SUGI: Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative Food-Water-Energy Nexus Coordination

该项目由科罗拉多大学的未来地球全球秘书处中心领导，旨在协调和支持贝尔蒙特论坛关于食物-能源-水关系的可持续城市化合作研究行动全球倡议。该计划涉及北美、欧洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲和非洲的15个主要的国际跨学科研究团队：所有这些团队都致力于解决城市可持续发展挑战，这些挑战与粮食、水和能源系统的关键方面相交叉。这15个项目中有12个有美国合作伙伴或由美国领导。科罗拉多大学未来地球中心组织和开展的活动为跨项目整合提供了联系和支持，并为跨学科研究的最佳实践培训了科学家。工作还包括提供跨项目工作机制，以加强研究成果，支持跨团队综合活动，以及开发综合多媒体通信活动，向关键受众提供有针对性的通信产品。这项工作的更广泛影响包括增加从事可持续发展科学的大学生的多样性，为他们提供与贝尔蒙特论坛资助的食物-水-能源关系研究小组的多年参与计划。科罗拉多大学未来地球秘书处中心是一个帮助支持和协调跨学科研究团队工作的组织。该项目建立在中心已经建立的组织结构和在协调和将可持续发展研究科学转化为有影响力的传统和创新多媒体公共宣传材料方面取得的成功的基础上。在这个项目中，该中心将发挥其组织和人员优势，协调活动，并为贝尔蒙特论坛关于粮食-能源-水关系的可持续城市化合作研究行动全球倡议的15个研究团队提供重要的综合场所。科罗拉多未来地球中心将为研讨会和其他面对面的互动活动提供组织支持，以加强内部研究团队和跨项目沟通，以确保正在进行的研究产生最大的影响，并在研究团队之间传递信息和发现。协调工作包括调查，以确定在群体内部和群体之间产生共鸣的挑战和问题，以促进共享学习。由此产生的网络研讨会和研讨会创造了一个让各方参与并受益的学习论坛。该中心还提供跨学科研究和研究与政策共同发展的最佳实践方面的培训。该中心还将发挥促进作用，支持多达五项综合赠款，每项赠款支持多达三次综合会议。在最后一年，将举行一次研究小组的顶点会议，他们将报告和整合主要研究成果和经验教训。顶点事件还将用于从每个团队和项目整体的角度评估项目的有效性及其影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 project, led by the Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub at the University of Colorado, is to coordinate and support the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Initiative involves fifteen major, international, transdisciplinary, research teams with operations in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa: all working towards solutions on urban sustainability challenges that intersect with key aspects of food, water and energy systems. Twelve of the fifteen projects have a US partner or are US led. Activities organized and carried out by the University of Colorado Future Earth Hub provide connections and support that enables cross-project integration as well as training scientists in best practices in transdisciplinary research. Work also includes providing mechanisms for working across projects to strengthen research outcomes, supporting cross-team synthesis activities, and developing integrated multi-media communications campaigns to deliver targeted communication products to key audiences. Broder impacts of the work include increasing the diversity of university students engaged in sustainability science by providing them with a multiple year program of engagement with Belmont Forum-funded food-water-energy nexus research groups. The University of Colorado Hub of the Future Earth Secretariat is an organization that helps support and coordinate the work of transdisciplinary research teams. This project builds on the Hub's already-developed organizational structure and successes in coordinating and translating research science in sustainability into impactful traditional and innovative multimedia public outreach materials. For this project, the Hub will bring its organizational and staffing strengths to bear on coordinating activities and providing important synthesis venues for the fifteen research teams involved in the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Colorado Hub of Future Earth will provide organizational support for workshops and other in-person interaction events to enhance internal research team and cross-project communications to ensure the research being carried out has maximum impact and there is transmission of information and findings between research teams. Coordination efforts involve surveys to identify challenges and issues that resonate within and between groups to promote shared learning. Resulting webinars and workshops create a learning forum that involves and benefits all parties. The Hub also provides training in best practices in transdisciplinary research and the co-development of research and policy. The Hub, in its facilitation role, will also support up to five synthesis grants, with each award supporting up to three synthesis meetings. In the final year, a capstone meeting of the research teams will be held where they will report on and integrate key research findings and lessons learned. The capstone event will also be used to assess, from the perspective of each team and on the part of the project overall, the effectiveness of the program and its impact.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.