Testemunhamos recentemente uma colaboração algo surpreendente entre um pesquisador de ciências sociais nos EUA e um astrofísico sediado em Londres. Parece improvável, certo? E no que eles trabalharam juntos? Análise de dados! O pesquisador (da Universidade Stony Brook, Nova York) estava estudando o efeito da freqüência das visitas de ginástica no desempenho acadêmico. Sua equipe não conseguiu obter nenhum padrão significativo do conjunto de dados de cerca de 800.000 registros. Ele publicou seu projeto em Kolabtreee um astrofísico do Imperial College London (que está acostumado a lidar com grandes conjuntos de dados, como se imagina) o ajudou a levar o projeto até sua conclusão.
Este é apenas um dos muitos exemplos das muitas colaborações transfronteiriças que estão acontecendo ao redor do mundo. medida que a ciência se torna cada vez mais interdisciplinar, há múltiplas sobreposições nas habilidades e conhecimentos necessários para diferentes campos de estudo. De acordo com um Relatório científico da 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 estudo 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 – formaram recentemente the Partnership on Inteligência Artificial to Benefit People and Society. In saúde, 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 Catapult UK conectar empresas, engenheiros e cientistas que podem trabalhar juntos para transformar idéias em produtos e serviços inovadores, impulsionando o crescimento econômico.
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 #researchwithoutborders 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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