RCN: Broader Impacts and Outreach Network for Institutional Collaboration (BIONIC)

RCN：更广泛的机构合作影响和外展网络 (BIONIC)

• 批准号: 1408736
• 负责人: Susan Renoe
• 金额: $ 49.96万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Broader; Impacts; Outreach; Network

This project supports the Broader Impacts and Outreach Network for Institutional Collaboration (BIONIC), a national Research Coordination Network of Broader Impacts to support professionals who assist researchers to design, implement, and evaluate the Broader Impacts activities for NSF proposals and awards. All NSF proposals are evaluated not only on the Intellectual Merit of the proposed research, but also on the Broader Impacts of the proposed work, such as societal relevance, educational outreach, and community engagement. Many institutions have begun employing Broader Impacts support professionals, but in most cases, these individuals have not worked as a group to identify and share best practices. As a consequence, there has been much duplication of effort. Through coordination, BIONIC is expected to improve efficiency, reduce redundancy, and have significant impact in several areas: 1) Researchers will benefit from an increased understanding of the Broader Impacts merit review criterion and increased access to collaborators who can help them design, implement, and evaluate their Broader Impacts activities; 2) Institutions and research centers will increase their capacity to support Broader Impacts via mentoring for Broader Impacts professionals and consulting on how to build Broader Impacts support infrastructure, with attention to inclusion of non-research-intensive universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institutions that may not have the resources to support an institutional Broader Impacts office; and 3) NSF, itself, will benefit from a systematic and consistent approach to Broader Impacts that will lead to better fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion by researchers, better evaluation of Broader Impacts activities by reviewers and program officers, and a system for evaluating the effectiveness of Broader Impacts activities in the aggregate, as mandated by Congress and the National Science Board. Through its many planned activities, BIONIC will ultimately help advance the societal aims that the Broader Impacts merit review criterion was meant to achieve. The main goals of the project will be accomplished through the four specific objectives: 1) Identify and curate promising models, practices, and evaluation methods for the Broader Impacts community; 2) Expand engagement in, and support the development of, high-quality Broader Impacts activities by educating current and future faculty and researchers on effective practices; 3) Develop the human resources necessary for sustained growth and increased diversity of the Broader Impacts community; and 4) Promote cross-institutional collaboration and dissemination for Broader Impacts programs, practices, models, materials, and resources. BIONIC will facilitate collaborative Broader Impacts work across institutions, help leverage previously developed resources, support professional development, and train new colleagues to enter into the Broader Impacts field. This project will improve the quality and sustainability of Broader Impacts investments, as researchers continue to create unique and effective activities that are curated and broadly disseminated. BIONIC will create a network designed to assist NSF-funded researchers at their institutions in achieving the goals of the Broader Impacts Review Criterion. In so doing, BIONIC will promote Broader Impacts activities locally, nationally, and internationally and help to advance the Broader Impacts field.This award is co-funded by the Divisions of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and Emerging Frontiers in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and by the Division of Chemistry in the Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

该项目支持机构合作的更广泛影响和外展网络 (BIONIC)，这是一个国家更广泛影响研究协调网络，旨在支持协助研究人员设计、实施和评估 NSF 提案和奖项的更广泛影响活动的专业人员。 所有 NSF 提案不仅会根据拟议研究的智力价值进行评估，还会根据拟议工作的更广泛影响进行评估，例如社会相关性、教育推广和社区参与。许多机构已经开始雇用更广泛影响力的支持专业人员，但在大多数情况下，这些人并没有作为一个团队来识别和分享最佳实践。结果，出现了很多重复的工作。 通过协调，BIONIC 预计将提高效率，减少冗余，并在几个领域产生重大影响：1）研究人员将受益于对更广泛影响价值评审标准的更多了解，并增加与能够帮助他们设计、实施和评估其更广泛影响活动的合作者的联系； 2) 机构和研究中心将通过对更广泛影响专业人员进行指导和就如何建立更广泛影响支持基础设施提供咨询，提高支持更广泛影响的能力，并注意纳入可能没有资源支持机构更广泛影响办公室的非研究密集型大学、传统黑人学院和大学以及西班牙裔和少数族裔服务机构； 3) NSF 本身将受益于系统性和一致的更广泛影响方法，这将导致研究人员更好地满足更广泛影响标准，审稿人和项目官员更好地评估更广泛影响活动，以及按照国会和国家科学委员会的要求建立评估更广泛影响活动总体有效性的系统。通过其许多计划的活动，BIONIC 最终将帮助推进更广泛影响价值评审标准旨在实现的社会目标。该项目的主要目标将通过四个具体目标来实现：1）为更广泛的影响社区识别和策划有前途的模型、实践和评估方法； 2) 通过对当前和未来的教师和研究人员进行有效实践教育，扩大对高质量更广泛影响活动的参与并支持其发展； 3) 开发更广泛影响社区持续增长和增加多样性所需的人力资源； 4) 促进跨机构合作和传播更广泛的影响计划、实践、模型、材料和资源。 BIONIC 将促进跨机构的更广泛影响的协作工作，帮助利用以前开发的资源，支持专业发展，并培训新同事进入更广泛的影响领域。随着研究人员继续开展精心策划和广泛传播的独特而有效的活动，该项目将提高更广泛影响投资的质量和可持续性。 BIONIC 将创建一个网络，旨在协助其机构内 NSF 资助的研究人员实现更广泛影响审查标准的目标。在此过程中，BIONIC 将在当地、国家和国际范围内促进更广泛的影响活动，并帮助推进更广泛的影响领域。该奖项由生物科学理事会的分子和细胞生物科学和新兴前沿部门以及数学和物理科学理事会的化学部门共同资助。