IBRO — International Brain Research Organization
Overview
IBRO is the global association of neuroscience societies, founded in 1961 to promote and support neuroscience research, education, and training worldwide. Its membership spans over 100 international, national, and regional neuroscience organisations, coordinated through five regional committees covering Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, North America, and Europe, together representing approximately 95,000 neuroscientists globally as of 2024. IBRO funds its activities primarily through revenue from its two journals, Neuroscience and the open-access IBRO Neuroscience Reports, and deploys those funds through training grants, fellowships, travel awards, and capacity-building programmes. It hosts the IBRO World Congress every four years and has an explicit mandate to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the global neuroscience community, with particular emphasis on researchers in lower-income countries. IBRO co-funds the African Brain Data Science (ABDS) Academy with the Kavli Foundation as part of its Africa capacity-building programme.
Connections
- Partners with: ABDN
- Partners with: ALBA Network
Resources
- https://ibro.org
- https://ibro.org/about
- https://ibro.org/journals/neuroscience/ (Neuroscience, IBRO flagship journal)
- https://ibro.org/journals/ibro-neuroscience-reports/ (IBRO Neuroscience Reports, open-access companion journal)
- https://www.kavlifoundation.org/news/expanding-mri-research-in-africa (Kavli Foundation, June 2024, confirms IBRO co-funding of the ABDS Academy)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brain_Research_Organization