Large-Scale Research Projects

We were/are active partners in several large-scale research projects. Here you find a brief summary of selected projects.

iBehave

Large-Scale Research Projects


The newly established research network "iBehave" is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for a period of 4 years with project funds amounting to 19.6 million €. The network includes several groups at Jülich Research Centre (IAS-6, INM-3, IBI-3, ....) and focuses on investigating survival-related behaviors and their underlying neuronal mechanisms. A special feature of the network is the close networking of experimental, theoretical, and clinical work at several locations in NRW. In addition to Jülich Research Centre, the University of Bonn, RWTH Aachen, the University of Cologne, and the DZNE and Caesar Institute in Bonn are involved in iBehave. From IAS-6 the principal investigators involved in this network are Sonja Grün and Michael Denker.


NeuroSys – Neuromorphic hardware for autonomous artificial intelligence systems

Large-Scale Research Projects


NeuroSys is part of the future cluster initiative “Clusters4Future” of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The initiative is composed of three three-year implementation phases, with the first implementation phase starting on 01.01.2022. NeuroSys has the vision of establishing the Aachen region as the world’s leading location for research, development, and innovation in neuromorphic hardware for artificial intelligence (AI). RWTH Aachen University, as the nucleus, works closely with the Jülich Research Centre and the NRW Landesinstitut AMO GmbH and several start-ups and regional companies are an integral part of the cluster. IAS-6 is part of Project C (Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design) which brings together expertise from neuroscience, automated system design, and hardware-related circuit design to apply neuromorphic principles to the development of novel algorithms and novel device characteristics. Markus Diesmann and Johanna Senk are the principal investigators involved in the project.


EBRAINS

Large-Scale Research Projects

EBRAINS is a collaborative European Research Infrastructure designed to advance and accelerate progress in neuroscience and brain health. This innovative infrastructure is an ecosystem where researchers, clinicians and experts from various disciplines converge to explore and analyze brain complexity – from molecular and cellular levels to the functioning of the entire organ. The Research Infrastructure (RI) emerged from the Human Brain Project (HBP, see below), an H2020 FET Flagship Project that was funded for 10 years (2013-2023). With the EBRAINS 2.0 project (2024-2026), the achievements of the HBP are being continued with the overarching goal to foster a deeper understanding of brain structure and function with dedicated and mature software tools, to facilitate the development of more effective treatments, new drugs, diagnostics and preventive measures for neuro-psychiatric disorders. The project aims to create a new standard for brain atlases from the micro- to the macro-scale, link foundational multi-level data and connectomes in the healthy and pathological brain with atlases and models, create digital twins through modelling and simulation as well as unique, excellent, and preferred services for FAIR neuroscience data.
The IAS-6 has been involved in the development and establishment of the RI from the very beginning in 2013 and continues its activities for and with the RI as part of the EBRAINS 2.0 project and EBRAINS National Node Germany.


SPP 2041 Computational Connectomics

Large-Scale Research Projects


Sacha van Albada, together with Timo Dickscheid (INM-1) and Claus Hilgetag (UMC Hamburg-Eppendorf), received a DFG grant in the priority program "Computational Connectomics" to develop a model of human visual cortex. In the project, layer- and area-specific neuron densities in human cortex will be measured and used to help predict cortical connectivity, and the resulting model will be simulated to investigate relationships between structure and dynamics.
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JARA - Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance

Large-Scale Research Projects

In JARA, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University pursue excellent basic research in combination with application-oriented research.
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RTG MultiSenses - MultiScale

Large-Scale Research Projects

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group ‚MultiSenses – MultiScales: Novel approaches to decipher neural processing in multisensory integration‘ (RTG2416) funded by the DFG aims at gaining a conceptual understanding of the mechanisms that govern crossmodal integration of sensory information at multiple scales.
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Previous Collaborative Large-Scale Research Activities

SPP1665 - Resolving Resolving and manipulating neuronal networks in the mammalian brain - from correlative to causal analysis

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) funds the Priority Program 1665 (Schwerpunktprogramm) “Resolving and manipulating neuronal networks in the mammalian brain – from correlative to causal analysis”. The program runs for an initial period of three years, a second funding period (another three years) started in 2017.
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SMHB - Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain
BrainScaleS - Brain-inspired multiscale computation in neuromorphic hybrid systems
German - Japanese Collaborations in Computational Neuroscience
KFO219 - Basal Ganglia - Cortex Loops: Mechanisms of Pathological Interactions and Their Therapeutic Modulation
Advanced Computing Architectures (ACA) - towards multi-scale natural-density Neuromorphic Computing
Human Brain Project

Last Modified: 15.07.2024