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A Virtual Collaboration Platform to Enhance Scientific Performance within Transdisciplinary Research Networks

In: Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014

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  • Tobias Vaegs

    (RWTH Aachen University, IMA/ZLW & IfU)

  • Claudia Jooß

    (RWTH Aachen University, IMA/ZLW & IfU)

  • Ingo Leisten

    (RWTH Aachen University, IMA/ZLW & IfU)

  • Anja Richert

    (RWTH Aachen University, IMA/ZLW & IfU)

  • Sabina Jeschke

    (RWTH Aachen University, IMA/ZLW & IfU)

Abstract

Scientific collaborations are getting more and more complex and transdisciplinary, as even demanded by many research funding sources. An example is the funding priority “Innovative capability in demographic change” initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Several collaborative projects investigate different parts of an overall research problem. These transdisciplinary research networks bring together very different institutions from academia and practice leading to many heterogeneous consortia investigating complex research questions. To discover potential synergies in such research networks means of supporting (physical as well as virtual) networking and collaboration are needed. There is no need to unify the inherent heterogeneity within these collaborations, but researchers must be enabled to learn and benefit from the given diversity. To meet this challenge a variety of different methods is used to enhance learning opportunities for the funding priority in the physical and above all in the virtual world. This paper describes the efforts to support the communication and cooperation within the funding priority and beyond. These efforts especially manifest in the virtual learning and cooperation platform designed for this very purpose.

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  • Tobias Vaegs & Claudia Jooß & Ingo Leisten & Anja Richert & Sabina Jeschke, 2014. "A Virtual Collaboration Platform to Enhance Scientific Performance within Transdisciplinary Research Networks," Springer Books, in: Sabina Jeschke & Ingrid Isenhardt & Frank Hees & Klaus Henning (ed.), Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014, edition 127, pages 715-726, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-08816-7_55
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08816-7_55
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