Informed consent is a formal agreement that a patient sign to give permission for a medical procedure (such as surgery). In an online debate guest speakers explained the complexity, solutions and trends in relation to informed consent and provided their recommendations for best practise.

During a half day workshop HBP Ethic Rapporteurs, Ethic and Society (SP12) and the HBP Ethic Advisory Board met to reflect on issues related to potential military and defense applications of HBP research (dual use). The goal was to provide concrete concerns and recommendations to the HBP Opinion on dual use.

As any other EU project, HBP is regulated to prevent research and technological development to be used for military or defense purposes (‘dual use’). Nevertheless there might be dual use interests in the project. In a two day seminar, HBP researchers and external experts met to initiate a dialogue on recognition and management of dual use issues in the HBP.

Six citizen meetings were organized in order to provide the public with an opportunity to reflect on issues related to privacy and data protection in research projects, and to provide their ideas and opinions to the researchers and managers of the HBP. The meetings took place in Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Sweden.

In an online debate on future computing and robotics external experts and HBP researchers were invited to explore the ethical, social and technical issues related to future advances in ICT, neuromorphic computing and robotics.

Researchers from the Human Brain Project (HBP) met with scientists from the neuroscience community to initiate an on-going dialogue on the data and theory for advancing the future neuroscience and the HBP.

During an online debate HBP researchers and experts on dual use ethics, policy and applications discussed dual use issues arising from technological development and discoveries in the Human Brain Project.

On the 8th and 9th October 2014, The Danish Board of Technology Foundation and King's College London co-organized an expert seminar on multi-level data federation in the Human Brain Project.

The Human Brain Project (HBP) uses anonymised data from hospitals throughout Europe to discover new disease signatures for brain diseases. In an online debate experts from a variety of fields, presented their views on the social and ethical challenges associated with disease signatures and personalized medicine.