Communities of Practice (CoPs) group people from all around the globe around a common concern, a common set of problems, which is tackled by exchanging knowledge, ideas, and expertise.

CoPs also exist in science, although scientific communities of practice are more heterogeneous than their corporate counterparts, as members come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Yet, it is exactly for this interdisciplinarity that these groupings are valuable for a for deepening knowledge and learning.

In this context, the SCooP Workshop aims at joining people from different fields, such as mathematics, computer science, chemistry, physics, biology etc., who share a common interest -- Communities of Practice. The workshop thus wants to facilitate the exchange of experiences and implementations, and will in particular address questions such as:

• What are scientific or educational practice in educational and scientific communities?
• Can these practice be automatically detected/ collected/ or modeled?
• What are implementations for CoPs?
• Which features make these tools so attractive and how do they support (practices of) CoPs?

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