It is rare – and rarely desirable – that a collaborative project simply ends and has no further outputs, influences or developments. Long before the project reaches its formal end-point, the participants need to have thought through not just the likely outputs but the channels of dissemination and the networks through which results can be communicated to others. A successful partnership may have prompted plans for further collaboration or for a longer-term association between institutions: transparency, imagination and determination will underpin participants’ efforts to bridge culture gaps and build sustainable relationships.

 

 Activities

Define the project direction - terminating; re-convening; institutionalising

Review the collaboration - how to close the project without closing off the relationship

Reflect on the cultural learning and acknowledge the social capital created

Celebrate and disseminate the formal outcomes

Identify diverse modes of transferring learning into the wider organisations