Civic Innovation Challenge 2022

与MetroLab Network的合作协议支持执行第二次公民创新挑战（CIVIC）计划，这是一项由社区优先事项驱动的国家研究和行动竞赛，由NSF与国土安全部和能源部共同支持。CIVIC旨在改变社区-大学的动态，优先考虑社区主导的伙伴关系，要求社区确定适合创新的公民优先事项，并与研究人员合作解决这些优先事项。CIVIC帮助弥合研究和部署之间的差距，确保研究是在允许现实测试和影响评估的背景下进行的，并在加速的1年时间轴上进行，以确保社区能够体验和分享试点的结果。这一挑战将使数据驱动、研究知情的社区能够让居民参与这一过程，并为更广泛、更流畅的研究兴趣和公民优先事项交流奠定基础，这将创造新的合作实例，同时引入新的技术和社会科学发现领域。MetroLab以多种方式支持这一努力。首先，MetroLab正在第一轮和当前一轮项目的项目团队中建立一个实践社区。在全国范围内开展首个此类项目的专家之间建立这个社区，促进了所有获奖项目的可持续性、可扩展性和可转让性。它还使受赠方能够以扩大项目成功和维持社区影响的方式相互学习。这个实践社区预计将超越CIVIC赠款的范围，并作为未来合作的平台。MetroLab还制作工具包和研讨会，以支持获奖的CIVIC团队，专注于社区参与，利益相关者分析和试点管理。MetroLab还支持整个拨款过程中团队成功的沟通和放大，此外还托管一个网站，展示由CIVIC计划支持的不断增长的公民研究工作组合。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。

This cooperative agreement with MetroLab Network supports the execution of the second iteration of the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) program, a national research and action competition driven by community priorities and supported by NSF together with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy. CIVIC aims to flip the community-university dynamic, prioritizing community-led partnership by asking communities to identify civic priorities ripe for innovation and to partner with researchers to address those priorities. CIVIC helps bridge the gap between research and deployment, ensuring that research is conducted in a context that allows for realistic testing and evaluation of impact, and on an accelerated 1-year timeline to ensure communities can experience and iterate on the results of the pilot. This challenge will enable data-driven, research-informed communities to engage residents in the process, and lay a foundation for a broader and more fluid exchange of research interests and civic priorities that will create new instances of collaboration while introducing new areas of technical and social scientific discovery. MetroLab supports this effort in multiple ways. First, MetroLab is building a Community of Practice among the project teams, from both the first and current round of the program. Building this community among experts working on first-of-its-kind projects across the country promotes the sustainability, scalability and transferability of all awarded projects. It further enables grantees to learn from each other in a way that will amplify project successes and sustain community impacts. This Community of Practice is expected to live on beyond the scope of the CIVIC grant and serve as a platform for future collaborations. MetroLab is also producing tool kits and workshops to support awarded CIVIC team, focusing on community engagement, stakeholder analysis, and pilot management. MetroLab also supports communications and amplification of team successes throughout the grant, in addition to hosting a website that showcases the growing portfolio of civic research work supported by the CIVIC program.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.