We are a non-profit dedicated to facilitating scientific collaborations—especially those that don’t emerge naturally—by finding the experts needed to complement research projects and documenting the credit due to every participant.
Some collaborations add enormous value: A discussion about a protocol can save weeks of trial-and-error; a recommendation for the correct statistical test can save a retraction. Today, collaborations are limited by the difficulty to find the right expert and the lack of credit for small contributions. We strive to eliminate these two barriers, creating a community where both brief and long-term collaborations can be easily started and easily credited.
To facilitate scientific collaborations in order to promote the advancement of science, its contribution to society, and the well-being of scientists.
We receive requests from researchers looking for a collaborator. A network of scientific advisors finds an adequate expert, while careful curation ensures a good match. The requester receives a single highly qualified contact. Detailed documentation ensures that every contribution, no matter how small, can be credited.
Crowdfight was born to fight the covid-19 pandemic, by putting scientists from any discipline at the service of those in the front lines against covid-19. This experience showed that asymmetric collaborations can easily be established across the world, the enormous value that they can add, and that many become symmetric long-term collaborations that benefit both parties. Crowdfight covid-19 reached >45000 volunteers, and >100 successful requests before we extended our activity to other fields.
Crowdfight is a non-profit organization. It runs, first and foremost, thanks to the generosity of thousands of scientists who donate their time and skill to make our system work. Likewise, most of the core team is formed by scientists and developers who donate their free time to organize the platform. It is also funded by a grant from the European Co-creation Secretariat, which supports a small administrative team and our technological infrastructure. We are also grateful to several companies that let us use their software for free (Google and Slack) or with significant discounts, (Freshdesk, JotForm, MailerLite and Kinsta).
Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca, Spain
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse, France
Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Vaud University Hospital Centre, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Institute for Functional Genomics, CNRS, INSERM, University of Montpellier, France
Huesca, Spain
Seville, Spain
Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal
Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal
Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal
Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, Konstanz University. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Department of Computer and Information Science, Konstanz, Germany
Research Center on Animal Cognition, Center for Integrative Biology, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal
Crowdfight
Crowdfight
Antoine Cayphas – Thomas McColgan – Ildefonso Macarro – Florent Le Moël – Alfonso Núñez – ICMAT – Hayley Simpson – Priyansha Sheel – Rafi Glass – Álvaro Orts – María Loza – Marian Sardon – Enrique Pérez Palaci – CovidWarriors – Victòria Brugada – Gabriel Madirolas – Julián Vicente – Hiranya Pintana – David Gil
contact@crowdfight.org
