Meeting: Developing a Global Inventory of Brain Initiatives

大脑是如此复杂，它可能需要协调地球仪的科学家的努力，以确定其大量功能背后的机制和操作特性。关于编制全球脑倡议清单的讲习班旨在推动关于协调地球仪各地脑倡议的讨论。 它的重点是编制一份国际人才倡议清单，以便于查阅的方式收集和报告关于每项区域倡议的关键信息。 尽管有大量独立的努力来对开发中的神经技术和数据采集和管理方法进行编目，但这些努力并不协调，并且彼此之间没有有效的沟通。 因此，有必要实施一个"人才倡议"的实时清单，以促进需要多国参与的大型项目的协调，并减少重复，提高通过全球各种人才倡议开发的资源的效率。 国际大脑清单将有助于扩大大脑倡议工具、数据和其他资源的可及性，并增加美国研究人员与其他国家研究人员的合作。 该研讨会通过提供来自美国和国际神经科学家的不同群体的投入，并将清单目标传达给更广泛的神经科学界，为清单开发提供了重要信息。 此外，讲习班还有助于在全球脑倡议之间建立关系。 通过努力为国际脑资源清单提供信息，该项目的最终目标包括：（1）增加所有国家对脑倡议工作和产品的可及性，（2）促进多国合作。 此外，通过向公众宣传这些努力，研讨会提高了对全球脑研究工作以及美国和其他脑倡议之间互动的认识。研讨会有三个具体目标：1. 2.考虑国际脑倡议清单应包括哪些内容，并就内容和结构提出建议，重点是对科学界最有用的内容;提出传播清单信息的方法和其他机制，鼓励国际人才倡议的使用和交流; 3.建议接收神经科学界反馈和评估清单有效性的方法。 讲习班的主要成果是一份出版物，其中将总结讨论情况并阐明小组的观点。秘书处对上述全球清单关键方面的看法：清单内容、投入和结构、传播和评价。 该出版物还将概述让科学界参与这项工作的步骤。 研讨会的第二个成果是提出向公众宣传清单工作的战略。 该研讨会的另一个目标及其参与者的周围合作工作是加强许多国家，政府机构和基金会的神经科学家和大脑倡议领导人之间的对话和关系，以加速我们对大脑功能的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The brain is so complex that it will likely require the coordination of the efforts of scientists around the globe to determine the mechanisms and operational properties underlying its vast array of functions. The workshop on Developing a Global Inventory of Brain Initiatives aims to advance discussions on coordinating Brain Initiatives around the globe. It focuses on the development of an International Brain Initiative Inventory that will collect and report key information about each regional initiative in an accessible fashion. Although there are significant independent efforts to catalog the developing neurotechnologies and approaches for acquisition and management of data, these efforts are not coordinated and do not communicate effectively with one another. As such, there is a need for the implementation of a live inventory of Brain Initiatives, to promote the coordination of large-scale projects that require multinational involvement and to reduce duplication and increase efficiency of resources developed through various brain initiatives globally. The International Brain Inventory will serve to broaden accessibility to Brain Initiative tools, data, and other resources, as well as increase collaboration by US investigators with investigators from other countries. This workshop critically informs inventory development by providing input from a diverse group of US and international neuroscientists and communicating inventory goals to the broader neuroscience community. In addition, the workshop serves to build relationships among global Brain Initiatives. By working to inform the International Brain Inventory, ultimate goals of this project include to: (1) increase accessibility of all countries to Brain Initiatives work and products, and (2) promote multinational collaborations. Further, by communicating these efforts to the public, the workshop enhances awareness of global brain research efforts and interactions between the US and other Brain Initiatives.There are three specific aims of the workshop: 1. To consider what content to include in an International Brain Initiative Inventory, and advise on content and structure, with a focus on what would be most useful to the scientific community; 2. To suggest approaches for dissemination of inventory information and other mechanisms that encourage use and communication across International Brain Initiatives; and 3. To recommend approaches for receiving feedback from the neuroscience community and evaluating the effectiveness of the inventory. The primary product of the workshop is a publication that will summarize the discussion and articulates the group?s perspective on key aspects of a global inventory as outlined above: inventory content, input and structure, dissemination, and evaluation. The publication will also outline steps for engaging the scientific community in this work. A secondary product of the workshop is to propose strategies for communicating inventory efforts to the public. An additional goal of the workshop and surrounding collaborative work of its participants is the strengthening of dialog and relationships between neuroscientists and Brain Initiative leaders across many countries, governmental agencies, and foundations to accelerate our understanding of brain functionThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.