Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Technology-Empowered Communities of Recovery (TECOR)

规划补助金：技术赋能康复社区工程研究中心（TECOR）

• 批准号: 1840399
• 负责人: Siddhartha Sikdar
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840399&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have significant negative consequences for the affected individuals, their families and communities, as well as society due to the significant public health and economic burden. While the opioid epidemic currently ravaging communities throughout the US has garnered national attention, SUDs are a long-standing challenge, involve a variety of substances, and are expected to be of societal concern for the foreseeable future. In recent years, there has been a marked shift towards a solution-oriented recovery paradigm for addressing SUDs that emphasizes non-clinical alternatives to treatment, early identification of at-risk behavior, post-treatment monitoring and relapse prevention, and sustaining long-term recovery through strengthening community networks. In such a paradigm, engineering approaches can address important gaps in knowledge and build capacity for preventing relapse and maintaining recovery. In this planning grant, George Mason University and our partners seek to conduct the planning activities necessary to create a powerful and impactful Engineering Research Center (ERC) focused on empowering communities of recovery around individuals with SUDs using engineered systems to achieve measurable improvements in long-term health and wellness. The proposed planning activities will engage students from diverse backgrounds, such as neuroscience, psychology, nursing, computer science, electrical engineering and bioengineering to work together using a convergence approach to tackle a significant societal challenge.The objectives of this ERC planning grant are to: (1) strengthen relationships between academic partners and SUDs stakeholder communities, (2) form a diverse, multidisciplinary ERC team, a high-performing executive leadership team, and a robust, community-engaged governance structure to guide implementation of the ERC programmatic activities across all four foundational elements (Research, Workforce Development, Culture of Inclusion, Innovation Ecosystem) and (3) develop a comprehensive strategic framework, building around a collective vision for supporting technology-empowered communities of recovery. The planning grant team will formulate a number of hypotheses about current barriers and gaps in research knowledge, and engineering approaches that can be used to address these gaps. We will then iteratively update these hypotheses and solutions based on analysis of collected evidence from stakeholders and develop a framing paper. We will organize a strategic planning retreat with key stakeholders to develop a research agenda. Based on the identified research agenda, we will identify an appropriate ERC leadership team and organize a national symposium to refine the motivating vision and critical needs. The anticipated benefits of the planning grant will include a coordination of efforts across different communities, identification of stakeholder needs and priorities with long-, mid- and near-term impact, documentation of best practices and development of a convergent multi-system framework for addressing the underlying challenges using an engineered system approach at multiple scales, from individuals, family and caregivers, and community support networks.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.

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞争的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。物质使用障碍（SUD）对受影响的个人，他们的家庭和社区，以及社会有显着的负面影响，由于显着的公共卫生和经济负担。虽然目前肆虐美国各地社区的阿片类药物流行病引起了全国的关注，但SUD是一个长期存在的挑战，涉及各种物质，预计在可预见的未来将引起社会关注。近年来，有一个明显的转变，以解决为导向的恢复模式，以解决SUD，强调非临床替代治疗，早期识别高危行为，治疗后监测和复发预防，并通过加强社区网络维持长期恢复。在这种模式下，工程方法可以填补知识方面的重要空白，并建立防止复发和维持恢复的能力。在这个规划补助金，乔治梅森大学和我们的合作伙伴寻求进行必要的规划活动，以创建一个强大的和有影响力的工程研究中心（ERC），重点是围绕使用工程系统的SUD个人授权恢复社区，以实现长期健康和健康的可衡量的改善。拟议的规划活动将吸引来自不同背景的学生，如神经科学，心理学，护理学，计算机科学，电气工程和生物工程，共同努力，使用融合的方法来应对重大的社会挑战。ERC规划补助金的目标是：（1）加强学术合作伙伴和SUD利益相关者社区之间的关系，（2）组建多元化，多学科的ERC团队，一个高绩效的行政领导团队，以及一个强有力的、社区参与的治理结构，以指导在所有四个基本要素中实施ERC计划活动（研究，劳动力发展，包容文化，创新生态系统）和（3）制定全面的战略框架，围绕着支持技术赋权的恢复社区的集体愿景而建设。规划补助金团队将制定一些关于当前研究知识的障碍和差距的假设，以及可用于解决这些差距的工程方法。然后，我们将根据对从利益相关者收集的证据的分析，迭代地更新这些假设和解决方案，并制定框架文件。我们将与主要利益相关者组织一次战略规划务虚会，以制定研究议程。根据确定的研究议程，我们将确定一个适当的ERC领导团队，并组织一次全国研讨会，以完善激励愿景和关键需求。规划补助金的预期效益将包括协调不同社区的努力，确定利益攸关方的需求和具有长期、中期和近期影响的优先事项，记录最佳做法，并制定一个融合的多系统框架，以便在个人、家庭和照顾者的多个层面上使用工程系统方法应对根本挑战，该奖项反映了NSF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。