Three Ontario Research Teams Receive Funding to Develop Open-Access Training Resources
January 12, 2026
The Ontario Brain Institute's Centre for Analytics and Compute Ontario partnership funds development of digital training materials to enhance research capacity across the province.
Three collaborative research teams receive $70,000 in combined funding to develop digital training materials for Ontario researchers and students, the Ontario Brain Institute announced today.
The funding, distributed through OBI's Centre for Analytics in partnership with Compute Ontario, will support the creation of open-access resources focused on research data management and advanced computing skills.
McMaster University, SickKids Research Institute, and University of Windsor will lead the initiatives, which were selected through a competitive call for proposals issued in September. Selection criteria included alignment with regional and national research priorities, project feasibility, and potential impact on the research community.
All training materials developed through these projects will be openly licensed to ensure broad accessibility across Ontario's research ecosystem.
Selected Projects
- The McMaster University-led team, collaborating with the University of Toronto, University of Victoria, University of Waterloo, and Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository, will develop "From researcher to curator: a certification program for data deposit in Borealis Institutional Repositories."
- SickKids Research Institute will create "Introduction to Reproducible Neuroimaging Analysis," providing foundational training in reproducible research methods for neuroimaging studies.
- The University of Windsor team, working alongside Windsor Regional Hospital and Erie Shores HealthCare, will produce "The REDCap RDM Toolkit: From Project Planning to Public Deposit," offering comprehensive guidance on research data management using the REDCap platform.
The partnership between OBI's Centre for Analytics and Compute Ontario supports digital infrastructure and skills development across Ontario's research community.
Learn more about the OBI's Centre for Analytics: https://braininstitute.ca/research-data-sharing/centre-for-analytics