EAGER: Integrated Team Science Curriculum Development & Support for the Convergence Accelerator Program

该项目将支持开发和交付一个新的团队科学课程的融合加速器计划。融合加速器是NSF的一项新努力，旨在加速国家重要领域的使用启发式融合研究。最棘手的挑战需要来自不同学科的专业知识的协作融合和不同类型组织之间的伙伴关系-融合！融合加速器方法的关键是为受资助团队提供量身定制的课程。该课程的一个关键部分是“团队科学”。该课程的团队科学元素的目标是促进融合团队的发展和有效性。受资助的团队都是高度跨学科的，并吸收了不同类型组织的专门知识，但为了有效地开展项目-并真正趋同-受赠方团队需要有效和迅速地沟通与合作。由于第一阶段融合加速器奖励的持续时间只有9个月，因此团队快速建立沟通和协作技能尤为重要。该项目扩展了国家科学基金会以前成功支持的工作，由国际科学基金会对话倡议（TDI），导致TDI的专业发展工具，已被用于自2005年以来在世界各地的350多个研讨会，以帮助研究人员提高他们的跨学科团队内的合作能力。它还建立在为第一批融合加速器受赠者提供的有效培训培训师研讨会的基础上。该项目将扩展团队科学对话的努力，以创建一个更全面的团队科学沟通和协作课程。该项目将促进开展培训工作，将协作的“社会-关系”和“认知-认识”两个方面结合起来。该项目将通过与另外两名专家协调团队科学课程来实现这一目标。该项目将产生新的知识和方法，以促进有可能促进项目创新的富有成效的协作环境。该项目的更广泛影响包括提高融合加速器受资助团队的效率。通过帮助参与课程的团队快速识别和解决差异，这些团队将更有能力开发对美国人民产生积极影响的转化研究产品。该项目还将开发在线资源，如视频和网络研讨会，然后可以与Convergence Accelerator计划以外的团队进行共享。进一步的成果预计将包括可推广的知识，将告知有效的专业发展，在团队科学和收敛research.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

This project will support the development and delivery of a novel team science curriculum for the Convergence Accelerator program. The Convergence Accelerator is a new effort at NSF to accelerate use-inspired convergence research in areas of national importance. The most vexing challenges require collaborative melding of expertise from different disciplines and partnership among different kinds of organizations – convergence! Essential to the Convergence Accelerator’s approach is a tailored curriculum provided to grantee teams. A crucial part of that curriculum is “Team Science.” The goal of the team science elements of the curriculum is to facilitate convergence team development and effectiveness. The funded teams are all highly interdisciplinary and incorporate expertise from different types of organizations, but in order to be effective in their projects – and truly convergent – grantee teams need to communicate and collaborate effectively and rapidly. Because Phase I Convergence Accelerator awards are only 9 months in duration, it is particularly important that teams build their communication and collaboration skills rapidly. This project expands upon previous successful NSF-supported work by the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI) that has resulted in TDI’s professional development tools that have been used at more than 350 workshops around the world since 2005 to help researchers enhance their capacity for collaboration within cross-disciplinary teams. It also builds upon an effective train-the-trainer workshop provided to the first cohort of Convergence Accelerator grantees. The project will extend the Toolbox Dialogue effort to create an even more comprehensive Team Science communication and collaboration curriculum. The project will facilitate development of a training effort that integrates “social-relational” as well as “cognitive-epistemic” dimensions of collaboration. The project will do this by coordinating team science curricular offerings with two other experts. The project will result in new knowledge about and methods for facilitating productive collaborative environments that is likely to foster project innovation. The broader impacts of this project include increasing the effectiveness of Convergence Accelerator grantee teams. By helping the teams that participate in the curriculum to rapidly identify and resolve differences, those teams will be more able to develop translational research products that positively impact the American people. The project will also develop online resources such as videos and webinars which can then be adapted to share with teams beyond the Convergence Accelerator program. Further outcomes are expected to include generalizable knowledge that will inform effective professional development in team science and convergence research broadly.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.