London: UK-based open innovation network Crowdhelix launched a free online match-making service which helps the researchers to tackle COVID19.
The free online match-making service has launched to help COVID-19 researchers find one another across the globe and check out funding opportunities and get to work tackling the virus faster.
The UK based open innovation network Crowdhelix, in partnership with media company ScienceBusiness, introduced crowdhelix.com/covid-19 – a simple online tool for COVID-19 researchers, which enables researchers from any country or with any speciality to connect with.
Researchers can click through to a special COVID-19 section of the custom-built 'Open Innovation' platform. And enables researchers to profile themselves, teams and organisations also can post opportunities to collaborate.
An intelligent recommender system then matches these opportunities with the most suitable prospective collaborators, using natural language processing and machine learning.
It is important that collaborative initiative is relevant in tackling the global challenge presented by COVID-19. The pandemic crosses national borders with ease, so it is important for organisations across various countries, sectors, and disciplines to collaborate and share their developing expertise in its diagnosis, prevention, and treatment says Boörn Kull, Head of Grants Office at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
With this, researchers hope colleagues across the world will join the COVID-19 Helix and collaborate on research projects to help tackle this global challenge.
The network currently connects researchers and innovators from over 450 organisations spanning 44 countries in disciplines from physics to medicine and beyond. The COVID-19 service is free.
