EAGER: Curriculum Development for I-Corps PNP Pilot Program

本项目的目的是探索如何调整现有的I-Corps课程（即I-Corps规范计划和I-Corps- l计划），以培训社会和行为科学家，使其与公共和非营利部门的政策渠道建立持续的工作关系。这项工作的最终目的是加强学术研究界与非营利和公共部门之间的专业知识、思想和发现的交流。一个由5名国家专家组成的小组，包括一名I-Corps培训协议专家，将参与现有的I-Corps项目，并观察每个I-Corps培训模块的交付情况。他们将利用在每个模块会议中获得的信息和知识来确定如何最好地适应现有的I-Corps培训项目，以用于政策和非营利机构。然后，该团队将进一步完善和调整现有的I-Corps培训项目，使其成为一个特殊的I-Corps政策和非营利（I-Corps- pnp）培训课程，该课程可以在未来由社会和行为科学家进行正式的试点测试。技术摘要本项目将确定I-Corps培训模式是否以及如何用于培训社会和行为科学家，以培养适当的技能，成功地将知识和专业知识转化为政策和非营利领域的实践。此外，它将探讨培训计划如何维持和支持社会和行为科学家与他们的政策和非营利同行之间富有成效的合作。各种资助来源（例如非营利组织、政府实体和私人基金会）采用这样的课程可能会给社会科学研究人员带来一个新的方向——一个对政策制定者和社区利益相关者面临的实际挑战敏感的方向。从长远来看，所创建的培训课程将(1)帮助社会和行为科学家成功地与政策和非营利社区的领导者接触，(2)促进学术界、公共政策制定者、科学家和创新者之间的伙伴关系的发展，从而更全面地反思和评估社会政策挑战的更多维度，以及如何最好地解决这些挑战。(3)培养反映社会和行为科学家的知识和专业知识的非营利创业能力；(4)增加关于潜在创新和政策选择的知识共享；(5)提高社会科学家创新产品的可及性；(6)促进更及时地向社会政策考虑提供研究和专业知识。

Non-Technical AbstractThe purpose of this proposed project is to explore how the existing I-Corps curriculum (i.e., the I-Corps canonical program and I-Corps-L program) can be adapted to train social and behavioral scientists to establish sustained working relationships with policy conduits in the public and nonprofit sectors. The ultimate aim of the work is to enhance the exchange of expertise, ideas, and discoveries between the academic research communities and the nonprofit and public sectors. A team of 5 national experts, including an expert in the I-Corps training protocol, will participate in the existing I-Corps programs and observe the delivery of each I-Corps training module. They will use the information and knowledge obtained during each module session to determine how best to adapt the existing I-Corps training programs for use in policy and nonprofit settings. The team will then further refine and adapt the existing I-Corps training programs into a special I-Corps Policy and Nonprofit (I-Corps-PNP) training curriculum that can be tested in a formal pilot with social and behavioral scientists in the future.Technical AbstractThis proposed project will determine whether, and how, the I-Corps training paradigm can be used to train social and behavioral scientists to develop the appropriate skills to successfully translate knowledge and expertise to contribute to the practices in policy and nonprofit arenas. In addition, it will explore how the training program may sustain and espouse fruitful collaborations between social and behavior scientists and their policy and nonprofit counterparts. The adoption of such a curriculum by a variety of funding sources (e.g. nonprofit, governmental entities, and private foundations) could result in a new orientation for social science researchers - one that is sensitive to the practical challenges faced by policymakers and community stakeholders. In the long term, the created training curriculum will (1) help social and behavioral scientists to engage successfully with leaders in the policy and nonprofit communities, (2) promote growth in partnerships between academia, public policymakers, scientists and innovators that can lead to more holistic reflection on, and assessment of, more dimensions of social policy challenges and how best to address them, (3) cultivate nonprofit entrepreneurial capacities that reflect the knowledge and expertise resident in social and behavioral scientists, (4) increase knowledge sharing about potential innovations and policy options available to policymakers, (5) improve accessibility to the products of innovation generated by social scientists, and (6) facilitate more timely delivery of research and expertise to social policy considerations.