EBRAINS is Europe’s digital infrastructure for brain research and an ESFRI Landmark in Data, Computing and Digital Infrastructure.

It provides advanced tools, expert-curated data, and powerful computing services that integrate neuroscience, AI, and digital technologies to accelerate progress in brain science and medicine. EBRAINS enables multiscale exploration of the brain—from molecular and cellular processes to whole-organ models—supporting research that advances diagnostics, treatments, and prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Within the EOSC Federation, the EOSC Node EBRAINS RI contributes reference brain data, quality-assured software tools, scalable federating capabilities, and trusted research environments, while supporting training, onboarding of third-party services, and cross-disciplinary scientific use cases.

Key objective: To establish a thematic EOSC Node for brain-related and brain-inspired research, providing interoperable access to high-quality data, tools, and services, and contributing federating capabilities, best practices, and cross-disciplinary use cases to the EOSC Federation.

Science areas: Neuroscience, brain research, medicine and health, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing, digital health technologies.

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
STATUS & TIMELINE
CAPABILITIES & ACCESS

Interactions with other EOSC Nodes

How to access the Node

Rules of Participation

Open access for selected datasets and services; controlled access for sensitive data; federated access via EOSC AAI; access follows EBRAINS and provider policies.

Access points

Via home page (https://ebrains.eu)

Node capabilities

Federated services

  • EBRAINS Knowledge Graph
  • EBRAINS service catalogue
  • Trusted Research Environments
  • Federated authentication and access services

Data repositories

  • EBRAINS data repositories
  • Brain atlases
  • Reference datasets

Compute and storage

  • Cloud infrastructure
  • HPC resources
  • Integration with European supercomputing systems

VRE

  • EBRAINS Collaboratory
  • Simulation and modelling environments
  • Workflow and notebook-based research environments

File sync-and-share

Integrated data sharing within EBRAINS platforms

Other

  • Training programmes
  • Software tools
  • Modelling frameworks
  • Onboarding and federation support services
COORDINATION