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

Tobias Vaegs (), Claudia Jooß, Ingo Leisten, Anja Richert and Sabina Jeschke
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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

A chapter in Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2013/2014, 2014, pp 715-726 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Cooperation Platform; Research Network; Transdisciplinary; Metaproject (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08816-7_55

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