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    DIPLOMATHON GLOBAL

    COMMITTEE NAME: International Science Council


    AGENDA: Advancing Scientific Research and Collaborative Projects
    Introduction
    The demand for researchers to share their data has increased dramatically in recent years.
    There is a need to replicate and confirm scientific findings to bolster confidence in many
    research areas. Data sharing also serves the critical function of allowing synthesis of findings
    across trials. As innovative statistical methods have helped resolve barriers to synthesis
    analyses, data sharing and synthesis can help answer research questions that cannot be
    answered by individual trials alone. However, the sharing of data among researchers remains
    challenging and infrequent. This article aims to (a) increase support for data sharing and
    synthesis collaborations among researchers to advance scientific knowledge and (b) provide a
    model for establishing these collaborations using the example of the ongoing National Institute
    of Mental Health’s Collaborative Data Synthesis on Adolescent Depression Trials. This study
    brings together datasets from existing prevention and treatment trials in adolescent depression,
    as well as researchers and stakeholders, to answer questions about “for whom interventions
    work” and “by what pathways interventions have their effects.” This is critical to improving
    interventions, including increasing knowledge about intervention efficacy among minority
    populations, or what we call “scientific equity.” The collaborative model described is relevant to
    fields with research questions that can only be addressed by synthesizing individual-level data.

    Collaborative projects are inevitably associated with challenges that you might not experience
    with an individual research project. However, they can also offer many benefits. Here are just
    some of the ways in which collaborations can benefit your research and your career.

    Maximise outputs. By combining expertise and resources you can answer bigger and more
    complex scientific questions and expand the breadth of your research.
    Maximise impact. Research shows a positive correlation between collaborative papers and a
    high level of citations. For example, in one analysis of 28 million papers from the humanities
    and the natural, medical, and social sciences published between 1900 and 2011, papers with
    more authors received more citations, particularly if the authors were from different
    institutions1.
    Attract funding. Generating outputs that have an impact on policy, practice, industry, or the
    general public can increase your chances of getting funded. In addition, some funding bodies
    now give priority to international and industry-academia collaborations. For example, the EU
    Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, which offered nearly 80 billion Euros of funding between
    DIPLOMATHON GLOBAL
    2014 and 2020 for research projects tackling societal challenges, prioritized collaborative
    projects.
    Expand your network. Working collaboratively can help you meet potential future employers,
    mentors, and collaborators.
    Embrace the new. Collaborations are opportunities to learn new skills, make new friends, gain a
    new perspective, and join stimulating discussions and with experts in your field or
    complementary fields.

    Benefits of collaborations
    ● Becoming acquainted with other higher education and science systems
    ● Conducting comparative research
    ● Learning from and helping each other
    ● Distribution of labor
    ● Multidisciplinary advances thinking and facilitates development of theoretical
    approaches and methods
    ● Broadening knowledge
    2021
    The first international framework on open science was adopted by 193 countries attending
    UNESCO’s General Conference in November 2021. By making science more transparent and
    more accessible, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science will make science more
    equitable and inclusive. Through open science, scientists
    After thorough understanding of collaboration, it can be assumed that language, financial
    commitment, inadequate regulatory frameworks, and diverse interests are among the potential
    challenges in collaborative research. This can be successful if the collaborators respect each
    other and without involving their ego and also willing to give and take constructive criticism
    without being defensive. To conclude, the results of these collaborations will not only be seen in
    specific work done at the time of collaboration but also during the professional lifetimes of
    scholarship and publication.

    U.S. scientists and collaborators have a powerful new instrument at their disposal—the Nation's
    first Exa scale supercomputer. In June, 2022, the international Top500 list of most powerful
    systems in the world named the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science system Frontier
    the world's fastest supercomputer.
    Located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Frontier is a collaboration between DOE and
    U.S. technology companies HPE and AMD. This milestone marks the beginning of the
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    long-awaited Exa scale era, following more than 10 years of research and development by the
    nation's brightest minds—not only for Frontier but other upcoming DOE Exa scale systems.
    Exa scale systems will provide the next-generation of computing desperately needed to
    understand climate change and prediction, design new materials for energy technologies and
    fusion reactors, build stronger and more adaptive power grid, develop new Cancer treatments,
    provide rapid near real-time data analysis for scientific facilities such as light sources, and
    address challenges in energy, environment, and national security.

    Science is changing in many ways. The specifics vary among disciplines and subdisciplines, but,
    in general, scientists are addressing increasingly complex problems, the instruments and
    facilities needed to conduct research are becoming increasingly expensive,1 and funding for
    scientists is becoming tighter, especially on a per capita basis. These are among the factors that
    are promoting broader interest in collaboration, although the nature and extent of collaboration
    differ across disciplines. They are also promoting broader interest in the efficiency of the
    scientific process, something to which more widespread use of computing and communications
    may contribute.
    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 1993. National Collaboratories:
    Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research. Washington, DC: The National
    Academies Press.
    Early in this century, the "gentleman's agreement" in astronomy was that when an individual
    began to publish observations of a certain class of stars, other astronomers would avoid
    observing that particular class. Now there are many more astronomers than there are classes of
    stars, and all types of observations are fair game for those who have suitable instrumentation at
    their disposal. Scientific activity has been growing so rapidly that the doubling time for the body
    of scientific information is now about 12 years, and today, at least 90 percent of all scientists
    who have ever lived are still alive.

    Meanwhile, the nature of data collection has changed significantly, and the opportunities for
    making measurements have increased dramatically. For example, the ability to field automated
    instruments that can monitor conditions in distant reaches of space or in remote ocean regions
    has produced massive amounts of data. Moreover, new fields of science have arisen because it
    became possible to make particular kinds of observations.2

    A result of the explosive growth in all the sciences is the sheer volume of information to be
    accessed, stored, analyzed, and understood. Any one individual can master only tiny fractions of
    the total of scientific knowledge. This is the individual who "knows more and more about less
    and less."
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    At the same time, the complexity of many of the problems now being addressed by scientists
    has led to an increase in interdisciplinary research, as well as to the recognition that computers
    and communications, or information technology, have become essential tools for handling
    complexity. The requirements for collecting and sharing massive amounts of data, the
    difficulties of developing and working with models of complex phenomena, the requirements
    for massive computation (achievable through shared high-performance computing systems or
    through interconnected distributed computing
    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 1993. National Collaboratories:
    Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research. Washington, DC: The National
    Academies Press.
    Moderated Caucus Topics
    1. Contrasting cultural and organizational expectations and norms
    2. Space collaborations being a part of a major projects
    3. Differences in communication habits or preferences, such as frequency, timing, tone,
    and mode of communication, can lead to misunderstandings.
    4. Need for flexibility among partners and various research organizers
    5. Networking is another major dimension of capacity building.

    Question a Resolution must answer


    1. Becoming acquainted with other higher education and science systems
    2. Conducting comparative research
    3. Learning from and helping each other
    4. Distribution of labor
    5. Multidisciplinary advances thinking and facilitates development of theoretical
    approaches and methods

    Bibliography
    1. https://www.unesco.org/en/scientific-research-cooperation-why-collaborate-science-be
    nefits-and-examples
    2. https://www.stemcell.com/working-together
    3. https://www.energy.gov/science/ascr/advanced-scientific-computing-research
    4. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2109/chapter/35)
    5. https://www.amacad.org/news/international-research-emerging-science-partnerships

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