The phrase "initial collaboration" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the first time two people or organizations work together on a project, or to the first stage of any collaboration. For example, "The initial collaboration between our two companies was a great success and set the bar for future projects."
An initial collaboration between Tuareg separatists and the jihadis helped the jihadis take control of northern Mali last year.
It was George who built the molecule, but Kaplan argues that the initial collaboration created the blueprint for all that followed.
In some areas of the former USSR that are keen to shrug off Moscow's influence, Russia's role in the second world war is seen largely through the initial collaboration with Hitler.
Although the federation has been joined by three more primary schools and now become an academy trust, Mike Johnson, executive headteacher, says the input of governors was crucial to the success of the initial collaboration.
Gazzara had established a willingness to work outside the commercial mainstream, specialising in anti-social characters including a plumply brutish Al Capone in Capone (1975), but his career wavered between quality and dross, film and television, and work in the US, Italy and a few other countries, notching up more than 80 movies in the years following his initial collaboration with Cassavetes.
This chapter presents the initial collaboration between AtlanMod and Sodifrance, which led to a model-driven legacy modernization approach.
This work is dedicated to Nicole Israël (initial collaboration-PTR-60).
An initial analysis of collaboration on software artifacts shows that the collaboration among software developers is very strong (at the bottom of Fig. 9 (Additional file 9)).
CMH was responsible for the questions on positive psychotic-like symptom, funding and the initial idea in collaboration with MH.
The interpretative hermeneutic approach aims to reach some kind of "fusion of horizons", enriching the initial understanding about collaboration at the nexus, with the interpreter's knowledge as background [ 38].
In a new documentary by filmmaker Justin Mitchell, The Creators Project takes an unprecedented look at The Postal Service and their 10 year history, from the initial long distance collaborations that created the 2003 sleeper hit Give Up through to the band's recent string of reunion dates at venues and festivals far exceeding original expectations.
