the project's strategic vision, scientific achievements and policy recommendations, while highlighting how neuroscience research can be translated into trusted digital health services.

The White Paper showcases the project's two core pillars. The first is the Health Data Cloud, a secure and federated ecosystem that enables the integration, management and analysis of sensitive health data in compliance with European regulations and FAIR principles. The second pillar is a portfolio of innovative solutions that bring research closer to clinical and market-ready applications

Among the innovations highlighted are The Virtual Brain, a simulation platform for personalised brain modelling; BrainSymph, a platform supporting the early detection and risk assessment of cognitive decline; Eodyne's neurorehabilitation platform; SmartMe&You-TELEMAIA for remote monitoring and assessment of cognitive health and dementia risk factors in people at risk of or living with neurodegenerative diseases; and advanced tools supporting data harmonisation, knowledge graph enrichment and AI-enabled biomedical research.

The publication further explores how eBRAIN-Health contributes to major European policy priorities, including the European Health Data Space, the AI Act, the European Research Area and future European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs).

It also highlights the strategic complementarities between EBRAINS, eBRAIN-Health and TEF-Health inititatives in supporting the development, validation and market uptake of trustworthy AI technologies for healthcare.

The Berlin event demonstrated the growing importance of collaboration between research infrastructures, policymakers, healthcare providers, industry and testing facilities to ensure that digital brain health advances can be transformed into practical solutions benefiting patients and society. 

About the eBRAIN-Health Consortium

The eBRAIN-Health consortium brings together leading organisations from neuroscience, medicine, data science and digital health across Europe:

CHARITÉ – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany / EBRAINS, Belgium / Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany / Stichting Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands / Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain / OSLO Universitetssykehus HF, Norway / tp21 GMBH, Germany / Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV, Germany / INDOC RESEARCH EUROPE gGmbH, Germany / Universitaet Wien, Austria / Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain / EODYNE Systems SL, Spain / ATHENA – Research and Innovation Center, Greece / University of Oslo, Norway / Stichting Amsterdam UMC / Universita degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza, Italy / Alzheimer Europe, Luxembourg / Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France / Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland / The University Court of the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom / Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland