Abbiamo assistito di recente a una collaborazione un po' sorprendente tra un ricercatore di scienze sociali negli Stati Uniti e un astrofisico con sede a Londra. Sembra improbabile, vero? E su cosa hanno lavorato insieme? Analisi dei dati! Il ricercatore (della Stony Brook University di New York) stava studiando l'effetto della frequenza delle visite in palestra sul rendimento scolastico. Il suo team non è stato in grado di ottenere alcun modello significativo dal set di dati di quasi 800.000 record. Ha pubblicato il suo progetto su Kolabtreee un astrofisico dell'Imperial College di Londra (che è abituato a gestire grandi serie di dati, come si potrebbe immaginare) lo hanno aiutato a portare a termine il progetto.
Questo è solo uno dei tanti esempi delle molte collaborazioni transfrontaliere che stanno avvenendo in tutto il mondo. Poiché la scienza diventa sempre più interdisciplinare, ci sono molteplici sovrapposizioni nelle competenze e conoscenze richieste per i diversi campi di studio. Secondo un Rapporto scientifico dell'UNESCO, “one in four scientific articles produced around the world were cosigned by a foreign collaborator in 2014, compared to one in five a decade earlier.” Countries all over the world are joining hands to help fuel research and innovation, in a political climate that is becoming alarmingly anti-science. Under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, academia in the EU and the USA will be able to work together closely. Science Europe and Elsevier conducted a studio which examined cross-border collaborations and found that “researchers in the US are more likely to collaborate with researchers from outside the US than researchers in Europe are likely to collaborate with researchers outside Europe.” This also means that there is a huge potential for European researchers to expand their network outside the region.
We’ve seen cross-border partnerships in all realms of science and tech – take NASA-ISRO (NISAR), Novartis-Google (smart contact lenses), GE-Microsoft (PaaS). Five tech giants – Google, Amazon, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft – hanno recentemente formato the Partnership on Intelligenza artificiale to Benefit People and Society. In assistenza sanitaria, collaborative platforms help deliver quality medical services around the world – John Hopkins works with institutions in Canada, Turkey, UAE, Singapore and Brazil, just to name a few. Networks like Catapulta Regno Unito collegare imprese, ingegneri e scienziati che possono lavorare insieme per trasformare le idee in prodotti e servizi innovativi, guidando la crescita economica.
It’s no secret that collaboration is definitely the way forward for better research, better innovation. We believe that science and research can never be restricted by lines on a map. As a platform that encourages cross-border collaboration, we’ve started the 1TP3Ricerca senza frontiere initiative, that aims to showcase collaborative projects in science, tech, engineering and medicine from around the world. If you’re an organization, a researcher, a university or an individual collaborating across borders on an exciting research project, we’d love to hear from you!
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