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Persistent research neighborhoods

ArkConnect keeps research communities alive after projects end.

ArkConnect is the collaboration layer for people, artifacts, discussions, events, and knowledge neighborhoods across ResearchArk.

Our Mission

Transform temporary project collaboration into durable knowledge neighborhoods that preserve context, relationships, and reusable research outputs.

Our Vision

A research ecosystem where knowledge flows across disciplines, institutions, funding cycles, and communities without losing provenance or trust.

The problem

Research collaboration loses too much context between funding cycles.

Valuable insights, relationships, and tacit expertise often disappear into closed folders, expired tools, and disconnected personal networks. ArkConnect gives communities a persistent operating space.

89%

Research networks that lose momentum after project completion

67%

Valuable insights that remain difficult to reuse across institutions

45%

Extra effort often spent rebuilding lost collaboration context

Architecture

Sector Neighborhoods

Persistent spaces for domains such as health, energy, AI, climate, and digital public infrastructure.

Programme Neighborhoods

Reusable collaboration spaces around funders, programmes, calls, cohorts, and long-running research initiatives.

Project Neighborhoods

Project teams that keep their artifacts, discussions, and people connected after the grant period ends.

Topic Neighborhoods

Focused spaces for shared methods, emerging topics, expert groups, and cross-institution knowledge exchange.

Values

Collaboration

Research progress depends on relationships that survive beyond a single project.

Continuity

Artifacts, decisions, discussions, and people should remain discoverable over time.

Translation

Neighborhoods make it easier to move evidence into shared practice and public impact.

Stewardship

Communities need governance, access control, and clear ownership from the beginning.

Build a lasting home for your research network.

Start with one neighborhood and grow toward a connected knowledge city.