2021 Germination Investigator Workshop

EFMA萌芽计划旨在促进开发和实施新的方法、平台和环境，以培训学者制定具有社会影响力的研究问题。该奖项将为在国家科学基金会举办的为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该基金会将召集通过种子萌发计划资助的团队与其他学术利益攸关方(包括高级领导层和个人研究人员)分享其由种子萌发资助的研究取得的成果。该讲习班建立在以前发芽调查员会议的基础上，目的是促进信息交流和促进社区建设。计划中的讲习班将使发芽获得者和其他利益攸关方聚集在一起，反思他们的项目如何促进提出变革性的研究问题。研讨会的主要目标包括：1)分享萌发项目的成果和积极的战略2)比较不同项目采取的战略。3)考虑评估萌发方法成果的机制和衡量标准。4)建立社区并支持发芽获得者之间的合作，特别强调确定知识差距和合作机会。召集萌发项目的代表提供了一个独特的机会，以综合他们对当前高等教育和研究基础设施所固有的多方面挑战的知识。该讲习班将有助于建立一个实践者社区，致力于设计新的学习框架、平台和/或环境，以培训学者制定具有重大社会影响潜力的研究问题。重要的是，参与者将代表以白人为主的机构和为少数群体服务的机构，这扩大了讨论的可能影响。萌发方法的成功推广和实施通过促进解决紧迫的社会挑战和需求的研究方向，为更广泛的影响提供了重要的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The EFMA Germination program seeks to promote the development and implementation of novel approaches, platforms, and environments for training academics to formulate societally impactful research questions. This award will provide support for a two-day workshop to be held at the National Science Foundation, which will convene teams funded through the Germination program together with other academic stakeholders (including senior leadership and individual researchers) to share the results obtained in their Germination-funded research. The workshop builds upon prior Germination investigator meetings with the aim of propelling information exchange and furthering community building.The planned workshop will bring together Germination awardees and other stakeholders to reflect on how their projects have facilitated the formulation of transformative research questions. Primary objectives of the workshop include:1) Share the outcomes and positive strategies of Germination projects.2) Compare the strategies taken by different projects.3) Consider mechanisms and metrics for evaluating outcomes of Germination approaches.4) Build community and support collaboration among Germination awardees, with a specific emphasis on identifying both knowledge gaps and collaboration opportunities.Assembling representatives from the Germination projects offers a unique opportunity to synthesize their knowledge of the multifaceted challenges inherent in current higher education and research infrastructures. This workshop will assist in building a community of practitioners committed to designing new learning frameworks, platforms, and/or environments for training academics to formulate research questions with substantive potential for societal impact. Importantly, participants will represent both predominantly white institutions and minority-serving institutions broadening the likely impact of discussions. Successful scaling and implementation of Germination approaches offers significant opportunity for broader impacts through catalysing research directions that address pressing societal challenges and needs.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.