"forge a collaboration" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you want to express the idea of forming a partnership or working together to achieve a goal. For example, "The two companies decided to forge a collaboration to create a new product line."
The East Manchester Academy, Manchester: forge a collaboration between year 9 computer science students and a local Manchester-based interactive 3D solutions provider, so students can become innovators for school problems.
Etchells's discussion of his project, Art Flavours, where he sought to forge a collaboration between the Italian academic and critic Roberto Pinto and the ice-cream maker Osvaldo Castellari is an excellent example of how high-brow experimentalism can be brought together with a quite literally tasty populism.
Several efforts to forge a collaboration failed.
In addition to starting his technician off in a new direction, Ashok had also set up a lunch meeting with the speaker to see if they could forge a collaboration.
For example the National Heart ,Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a component of the US National Institutes of Health and UnitedHealth Group, one of the world's largest health and wellbeing companies, have forged a collaboration to counter chronic diseases by supporting a collaborative global network of centres of excellence (COEs) in low-income and middle-income countries [ 45].
At the time, he was forging a collaboration with Astor Piazzolla, the master of nuevo tango, who urged him to tap into a deeper vein of emotional expression.
Forging a collaboration with Scorsese, the two paired again for a biopic of the eccentric and obsessive American film director and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004).
While largely unheralded outside of scientific circles, and unknown even to many younger Hiroshima residents, the researchers' joint efforts are a unique example of how the two former adversaries forged a collaboration amid the ashes of hate and war, creating a project to benefit people worldwide.
To leverage those 100 million "acts," to engage people worldwide faster and spur people into environmental action, Earth Day Network has forged a collaboration with the ubiquitous social platform Facebook on the Billion Acts of Green® campaign, the world's largest environmental advocacy and service project.
Although the outlook initially did not look optimistic, we forged a collaboration with many participants, notably including Alan Ashworth, Andy Futreal and David Bentley (at the then Sanger Centre) and won the race at the end of 1995 (Wooster et al, 1995).
If Channel 4 succeeds in buying the Virgin Media stake as part of its ongoing attempts to forge a lasting collaboration – perhaps even a merger – with BBC Worldwide, it could at long last provide UKTV with more stable ownership.
