International Multidisciplinary Neuroscience Research Centre (IMNRC asbl/vzw)

The IMNRC is a private academic research institution - legally recognised in the Belgian Monitor since 2002 and based in Flanders, Belgium - that has acquired a strong international academic and political reputation in the field of Capacity Building (CB). CB can be understood in different ways. The meaning we ascribe to New CB is developing the human being’s potential to deal with the increasing complexities of an ever changing world. The IMNRC's scope of activities is quite vast: the New Capacity Building Programme (its Flagship Programme), the Education of Tomorrow, the Governance of Tomorrow, the Smart Cities of Tomorrow, the Science of Tomorrow, the Medicine of Tomorrow, its Interface Diagnostics Cabinet (IDC) that launches CWINs for complex cases, a very powerful investigation tool. The IMNRC is atypical and very avant-garde because it functions thanks to a vast international consortium, a worldwide web (or network) of collaborators. The IMNRC administrative and residential HQ located in Tervuren, near Brussels doesn't have any laboratories because it doesn't need them. Indeed, all the laboratory, medical, scientific and technological facilities are provided by the international consortium in their respective countries and locations. Instructions come from the IMNRC that monitors progress from afar. This kind of futuristic organisation would have not been possible without internet. The IMNRC offers three academic degrees: Bachelor in Interfaces, Master in Interfaces, Doctorate in Interfaces. The DI is equivalent to the combined medicine-science-arts doctoral degrees. The DI is experimental. Its full version shall only be possible at the International Interface Research Centre (IIRC). Please see: http://www.imnrc.org/IMNRC/brochure.htm and http://www.imnrc.org/IMNRC/imnrc.htm