Inter-Organizational Collaboration: Partnerships, Alliances and Networks

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style="box-sizing:border-box">Facilitate networking amongst members and with industries, government bodies and communities</li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box">Facilitate growth of the subject area</li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box">Organise a stream at each BAM Conference</li> <li style="box-sizing:border-box">Arrange a series of workshops and events at different universities over a year involving members and non-members</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-sig-committee-members field-type-text-long field-label-above" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:#ffffff; box-sizing:border-box; color:#333333; font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif; font-size:18px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; 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href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/ioc-phd-conference-pre-submission-workshop.html">IOC PhD Conference Pre-Submission Workshop</a> - 10th January 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-january.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 19 January 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-february.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 16 February 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-march.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 16 March 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-april.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 20 April 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-may.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee -</a> 18 May</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-lunch-coffee-june.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 8th June 2022</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee-november22.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 16th November</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-ioc-sig-breakfast-coffee.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 25 January</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/multi-stakeholder-partnerships-towards-sustainable-development-theory-and-practice.html">Multi-stakeholder Partnerships Towards Sustainable Development: Theory and Practice</a> - 7th March 2023</p> <p><a href="https://www.bam.ac.uk/events-landing/ems-event-calendar/inter-organisational-collaboration-sig-breakfast-coffee.html">Inter-Organisational Collaboration (IOC) SIG Breakfast & Coffee</a> - 8th March</p> <h4 class="field-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">SIG Committee Members 2024</h4> <p>SIG Co-Chair - Sanne Bor</p> <p>SIG Co-Chair - Claudio De Mattos</p> <p>Treasurer – Andrew Humphries</p> <p>PhD Rep and Media Officer -  Justin Partridge </p> <p>PhD Rep 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