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ABCD-J researchers contributed to an exhibition booth, award-winning poster and “BrainHack” during this year’s Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France.

The ABCD-J platform and its core software components were presented at this year’s “BrainHack” Hackathon during the 2026 DGKN Congress.

ABCD-J’s work on trustworthy machine learning is closely connected to ethical research on medical AI at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a link that is a focus of the Neuroethics and Ethics in AI group and its Phil.Tech.Talks lecture series.

Representatives of the project partners met last Friday at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich for a network meeting.

From October 29 to 30, the ABCD-J project was a guest at the KreativInstitut OWL at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Detmold for the networking meeting of all nine funded cooperation platforms of the MKW NRW.

The 2025 Distribits conference and hackathon on distributed data management technologies takes place October 23-25th in Düsseldorf, Germany.

At the “Tag der Neugier” 2025, the research centre Jülich opened its doors to all interested visitors and presented scientific projects across all disciplines.

This month’s Jour Fixe of the NRW State Initiative for Research Data Management focused on an exciting topic: the connection between research data management and research software development.

Bonn, 04 July 2025 - The ABCD-J consortium convened its 2025 Annual Meeting with DLR Projektträger and ABCD-J project site representatives to reflect on milestones and plan future directions for the platform.

As part of the ABCD-J project’s commitment to promoting collaboration and capacity-building, a free three-day workshop (30 June to 02 July 2025) was hosted at RWTH Aachen University to introduce participants to DataLad, one of the core components of the ABCD-J platform.

Answering the next generation of open questions in neuroscience requires large data sets and complex analysis methods.

Both the ABCD-J project and the JTrack platform individually were presented at this years’ deRSE conference in Karlsruhe, the annual meeting of research software engineers (RSEs) in Germany.

On February 1, 2025, we welcome a new Community Manager, Jenna Swarthout Goddard, to the project.

After a successful evaluation, the CRC 1451 (Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease) was granted funding for the second funding period.

At this year’s congress of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde eV (DGPPN), Simon Eickhoff, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine: Brain and Behavior (INM-7), presented the ABCD-J project.

The case-e project was funded by the FZJ’s Innovation Fund.

The DFG is funding the Transregio/Collaborative Research Center TRR379 (Neuropsychology of Aggression) - a joint project that uses the same services as the ABCD-J in the area of data management.

The ABCD-J project was officially launched by the alliance partners on September 22 with a packed program on the FZJ campus.