Data Protection Officer in the Human Brain Project: Q&A with Kevin McGillivray

Why does the Human Brain Project (HBP) need a Data Protection Officer and what are the main challenges for this role? Our Questions and Answers series with Ethics Support task leaders continues with Data Protection Officer Kevin McGillivray. Q1: What are the aims of Data Protection Officer (DPO)? A DPO is a professional in the…

Compliance Management in the Human Brain Project: Q&A with William Knight

How does compliance process work in the Human Brain Project and what are the main challenges for compliance management for the next years? We continue our Question & Answer series with Ethics Support task leaders. This time it is William Knight, task leader for Compliance Management.   Q1: What are the aims of Compliance Management?…

Ethics and Neurorobotics workshop

What is neurorobotics and how does it differ from ‘classical robotics’? What are potential future developments in this field? What social and ethical questions might they pose and how do we address them? These were some of the topics discussed at the Ethics and Neurorobotics joint workshop bringing together researchers from the Human Brain Project’s…

Ethics Support @ HBP Open Day and Summit 2018

Last week the Ethics Support team was at the annual Human Brain Project (HBP) Open Day and Summit in Maastricht (Netherlands). This event was the halfway mark for the HBP which was started in October 2013 as a ten-year FET Flagship Project funded by the European Commission.   The Open Day on 15th October brought…