The National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS) is considering issuing a series of Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for the NINDS Epilepsy Centers without Walls Program to Promote Collaborative Research in the Epilepsies, a newly envisioned cooperative agreement program that will engage the epilepsy research community in collaborations to solve challenges related to the Epilepsy Research Benchmarks (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/research/epilepsyweb/2007_benchmarks.htm). The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit input that will help guide the development of this new program.