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

该项目将支持为融合加速器计划开发和交付新的团队科学课程。融合加速器是美国国家科学基金会的一项新努力，旨在加速国家重要领域中受使用启发的融合研究。最令人头疼的挑战需要来自不同学科的专业知识的协作融合以及不同类型组织之间的伙伴关系--融合！融合加速器的基本方法是为受资助团队提供量身定制的课程。该课程的关键部分是“团队科学”。课程中团队科学元素的目标是促进融合、团队发展和有效性。资助的团队都是高度跨学科的，并融合了来自不同类型组织的专业知识，但为了在其项目中有效-并真正融合-受赠者团队需要有效和快速地沟通和协作。由于第一阶段融合加速器奖励的持续时间仅为9个月，因此团队迅速培养其沟通和协作技能尤为重要。该项目扩展了以前由NSF支持的工具箱对话倡议(TDI)成功的工作，这些工作产生了TDI的专业开发工具，自2005年以来已在世界各地的350多个研讨会上使用，以帮助研究人员增强他们在跨学科团队中的协作能力。它还建立在为第一批融合加速器受赠者提供有效的培训员培训讲习班的基础上。该项目将扩展工具箱对话的工作，以创建一个更全面的团队科学交流和协作课程。该项目将促进开展培训工作，将协作的“社会关系”和“认知-认知”层面结合起来。该项目将通过与另外两名专家协调团队提供的科学课程来实现这一点。该项目将产生关于促进生产性协作环境的新知识和新方法，这可能会促进项目创新。该项目的更广泛影响包括提高融合加速器授权团队的效率。通过帮助参与课程的团队迅速识别和解决分歧，这些团队将更有能力开发出对美国人民产生积极影响的翻译研究产品。该项目还将开发视频和网络研讨会等在线资源，然后可以调整这些资源，以便与融合加速器计划以外的团队共享。进一步的成果预计将包括概括的知识，这些知识将为团队科学和广泛的融合研究中的有效专业发展提供信息。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。

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.