The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) is pleased to announce that it is among six Montreal-area research platforms who have received a Platform Support Grant from the Brain Canada Foundation.

In combination with matching funds from the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health and the Marc and Susie Sievers Computational Neuroscience Initiative, Brain Canada’s substantial 3-year grant recognizes the importance of the CONP’s mission to lower the barriers to the practice of open neuroscience by making data, tools, data governance policy and reproducible publications accessible to everyone.

This funding will help us continue to develop the CONP Portal, expand the “Evidence” open publication platform, and build robust data governance frameworks and toolkits that help the neuroscience community place the sharing of human data on a sound ethical footing.

Brain Canada’s foresight in recognizing the importance of Open Science to the acceleration of scientific discovery and its eventual translation to disease treatments is notable and, in collaboration with our community partners, the CONP is delighted to extend our relationship with Brain Canada and we look forward to the implementation of the many objectives of this Platform Support Grant.