If I need to push a heavy box out of the way, and you are in my way, I may ask you to move. If you move, then you are cooperating with me. (complying with a simple request; no goal in mind) If I ask for your help in moving the heavy box so we both can move past it, then we are collaborating. (working together for a common goal)

Collaboration - multiple people, usually from different organizations, groups, entities, geographies, etc. working together on a project or initiative. It implies a degree of joint effort though perhaps not quite a tightly knit as a team. The word indicates independent folks focusing on a common effort. Cooperation implies that the players/contributors/participants generally share common goals and interests, yet particular participants may only support rather than own an outcome or project.

Yes, there is. A collaboration means a close partnership between two or more people, who work together on a creative achievement. For example, many songs are collaborations between a composer, who writes the music, and a lyricist, who writes the words. The completed song is "by" Rodgers and Hart, or Lieber and Stoller. Books with two authors are collaborations. Cooperation simply means that someone has willingly agreed to give help or assistance. Often it is in the nature of a favor--the person didn't need to cooperate. However, they don't have any responsibility for the work or project, and they don't get credit as an author. Suppose that you and I work together on an article about dinosaurs, and we both put our names on it. Some ideas are mine, some are yours, I do some of the writing, you do some. That's a collaboration. The article is "by Amr and Dan." Suppose that while we're writing the article, we go a museum and ask the director if he can arrange for us to visit the workshops where dinosaur bones are mounted for display. He says "Yes, I'd be glad to, you can come visit Thursday afternoon." That's cooperation. He doesn't help write the article. He doesn't suggest any idea for the article. But he agrees to do something that helps us write the article. He is not listed as one of the article's authors. But in the article, somewhere, we will write "We are grateful for the cooperation of the Museum of Natural History for giving us access to the dinosaur workshop."

Collaboration means that multiple people are working together towards a common goal. So if you have a group project with several classmates, you all are collaborating.Teams often collaborate when creating a new thing or collectively deciding strategy. Cooperation can also be multiple people working together but it can be one-sided. If an employer requires people to submit to a background check, you are cooperating with their request. It's more so a demand but that's another story. Another example of cooperation is the fact that to accomplish my goals, I need some help from other departments. I work with them to make sure my work gets done but at the end of the day, whether or not it happens is not of their concern.

Collaboration is usually in business or music. They collaborated on the album. The play was a collaboration between the students and the faculty. Cooperation is between anyone. I was glad the kids cooperated to solve the problem. Your cooperation in listening to the emergency instructions is apreciated.