Planning Grant - South Africa Partnership

规划补助金 - 南非合作伙伴

• 批准号: 0210204
• 负责人: Willie Pearson
• 金额: $ 5.4万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-02-01 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0210204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; South; Africa; Partnership

This award supports a U.S.-South Africa planning meeting for an international social science workshop to foster collaborative research and education. The planning meeting will take place in Pretoria, South Africa in January 2002. Seven U.S. participants in the planning group wish to establish a more coherent and better coordinated international social science agenda, including a focus on research, education, and training. If successful, the goal is to expand the collaboration to include other countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.The organizer of the planning meeting, Willie Pearson, Jr. of Georgia Tech, will work with his counterpart in South Africa, Tyron Pretorius of the University of the Western Cape. An organizing committee will be comprised of an equal number of representatives from the U.S. and South Africa. Over the course of five days, the group will determine appropriate location, time, and topics for a workshop to be held in late 2002 or early 2003.. While in South Africa, the group plans to meet with members of the academic (primarily social science faculty), business, and government funding communities. This will allow for the discussion to be placed in a broader societal context as it relates to policies and practices that address issues of innovation, economic development, social welfare and workforce development. These discussions will serve a vital function by permitting the committee members to gain a deeper understanding of the most significant social science related issues in South Africa. The planning meeting will serve as the beginning of a dialogue (both electronic and verbal) among the organizing committee members. The end product of the planning meeting will be a workshop. The resulting collaboration and partnerships will enhance discovery and understanding between the U.S. and South Africa while promoting teaching, training, access to higher education, and curriculum reform.

该奖项支持美国-南非举办国际社会科学讲习班规划会议，以促进合作研究和教育。 规划会议将于2002年1月在南非的比勒陀利亚举行。 该规划小组的七位美国参与者希望建立一个更加一致和协调的国际社会科学议程，包括重点关注研究，教育和培训。 如果成功的话，我们的目标是扩大合作范围，包括非洲、加勒比海和南美洲的其他国家。格鲁吉亚理工学院的教授将与南非西开普大学的Tyron Pretorius合作。 组委会将由来自美国和南非的同等数量的代表组成。 在五天的时间里，该小组将确定将于2002年底或2003年初举行的讲习班的适当地点、时间和主题。 在南非期间，该小组计划与学术界（主要是社会科学系）、商界和政府资助界的成员会面。 这将使讨论能够置于更广泛的社会背景下，因为它涉及解决创新、经济发展、社会福利和劳动力发展问题的政策和做法。 这些讨论将发挥重要作用，使委员会成员能够更深入地了解南非最重要的社会科学相关问题。规划会议将作为组委会成员之间对话（电子和口头）的开始。 规划会议的最终产品将是一个讲习班。 由此产生的合作和伙伴关系将加强美国和南非之间的发现和理解，同时促进教学，培训，接受高等教育和课程改革。