HQ Function

Served as the central operational and scientific coordination hub for the HBP, facilitating collaboration among over 150 partner institutions across Europe.

Notable Features:

Campus Biotech is a modern life sciences research center, offering advanced facilities and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, which was vital for the HBP's ambitious goals.

Work Culture:

Characterized by a highly collaborative, international, and research-intensive environment. It focused on pushing the boundaries of neuroscience through interdisciplinary teamwork, big data, and computational approaches.

HQ Significance:

The Geneva location placed the HBP's coordination in a globally recognized hub for scientific research, innovation, and international organizations, facilitating widespread collaboration.

Values Reflected in HQ: The HBP and its coordination reflected values of scientific excellence, open collaboration, innovation, and the pursuit of transformative knowledge for the benefit of society.

Location:

The Human Brain Project was a pan-European initiative, with over 150 partner institutions from 19 European countries. It fostered extensive collaboration in brain research, data sharing, development of the EBRAINS research infrastructure, high-performance computing, brain simulation, medical informatics, and neuromorphic computing. While primarily European, its impact and collaborations extended globally, aiming to create a worldwide resource for brain science.

Street Address:

Campus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9

City:

Geneva

State/Province:

Geneva

Country:

Switzerland