This session proposes a collaborative approach to think about future research  collaboration among researchers during ECER conference.

We based the sesión on the Kolb experiential learning theory (Kolb 1984). This has been a useful tool for addressing the real-world challenges of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation. The core principles of experiential learning permeate other similar theories of learning, demonstrating the vast impact of experiential learning on learning and creativity scholars.

In addition, the sesión is base don collaboration capability as a multi- and cross-level concept that can be used to understand and analyse the team’s relational interactions on different levels: individual, team, intra-organisational, organisational and inter-organisational. Blomqvist and Levy (2006, p. 39) define “collaboration capability as one’s capability to build and manage network relationships based on mutual trust, communication and commitment”. Salas et al. (2005) propose that three coordinating mechanisms support effective teamwork, namely, mutual trust, closed-looped communication and shared mental models. Communication ensures that every collaborator knows what they are doing and when they have to do it, which enhances the level of trust and promotes teamwork within a group (Ruppel & Harrington, 2002).

Therefore, the session will allow researchers through creative and innovative methods to be involved in a climate that will promote and make the conditions to develop imagination, brainstorming and brainwriting to share future research ideas.

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