For starters, they are synonyms.
There is a subtle difference however.
- When you cooperate with someone you work with them, help them, do what someone has asked or told you to do. And you do it without complaining or arguing.
- Cooperation could just mean that you've given me help on something I'm working on and that I'm ultimately responsible for.)
collaborate - (
- If you collaborate with me on a project, we have shared authorship.
- ollaboration is linked to "agreement" (like a contract for a common short-term benefit
- Collaborate means to work together with 2 or more people to produce a piece of work. It’s a co-production. Collaborate is particularly used in the context of whole-of-government contexts, or multi-agency contexts. In other words, to produce a result when multiple agencies are involved, all players must collaborate – work together to produce a result.)