NeurotechEU is an alliance of nine leading European universities (Radboud Universiteit, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Karolinska Institutet, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie “Iuliu Hațieganu” din Cluj-Napoca, Université de Lille, Reykjavik University. Medical Univeristy of Innsbruck) and over 250 partners from industry, academia and civil society that have set themselves the mission of building an innovative, trans-European network of excellence for brain research and technologies. This network of excellence offers an ideal platform for delivering multidisciplinary, intersectoral and personalized training for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students in Europe while also promoting lifelong learning in all areas of society. This is designed to help increase the international competitiveness of European education, research, economy and society. NeurotechEU has set itself the goal of being both the backbone of efforts to tackle the challenges of neuroscience and a center for pioneering technologies in 2040.