LMU Open Science CenterWe’re excited to share that the cBRAIN Lab🧠, led by Inga Katharina Koerte at LMU Klinikum München (LMU Munich Hospital), has successfully completed our Switch to Open Program (SwOP) led by @MalikaIhle!
Over several months, we delivered tailored training and consultations using a flipped-classroom approach supported by our self-paced tutorials.
📚 Tutorials: https://github.com/lmu-osc
As part of the collaboration, we also co-developed and published a standard open research practice guide for the lab—now available as a reference for new projects and as an onboarding document for incoming team members.
📄 Guide: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16262260
We shared the lab’s achievement at the Neuroimaging Core Unit Munich (NICUM) Summer Festival to encourage other research groups to adopt and adapt similar practical guides (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7360737896632336385/?actorCompanyId=91742131).
During our final offboarding session, we reviewed progress and revisited our customisable open research cycle diagram.
🔄 Diagram: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15630229
Team members reflected on their individual projects, identifying which checklist items were essential, recommended, or aspirational for each stage of the research cycle. Together, we built a group consensus and outlined a timeline of next steps toward the lab’s ideal open research standards.
It has been incredibly rewarding to see the sustained motivation and progress of our first “switched” group. Huge thanks to Alberto Villagran, OSC Fellow and cBRAIN’s Computer Scientist, and Anja Betz, cBRAIN’s Lab Manager, for their invaluable support throughout this process, as well as to Reema G., for her FAIR data sharing expertise.
We also gratefully acknowledge our funder, the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung), for believing in the project and advancing open, responsible, and reproducible research practices.
