These results suggest that the COST funding concept can be a flexible yet efficient tool for networking and coordination of the fragmented nationally funded research projects and in many cases leads to at least some applied S&T outputs.
The main objectives were to improve networking and coordination among actors involved in efforts to combat the practice, explaining the legal framework to them and integrating the issue into formal and non-formal education.
6 17–20 To address the need for more integrated services through planning, networking and coordination, the Australian Government established a model of regional primary healthcare organisations, called Medicare Locals.
The identified patterns indicate that a light funding framework such as COST, which is built primarily on the proposals coming from the European researchers themselves, could ensure a needed support for the networking and the coordination of research activities, which lead to a wide range of applied S&T outputs.
Phase II (2005 - 2007 added a focus on enabling adolescents to participate in the management of safe spaces; supported networking among adolescents; and coordination with other organisations working with adolescents.
The term collaboration was conceptualized as a point on a continuum of ways of working together that includes: networking, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration.
The Afghan initiative offers a forum for extensive information-sharing, networking and funding to improve coordination and collaboration on girls' education.
Both countries were also assessing the state of their national health research systems, and working (with the support of DFID, Wellcome Trust and IDRC) to develop a five-year plan to strengthen individual, institutional, coordination, networking and regulatory capacities.
The Levels of Collaboration Survey [ 48] gives insight into different stages of collaboration with a description of the networking, cooperation, coordination, coalition, and collaboration stages.
While all comparator countries – and institutions within them – addressed the three streams discussed in this paper, the relative roles of central oversight, networking, coordination, and decentralization vary.
8.Although there is networking between partners, a need still exists to promote such networks to be active to insure full cooperation and coordination between partners.
