NNA: AON: ASSP: Facilitating increased engagement between the research communities of Greenland and the U.S.: Nuuk, Greenland - August 27-28, 2018

格陵兰岛是世界各地科学家的重要研究基地。由于其独特的自然环境和位于北美和欧洲之间的地理位置，美国在格陵兰岛有重要的研究存在。这种存在为加强与格陵兰研究界的双边合作提供了机会。在“促进参与”研讨会上，来自美国和格陵兰的主要北极研究人员将讨论并制定合作工作的指导方针和框架，包括知识共同生产、社区参与、土著观点以及学生培训和教育。这个研讨会有可能建立美国在国内和国际开展伦理研究的国家能力，特别是在土著家园开展的工作。结果还包括一个由来自美国和格陵兰的土著和非土著科学家组成的国际和多样化的网络。这将促进跨文化和跨学科的北极研究，包括土著观点，并满足国内外北极社区的需求。本次研讨会与美国国家科学基金会的战略目标1.2：推进研究实践相一致，该目标指出“美国国家科学基金会将促进一种广泛包容其人口和知识思想范围的研究文化，……在全球范围内参与，在国际范围内交流思想和合作的机会增加。美国国家科学基金会将通过国际交流和与工业界的合作，增加机会，扩大对美国研究生和早期职业研究人员的培训。“目前，许多美国科学家追求西方的研究模式，他们为此进行科学研究，但几乎没有与格陵兰的研究人员和社区接触。为了探索格陵兰的新研究模式，来自美国和格陵兰的20-24名研究人员将在格陵兰的努克举行为期两天的会议，共同开发一种双边合作研究、推广和教育模式，其中包括：1)美国和格陵兰研究团体成员的知识合作生产；2)增加社区参与和学生教育。参与者将代表一系列的研究学科、经验和背景。研讨会将包括介绍和讨论格陵兰岛的研究基础设施以及美国政府机构对北极研究的支持。参与者将在研讨会主题中分享和讨论个人经历。除了形成对未来合作感兴趣的研究人员的双边网络外，这些活动还将产生一份报告，其中包括美国和格陵兰研究界关于增加研究、推广和教育合作的优先事项和需求的一系列建议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Greenland is an important research site for scientists from around the world. Because of its unique physical environment and geographic location between North America and Europe, the United States has a significant research presence in Greenland. This presence provides opportunities to strengthen bilateral cooperation with the research community of Greenland. At the ''Facilitating Engagement'' workshop leading Arctic researchers from the U.S. and Greenland will discuss and develop guidelines and frameworks for cooperative work, including knowledge co-production, community engagement, Indigenous perspectives, and student training and education. This workshop has the potential to build the national capacity of the U.S. for conducting ethical research in domestic and international locations, particularly when work is undertaken in Indigenous homelands. Outcomes also include an international and diverse network of Indigenous and non-indigenous scientists from the U.S. and Greenland. This will facilitate cross-cultural and interdisciplinary Arctic research that includes Indigenous perspectives and meets the needs of Arctic communities at home and abroad. This workshop aligns with NSF's Strategic Objective 1.2: Advance the Practice of Research, which states ''NSF will promote a research culture that is broadly inclusive in its demography and range of intellectual ideas,...is globally engaged, with increased opportunities for exchanging ideas and collaborating on an international scale. NSF will increase opportunities for broadening the training of U.S. graduate students and early-career researchers through international exchanges and partnerships with industry.''Currently, many U.S. scientists pursue a Western model of research, for which they conduct science but have little, if any, contact with Greenlandic researchers and communities. To explore a new model for research in Greenland, 20-24 researcher from the U.S. and Greenland will meet for two days in Nuuk, Greenland to co-develop a bilateral model for collaborative research, outreach, and education that involves: 1) knowledge co-production by members of the U.S. and Greenlandic research communities and 2) increased community engagement and student education. Participants will represent a range of research disciplines, experiences, and backgrounds. The workshop will include presentations and discussions about research infrastructure in Greenland and U.S. government agency support of Arctic research. Participants will share and discuss personal experiences within the workshop topics. In addition to forming a bilateral network of researchers who have an interest in future collaborations, these activities will lead to a report that includes a set of recommendations from the U.S. and Greenlandic research communities about priorities and needs for increased research, outreach, and education collaborations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.