At the beginning when we started building the Federation, in the
framework of the
current policy, the State's hand was forced by the financial backers who said: «there needs to be civilian representation and approval of the
programmes if you want us to fund them.»
The EU budget has provided more than $ 1.9 billion for brain research since the start of the
current EU
framework programme for research, FP7 (2007 - 2013).