## See our blog [Creating a Collaborative Culture](http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/) for up to date information. ---------- ### Who we are: **Creating a Culture of Collaboration at George Washington University (C3@GWU)** is a University Seminar that convenes a cross-disciplinary community of expert faculty interested in issues related to scientific collaboration and connects them with regional and national partners and experts to explore and address topics that foster collaborative science. **C3@GWU** knowledge communities (“think tanks”) represent GWU, regional institutes, and federal government stakeholders. **C3@GWU** will generate short and long term agendas and discussions that emphasize the mechanisms of scientific collaboration at GW about: * [Developing and educating team scientists][1] * [Measuring team effectiveness][2] * [Technologies for collaboration and scholarship informetrics][3] * [Required organizational supports for team science and collaboration][4] * [Faculty reward and recognition for collaborative activities][5], * [Issues related to crossing cultural, ethnic, and gender boundaries in science][6]. ---------- ### C3@GWU Seminar Objectives: * **Assemble knowledge communities (“think tanks”)** of key contributors and stakeholders from throughout and beyond GWU to foster cross-disciplinary discourse and generate agendas for action in creating a collaborative culture at GWU. * **Explore key topical areas critical to scientific collaboration** within and beyond the GWU scholarly community. * **Examine critical areas of academic and organizational collaborative functioning** that will strengthen a growing culture of collaboration at GWU. * **Propose collaborative and team protocols, policies, and activities** to university leadership and decision-makers responsible for empowering GWU collaborative science. * **Disseminate key products and create knowledge-sharing events** that will enhance collaborative activity at the GW department, school, and university levels. ---------- ### Get involved: * **Join a Think Tank** by contacting any of the think tank leads or the convener. * Think Tanks are settings where interested participants can interface with other experts and stakeholders. Think Tanks convene 2-3 times a semester to discuss issues related to their focus topic. * **Look out for C3@GWU events.** You need not have participated in Think Tank to attend an event. * **Subscribe to the C3@GWU Blog** to get the latest news and updates from participants and followers. * **Request a special event** with your department, unit or school hosting a C3@GWU seminar participant or think tank group. [1]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/educating-team-and-interprofessional-scientists/ [2]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/the-science-of-team-science-measuring-team-effectiveness/ [3]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/collaborative-technologies-and-informetrics/ [4]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/being-a-cross-disciplinary-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/ [5]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/trust-vision-recognition-and-scholarly-credit/ [6]: http://blogs.gwu.edu/collaborativeculture/i-being-a-team-scientist-being-prepared-knowing-your-resources-and-using-available-tools/crossing-gender-ethnic-and-cultural-boundaries-in-science-and-research/