On 20 March, EBRAINS and the International Brain Initiative brought together leading experts and the public for an interactive webinar, “Mind Your Mind,” as part of #BrainAwarenessWeek2026.
The event explored the growing impact of neurotechnology – tools that can record and analyse brain activity – and highlighted both its transformative potential and the ethical challenges it raises.
Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfdvLGbUuk
From 11–13 March 2026, the inaugural EBRAINS Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research brought together an enthusiastic and diverse group of early-career researchers to engage in cutting-edge brain science discussions and networking.
We're looking forward to the Mind Your Mind webinar tomorrow at 16:30 CET!
Join us for an interactive conversation with experts to discuss neurotechnologies, brain data protection, and why “Privacy by Design” must guide innovation.
Register for the webinar here: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/events/2026/mind-your-mind-webinar
As part of this year’s #BrainAwarenessWeek, EBRAINS is participating in a range of events that highlight the latest developments in neuroscience and foster dialogue with the public.
Read more: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2026/ebrains-participates-in-brain-awareness-week-2026
It’s great to see the Digital Brain Tumour Atlas, a resource openly available on EBRAINS, highlighted in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine as a dataset that is especially well-suited for histopathology-related AI and machine learning research.
"The data, available via EBRAINS under ethical non-commercial guidelines, is invaluable for machine learning, diagnostic research, and teaching" says the article.
Read the article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10278-026-01899-y
Histopathology plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of many diseases, especially cancers, for which the correct classification of tissue samples significantly influences treatments for patients. The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital pathology offers opportunities for improving diagnostic process speed, accuracy, and scalability. The availability of well-structured, annotated histopathology datasets is essential to this advancement. This study provides an extensive overview of publicly available datasets tailored specifically for histopathology-related AI and machine learning research. Our review yielded 151 datasets across tissue types and cancers (gastrointestinal, brain glioma, lung adenocarcinoma, and others). We also categorize the datasets in terms of the number of patients, organs, staining, magnification, scanner, size, collected method, year, and resolution. We analyze multiple key and popular datasets, including but not limited to CAMELYON, TUPAC, MIDOG, MoNuSeg, and BreakHis. We believe this review will help computational histopathology research by providing a comprehensive understanding of the available datasets, their structures, and their specific applications. Researchers can more effectively choose relevant datasets for creating AI models suited to certain tasks, such as cancer diagnosis, treatment response prediction, and tissue classification, by documenting and evaluating these resources. Within the field, standardizing images across these datasets can facilitate collaborations between the data-generating experts, pathologists, and AI model developers, as well as help in reproducibility, benchmark testing, and evaluation. Furthermore, by combining histopathological, radiological, and genomic data, for example, this evaluation will help identify gaps in the availability of current datasets. Another benefit is that it will help identify the need for additional diversified datasets that incorporate multimodal data. Closing these gaps will be essential to creating AI models that are applicable to different types of institutions and patient groups.
Interested in learning more? Make sure to join the 'Mind Your Mind' webinar this Friday at 16:30 CET!
The webinar will feature an interactive conversation with experts to discuss neurotechnologies, brain data protection, and why “Privacy by Design” must guide innovation.
Register here: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/events/2026/mind-your-mind-webinar
We invite you to read the newly published 'Mind Your Mind' guide to protecting your brain data!
The guide - which was developed by the EBRAINS Ethics and Society Committee, in collaboration with the International Brain Initiative, on the occasion of #BrainAwarenessWeek2026 - was created to empower the public with knowledge about neurodata: what they are, why they matter, and how they can and should be protected.
Read the new guide: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2026/new-mind-your-mind-guide-to-protecting-brain-data-published-for-brain
🔔 TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to contribute to the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap! Don't miss this opportunity to take part in defining the next decade of neuroscience.
We seek visionary yet concrete proposals that define science that cannot be done elsewhere — projects, capabilities, or collaborations uniquely enabled by EBRAINS’ data, models, compute, and federated ecosystem.
Submit your proposal before 23:59 CET today! We look forward to your contributions.
Submit here: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2025/call-for-contributions-to-the-ebrains-10-year-roadmap-2026-2036
Registration and submission of contributions for the NEST Conference 2026 are now open!
The annual NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. We particularly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!
Submit your contribution before the deadline on 10 April: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/events/2026/nest-conference-2026
ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT to contribute to the EBRAINS 10-Year Roadmap! Don't miss this opportunity to take part in defining the next decade of neuroscience.
We seek visionary yet concrete proposals that define science that cannot be done elsewhere — projects, capabilities, or collaborations uniquely enabled by EBRAINS’ data, models, compute, and federated ecosystem.
Submit your proposal before 23:59 CET on 15 March! We look forward to your contributions.
Submit here: https://ebrains.eu/news-and-events/2025/call-for-contributions-to-the-ebrains-10-year-roadmap-2026-2036
