The FACETS project is a European Project funded by the [[European Union]] gathering scientists from different fields related to [[neuroscience]] ([[neurophysiology]], [[computational neuroscience]], neural hardware) aiming at advancing our knowledge on the computational properties of the brain. FACETS stands for "Fast Analog Computing with Emerging Transient States".
TheTaking advantage of a concerted action of neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers and physicists, the FACETS project aims to address the unsolved question of how the brain computes with a concerted action of neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers and physicists. It combines a substantial fraction of the European groups working in the field into a consortium of 13 groups from Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. About 80 scientists join their efforts over a period of 4 years, starting in September 2005. A project of this dimension has rarely been carried out in the context of brain-science related work in Europe, in particular with such a strong interdisciplinary component.
