A number of research centers in Europe, USA and Japan are now following the model established by the ICNC, including the Institute for Neuroinformatics (ETH/Univ.

ICNC faculty co-founded, co-direct and teach at the yearly “EC advanced course in Computational Neuroscience” (Crete/Greece, Trieste/Italy and Obidos/ Portugal).

The flow of 32 visitors (mostly at their Ph.D. and early post-doc training period) during the first 15 months of the EU grant under the 5th framework is a demonstration for the attractiveness of the ICNC facility to European users.

Program in: "Brain Research Computation and Information Processing" is supported by a generous donation from Alice and Jack Ormut.

Students who successfully complete the program are granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Brain Sciences: Computation and Information Processing.