Meeting: Developing a Global Inventory of Brain Initiatives

大脑是如此复杂，可能需要全球科学家的共同努力来确定其大量功能背后的机制和操作特性。“发展全球大脑计划清单”研讨会旨在推动关于协调全球大脑计划的讨论。它的重点是制定一份国际大脑计划清单，该清单将以可访问的方式收集和报告有关每个区域计划的关键信息。尽管有重要的独立努力来编目发展中的神经技术和获取和管理数据的方法，但这些努力没有得到协调，也没有相互有效地沟通。因此，有必要实施一份“人才计划”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计划开发的资源的效率。国际大脑清单将有助于扩大对大脑计划工具、数据和其他资源的可及性，并增加美国调查人员与其他国家调查人员的合作。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输入，并向更广泛的神经科学界传达库存目标，从而对库存开发提供重要信息。此外，该研讨会还有助于建立全球大脑计划之间的关系。通过努力为国际大脑清单提供信息，该项目的最终目标包括：(1)增加所有国家对大脑计划工作和产品的可及性，以及(2)促进跨国合作。此外，通过与公众交流这些努力，研讨会提高了对全球大脑研究工作和美国与其他大脑计划之间互动的认识。本次研讨会有三个具体目标：1。考虑国际大脑计划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；2. 建议传播清单信息的方法和其他机制，鼓励在国际智力倡议中使用和交流；和3。建议从神经科学社区接收反馈和评估清单有效性的方法。研讨会的主要成果是一份出版物，它将总结讨论并阐明小组的观点。S对上述全球库存的关键方面的观点：库存内容、投入和结构、传播和评估。该出版物还将概述让科学界参与这项工作的步骤。讲习班的第二个成果是提出向公众宣传盘存工作的战略。研讨会的另一个目标是加强许多国家、政府机构和基金会的神经科学家和大脑计划领导人之间的对话和关系，以加速我们对大脑功能的理解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.