The Blue Brain Project belongs to EPFL and is entirely funded internally; it's about 2% of EPFL's budget. I'm not qualified to speak of the science behind the

The Blue Brain Project belongs to EPFL and is entirely funded internally; it's about 2% of EPFL's budget. I'm not qualified to speak of the science behind the HBP but I know that a few labs in China and in the US (like the Allen institute) see some value in it. It's a big engineering project and maybe the end goal and result isn't what's important here. Pretty much like CERN.