The CETRA network – dense, close and strong?
We present the results of a survey, made on the CETRA partnership, to which we have applied some of tools described in the Complex Network module (http://www.cetracourse.org/).
At the end of the implementation of the CETRA project (April 2007), a high network density can be observed: 0.75 on a maximum of 1.
CETRA is a highly connected partnership, but the relations of collaboration are not rated very strong. Possible explanations for this observation can be collected – for example, CETRA is not the only project the participating organisations are working on, so there are usually other projects competing for the resources. Nevertheless, there are more than 18 % of the relations which are labelled to have a “high collaboration intensity” by the partners.
Distance is an important term used in network analysis; it is defined as the length of any shortest path between two nodes (actors of the network).
“Closeness” is therefore a way to describe a network, focussing on the minimum steps of the actors necessary to relate to other nodes in the network. In the network analytical point of view, closeness is a minimum distance and we observe that the partners which are most distant to each other are also only two steps away from each other (for example one step from EUPHON to MENON, another step from MENON to SOPRON/INSRET – which makes EUPHON and INSRET two nodes distant from each other.
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