The world wide web has become a dominant medium of publication in research community. The web's potential educational role is equally promising and already most of educational institutions in developed world use the web as the main if not the exclusive medium to deliver educational material to their students. However, outside this usually closed world the promise of the web is compromised by several factors:

a) The jungle-like structure of web: trying to find a site with desirable content or characteristics using presently available search mechanisms identifies an increasing number of candidate sites but rarely comes up with quick answers. The situation is similar when it comes to the neuroscience resources.

b) The development of web-based educational material is expensive. There is a wide variety of types of material available reflecting a variety of educational "concepts" – something that makes offerings difficult to structure.

c) In spite of several large collections of web-based neuroscience resources, none of these sites provide an evaluation of material.

By establishing IBRO-Edu - IBRO hopes to provide quality resources for neuroscience education (and research) to its members under the supervision of an Editorial Board.

The short-term goal of the project is to identify, evaluate and provide organized access to educational materials in neuroscience already available on the web. In a later phase, IBRO- Edu will add to this resource by soliciting and creating new material possibly an on-line textbook of neuroscience.