ENHANCING JOINT WORK THROUGH COLLABORATIVE FORMATS

Main goals:

• Fostering meaningful connections between PIs
• Fostering exchange of PIs and PhD students/postgraduate students
• Making scientific commonalities (research foci, challenges, approaches) among PIs from UHEI & UC even more visible
• From a practical perspective, boost the number of joint research activities so far between UC and UHEI PIs

PROPOSALS

1. Scientific exchange among PIs:
   1. Virtual coffee chats: Researchers meet in a relaxed videoconference setting to discuss and share ideas on a previously given topic.
      Topics: XXXXXXXX
      Coordination & technical requirements: HCLA
      Moderation: either one PI or a coordinator with a scientific background
      Participants: any PI interested
      Duration: 45-60 min.
   2. Online or hybrid seminars or workshops: in 1 to 3 days, PIs, early career researchers, PhDs and master students in their final study year get together in Santiago/Heidelberg/online to approach a topic related to the IRTG 
      Coordination & technical requirements: HCLA 
      Possible funding depends on the location and organizers: …
   3. Heidelberger Brücke LatAm Edition:
      Long-established, easy-to-implement and popular format by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment, consisting on online presentation series tackling sustainability-related topics. A potential LatAm Edition would be the first with a regional focus. 
      Coordination: HCLA & HCE
      Technical requirements: HCE?
2. Collaboration in lectures & with PhDs:
   1. Book presentations and book discussions in lectures: During a lecture of a peer PI, a PI from the other country is interviewed by him/her to present an own book and discuss a few, selected hot topics with PhDs
   2. Co-taught PhD courses: either one or more sessions are opened to students in Chile and Germany and co-taught by two or more PIs from both countries
   3. Flipped co-teaching in PhD programs: For 1-2 sessions, two PIs (one from each country) solve open questions of PhDs and supervise class activities on a reading assignment previously given and studied at home by the PhD students in preparation for the class.
   4. Co-supervised “case study analyses”: A UHEI and a UC PI collaborate in the drafting of a case study and in the supervision of a binational cohort of PhD or master students in the resolution of the case. If work group is wished, groups should be binational.
   5. Happy hour! Promovierende meet doctorandas y doctorandos: Short bi-weekly online formats for PhD students of UHEI and UC to get acquainted, also with PhD students from their own university but enrolled in other doctoral programs
      Coordination & technical support: HCLA 
      Duration: 45 min.
   6. The classic: Online/hybrid short (third-party funded) project presentation SERIES by PIs and/or PhD students. Presentations take the form of a flash-talk or pitch (max. 5 min.) and serve as a trigger/impulse for the subsequent exchange of questions, answers and ideas.
   7. Shared resources: Finding ways to share databases, experimental protocols (OSC), didactic materials, software tools, latest or relevant publications & seminal works, videos, press articles… OPEN SCIENCE! (national standards for data sharing should be considered!)
3. Scientific communication:
   1. HCIAS podcast: New series “[title related to the xxxxxxx]”, comprising 3-4 chapters with UHEI and UC researchers
   2. Exhibitions: Groups of PIs and PhDs visualize their findings in original, attractive ways for a broader audience and exhibit the posters at the HCLA / HCIAS in Heidelberg / other locations (= “Data is Art!”, “My research project in photos”)
   3. Cinema series: Projection of documentaries followed by comments and discussion by PIs and PhD students
   4. Policy Briefs Series UHEI-UC on topics of common interest: 4 pages max., with graphic support for data visualization – HCLA bi-regional policy brief series on (xxxxxxxxx)