Not only are they a pair of rare charm, they're also an infectious live act, but one whose reputation also rests on their willingness to embrace new challenges: collaborations with acts from around the world (as on their excellent new album Folila), and also the staging of gigs in unusual locations – such as with their series of shows called Eclipse, which take place in total darkness.
To overcome these challenges, collaborations involving government, academia, industry, and philanthropies and new cross-sector partnerships such as the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, a virtual consortium of independent organizations, are being established to advance HIV vaccine research and foster greater collaboration among HIV vaccine researchers worldwide (11 ).
To address this challenge, collaboration from an interdisciplinary group of stakeholders will be necessary.
Finally, a sizeable minority of respondents reported that they had encountered challenges in collaboration or were shown to be less interested or skilled in collaboration than other respondents.
Challenges: "International collaboration has challenges such as differences in culture or priorities, language barriers and the need to work around various time zones".
"Science has a very important role in addressing global challenges and collaboration is necessary so that everybody can agree on global solutions.
It is generally agreed that issues relating to environmental deterioration can trigger conflict in a region, but its capacity to provide a platform to meet common challenges through collaboration is often underestimated.
We asked two speakers about the challenges of collaboration: Rick Conner, author of this year's World Water and Development Report on water and energy: The water and energy sectors speak different languages.
Many of today's challenges require collaboration between governments, civil society and business not least because globalisation has made big business so much more influential while austerity has made governments less ambitious in this regard.
Some of the before-mentioned challenges of collaboration in teams have been addressed using augmented reality technology.
