Overview 

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.

 

• 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