The first step towards interdisciplinary scientific collaboration is mutual understanding and to speak the same scientific knowledge. We have observed at multiple occasions that key words’ definitions vary from a discipline to another leading to confusions or, even worse to misinterpretations (table 1).

Writing this glossary in itself has set the foundations of interdisciplinary work, with people for which English isn’t the mother tongue. It is the beginning of a living process, which will be completed run of the river. Upon the project’s completion, this tool will be transferred to stakeholders.

You can download it here.