EBRAINS is a new digital research infrastructure, a legacy of the EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP), that gathers an extensive range of data and tools for brain-related research. It draws on cutting-edge neuroscience, big data, computing, robotics and related technologies to help translate the latest scientific discoveries into innovation in medicine and industry, for the benefit of patients and society. EBRAINS’ ambition is to provide the scientific community with an open, state-of-the-art capability that fosters collaborative brain science, opens the way to ground-breaking discovery, and aims to secure Europe’s leading position in the dynamically growing field of multidisciplinary brain research and its exploitation. EBRAINS was officially launched in 2019. Two years later, in 2021, EBRAINS was included in the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). Since 2022, EBRAINS is also a member of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). After the conclusion of the HBP in 2023, EBRAINS will now complete the transition into a sustainable infrastructure. At the current phase, EBRAINS aims to create a new standard for brain atlases from the micro- to the macro-scale, link foundational multi-level data and connectomes in the healthy and pathological brain with atlases and models, create digital twins through modelling and simulation, and provide unique, excellent, and preferred services for FAIR neuroscience data. EBRAINS offers researchers access to an extensive array of curated multi-modal data sets, a comprehensive multi-level human brain atlas, cutting-edge tools for data analysis, brain modelling and simulation, high-performance computing resources, and neurorobotics platforms. These integrative services empower neuroscientists to overcome barriers in handling the immense complexity and heterogeneity of brain data. The main recipients of EBRAINS' services are researchers, clinicians, and experts from various disciplines. To ensure that their needs are met, EBRAINS aims to foster an inclusive "EBRAINS Community" that maximises the research infrastructure's use by gathering users, collaborators, experts and stakeholders in a common environment. EBRAINS is structured around a central hub, the EBRAINS AISBL, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. This hub coordinates a pan-European network of distributed facilities and services. It currently has 11 National Nodes located in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. EBRAINS aims to expand its reach by integrating additional national nodes across Europe to create a truly pan-European research infrastructure and to integrate "best-in-class" resources, creating synergies and building upon scientific developments nationally.