The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an extraordinary mobilization of the global scientific community, resulting in unprecedented levels of open collaboration across disciplines, institutions, and national borders. Researchers rapidly adopted preprint servers for immediate dissemination, shared genomic sequences through platforms like GISAID, and formed distributed teams to tackle urgent questions about the virus. Major funding bodies including the WHO, NIH, and Wellcome Trust coordinated to remove barriers to data sharing and accelerate research outputs. This period reshaped norms around open science, demonstrating how crisis-driven collaboration can dramatically compress timelines for scientific discovery and translational outcomes. It is particularly relevant in Healthcare, Social Sciences and Public Policy.

COVID-19 Open Science Collaborations supports interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, distributed and open source collaboration and is suited for multi-organization networks and community-scale initiatives in remote settings.

COVID-19 Open Science Collaborations is an established case study with a solid track record of use across multiple contexts. This case study examines the collaborative practices at Multiple (WHO, NIH, Wellcome Trust, etc.), drawing on experiences since 2020.