The scientific journal Nature reported on March 18, 2014 that the European Union's Human Brain Project and the United States' BRAIN Initiative will launch a collaboration later this year. Details are forthcoming but it is anticipated that all of the BRAIN Initiative's government partners - NSF, NIH and DARPA - will be involved. Israel's brain initiative is also expected to participate. The goal of this cooperation is to coordinate research programs and avoid duplication of effort, wherever possible. 

The Nature article can be read in its entirety here.

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