Athena RC has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member
13-07-2023
The membership went into effect on 1 January 2023. It gives Athena RC the opportunity to co-design future iterations of EBRAINS’ cutting-edge tools and services. These state-of-the-art capabilities – which cover data sharing, atlasing, modelling, simulation, high-performance computing, and neurorobotics – aim to help European researchers to address major challenges in brain health, benefiting from insights into data science, brain organization, and artificial intelligence gathered from the EU Flagship Human Brain Project.
Prof. Ioannis Emiris, President of the Athena Research Center, notes: “Athena RC is excited to join EBRAINS. Athena RC integration into EBRAINS brings valuable expertise in infrastructures and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). By leveraging its experience, Athena RC will contribute to the technical coordination, architecture design, and provision of integral core platform services within the EBRAINS initiative. At the same time, our even closer collaboration with the EBRAINS community will allow Athena RC to gain insights and experience while tackling new challenges”.
"We're delighted to welcome Athena Research & Innovation Center as an associate member at EBRAINS," says EBRAINS CEO Paweł Świeboda. "The center brings with it a wealth of experience in the development and operation of research infrastructures. During the Human Brain Project, Athena RC played an essential role in the software architecture development for EBRAINS and was also a key contributor to the development of core platform services and the Medical Informatics Platform".
About EBRAINS
EBRAINS provides digital tools and services which can be used to address challenges in brain research and brain-inspired technology development. Brain atlases, for example, provide spatial reference systems for neuroscience, giving the ability to navigate, characterise and analyse information on the basis of anatomical location. © EBRAINS
EBRAINS is a new digital research infrastructure (RI), created by the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP), to foster brain-related research and to help translate the latest scientific discoveries into innovation in medicine and industry, for the benefit of patients and society.
It draws on cutting-edge neuroscience and offers an extensive range of brain data sets, atlases, modelling and simulation tools, easy access to high-performance computing resources and to robotics and neuromorphic platforms.
All academic researchers have open access to EBRAINS’ state-of-the art services. Industry researchers are also very welcome to use the platform under specific agreements. For more information about EBRAINS, please contact us at info@ebrains.eu or visit https://ebrains.eu/
EBRAINS is listed on the ESFRI roadmap
About the Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is the largest brain science project in Europe and stands among the biggest research projects ever funded by the European Union. It is one of the three FET Flagship Projects of the EU. At the interface of neuroscience and information technology, the HBP investigates the brain and its diseases with the help of highly advanced methods from computing, neuroinformatics and artificial intelligence and drives innovation in fields like brain-inspired computing and neurorobotics.