EAGER: Exploratory research on the dynamics of convergence in interdisciplinary teams

TDI团队建议开展融合研究，这将有助于增长融合研究（GCR）和其他以融合为重点的项目明确不同类型融合的独特特征，并为未来的获奖者提供更多指导。TDI团队将直接与GCR获奖者合作，通过以项目为重点的研讨会，帮助他们实现他们的融合文化。该项目将包括旨在将趋同与整合和跨学科联系起来的理论研究，以及旨在确定在资助项目中实施趋同的不同方式的实证研究。这项研究将把融合文献与融合和跨学科文献更紧密地联系起来，也将帮助那些在GCR、其他NSF项目以及其他领域从事融合研究的人更明确地设计和交付融合。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。

The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI) team proposes to conduct research on convergence which will help Growing Convergence Research (GCR) and other convergence-focused programs crystallize unique features of different types of convergence and provide more guidance to future awardees. TDI team will work directly with GCR awardees through project-focused Toolbox workshops to help them realize their convergence cultures. They will also make the online resources curated by TDI available to all GCR awardees and more broadly to other individuals and teams conducting convergence research.The project will include theoretical research designed to relate convergence to integration and cross-disciplinarity, and empirical research to identify different ways in which convergence is operationalized across funded projects. This research will connect the convergence literature more closely with the literature on integration and cross-disciplinarity, and it will also assist those pursuing convergence research in GCR, other NSF programs, and beyond to be more explicit in designing and delivering convergence.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.