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The Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project  is an ambitious 10-year research initiative, and part of the EU flagship program. The HBP is developing an innovative ICT infrastructure (the HBP Joint Platform), that will help neuroscientists and clinical researchers integrate data and knowledge about the brain across all levels of its spatial and temporal organisation. Using detailed digital representations, reconstructions, and simulations it aims to give tools to thousands of researchers to advance and accelerate our understanding of the functioning of the human brain and its diseases.

The HBP Education Programme

The HBP Education Programme is an interdisciplinary teaching programme offering innovative training formats for young researchers working in and between the fields of neuroscience, ICT, and medicine. The programme especially targets advanced master students, PhD students and early post-doctoral researchers. It currently comprises various formats:

• HBP Curriculum: A combination of distance learning courses and complementary face-to-face workshops


• HBP Schools: Advanced trainings that provide in-depth lectures and tutorials


• HBP Student Conferences: A platform for collaboration and scientific exchange between young scientists


• Young Researchers Events: Opportunity to learn about and use the Information & Communication Technology Infrastructure offered and developed by the HBP


• HBP Lab Visits: Chance to gain practical experience and learn new methods at HBP partner labs


• HBP Education Programme E-Library: Educational video material publicly available

HBP Education Workshops 

HBP Education Workshops are short teaching formats of two to three days of length. The workshop themes are related to a specific online course on an advanced basic level considering the audience comes from different scientific backgrounds and different levels of education (Master, PhD, early post-docs). Proposals can be submitted for the following themes:

• ICT/Computing for non-specialists


• Neuroscience/Neurobiology for non-specialists


• Brain medicine for non-specialists


• Research, Ethics and Societal Impact


• Intellectual Property Rights, Translation and Exploitation of Research

A workshop covering each theme will be held once a year which sums up to five workshops in 2018. The dates as well as the venue for the 2018 workshops are already fixed: 4-6 July 2018, Berlin, prior to the FENS Forum.

Through this Call for Expressions of Interest (CEoI), the HBP Education Programme will identify Scientific Directors (from within and outside the HBP) who are taking over the scientific lead of HBP Education Workshops. In total, five proposals will be selected for July 2018.

The application deadline is the 12th October 2017 at 17:00h (GMT+1).

More information in the next link: Scientific lead for HBP Education Workshop 2018