EC ‘confident’ in human brain project

The European Commission responded on the 18 July 2014 to criticism of its billion-euro Human Brain Project (HBP) , declaring confidence that objections would be satisfied.

On the 7 July 2014, several members of the European neuroscience community had expressed their concern with the course of the HBP, in an open letter sent to the European Commission.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The Human Brain Project just got bigger http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-the-human-brain-project-just-got-bigger/

Neurofuture.eu: Open letter, 07.07.14: Open message to the European Commission concerning the Human Brain Project http://neurofuture.eu/

European Commission: Press Release, 18.07.14: No single roadmap for understanding the human brain https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/blog/no-single-roadmap-understanding-human-brain

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