Transnational, trans-sectorial and transgenerational collaboration: a proposal to build social capital using the SPLIT Framework

Building social capital is crucial for the effective collaboration, project implementation, and successful team working within project teams. These elements can be especially imperative when running global teams across national boundaries and diverse businesses industries, with participants from different age-ranges. The importance for participants to spend time and effort building social capital, to advantage both the project itself and one’s own career, is not always fully understood or appreciated by those within a team. Equally, for those facilitating, it can be difficult to find activities and opportunities which suit a highly diverse team. Using the SPLIT Framework, this paper sets out ideas to overcome these issues and accelerate the social capital underpinning a major international research project operating across five countries, multiple industries, and which includes participants from different generations. The aim is to enhance relationships between project participants, to ultimately sustain collaboration beyond the end of the funded project.