The collaboration group has 4 main functionalities:
1) you can share information, ask questions, discuss research questions and/or share links (e.g. of papers) in the discussion forum. Group members can easily reply and the conversation history is stored here, so you can always come back later to find something that was previously shared. Group members will receive a notification when something is added to the discussion (unless they opted out of the notifications).
2) You can share some documents in the group, and a link for a shared online storage space. We can't store too many documents on the platform, so you can use your own preferred tool to collaborate on documents and store files for the groups.
3) you can add other links, e.g. the zoomlink for your monthly meeting, or the website links for the centres that you work with.
4) the group gathers all the profiles of people with whom you work together. When you click on the profiles you can find more information about the person and the opportunities/events/groups he/she is active in. This can inspire you further.
In 'about the group' and 'group rules' a group manager can also add other information or aims for the group, please read it for further instructions on how to use the group.
Yes you can. Our platforms facilitates some discussion forum and document sharing. But you can link to videoconferencing tools, brainstorming tools, document storage tools etc that you would like to use for your collaboration. You can see your collaboration group as a place where all these other tools can be found.
Yes, of course you can. We welcome researchers from other universities when they are invited by researchers from the ENGAGE.EU network. Get in contact with the community manager to introduce him/her. After that, this person can register to the platform and his/her account will be validated.
You can invite everyone on this collaboration platform to join your collaboration group. Is your research partner not yet registered on the platform, ask him/her to make an account first.
Is your collaboration partner not part of the ENGAGE.EU network? Then still, he/she might be able to join the platform. Get in contact with the community manager to introduce him/her to the community.
You can invite anyone in the platform to start collaborating with you in a group. The easiest way is to 'create a group' and invite your colleagues to join that group. Or you can create a collaboration opportunity, inviting the whole community to consider joining your group.