Types of Geoversity Partnerships
We envision diverse types and levels of partnerships to enrich the content and community of Geoversity. Partners can contribute by (co)-creating learning materials or dissemination content, or by being an active part of the community and engaging with the users and network. More specifically we are focusing on establishing three types of partnerships and agreements:
1. Collaboration Partners
A collaboration partner is an organization that contributes to creating and disseminating content through Geoversity. Collaboration partners are key in assuring the growth and success of Geoversity in the coming years.
Some examples and opportunities for collaboration partners include:
- Co-creation and dissemination of courses together with ITC and/or other partners. Complementary expertise, user perspective in designing a course, and learning materials stemming from research collaborations would enrich the course catalogue of Geoversity.
- Publishing and serving existing own courses through Geoversity to increase their outreach and impact.
- (Co)-creation of dissemination content. In addition to learning from courses, Geoversity users learn from several types of content. Partners can collaborate with Geoversity through publishing articles, interviews, news items, tutorials, info sessions and more.
Community Partners
Becoming a community partner allows an organization and its members to have access to the material and free courses on Geoversity but also gives them the opportunity to participate in collective activities with the community of users, stakeholders, and providers.
Some examples of added value in establishing community partnerships include:
- Engaging with the community through posting updates, publishing job opportunities and vacancies, posting assignments and having them matched with skills.
- Having access to and participating in discussion forums.
- Having access to a tailored set of information and materials based on their interests.
Providers
In addition to partners, we are also establishing cooperations and agreements with providers. The providers can be involved by:
- Offering data, products, software, and services to the Geoversity users at a competitive price.
- Sponsoring course development.
- Contributing to development of courses and learning materials providing data, knowledge and use cases.
- Sponsoring learners and providing incentives.