NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing coastal resiliency in the Caribbean (PR, VI, FL)

NSF 发动机开发奖：提高加勒比地区的沿海弹性（PR、VI、FL）

• 批准号: 2306622
• 负责人: Miguel Velez-Rubio
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This NSF Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on redefining resiliency for coastal regions, developing new technology to ensure resiliency for future generations, and catalyzing economic development based on innovation in the Caribbean. This project addresses the increased coastal vulnerability, increases resiliency and sustainability, and informs policy while transforming the region into a vibrant green economic zone focused on climate-related intellectual property, manufacturing, and workforce development. At the heart of the region of service, Puerto Rico serves as a "living laboratory" for exploration and data-driven innovation; with a history of infrastructure for manufacturing, a university system with eleven campuses, and key military bases, the island is an ideal location. Key partnerships in the region form a robust network of expertise, research capabilities, student exchange, and investment. The multi-disciplinary approach to research and innovation will build a significant ecosystem for discovery to address climate threats in the Caribbean and catalyze a new economy to meet the need for coastal resiliency. The project's activities will be organized in six networks focused on facets of coastal vulnerability, including robust data collection, new designs to mitigate coastal erosion, increased biodiversity, renewable and sustainable energy, and policies to support resiliency. Each network will support the growth of four pillars (i) R & D on Coastal Resiliency for a better understanding of the variables of major hurricanes, climate change, and other factors, (ii) Innovation to drive employment, business start-up activity and an ownership economy, (iii) Workforce Development for a highly competitive, inclusive and diverse engineering workforce (leveraging micro-credentials in key strategic areas) related to resilient renewable energy, sustainable manufacturing, and federal contracting, as well as train first responders who can provide vital services, and (iv) Strategic Partnerships academic partners, industry groups, government entities, incubators and an existing will play critical roles in accelerating new technologies from the lab to the market. This project will promote technology transfer and the creation of new technologies related to sustainability and coastal resiliency based on the renewable energy-water nexus, microgrids, and data-driven system integration, seed cohorts of startups based on research outcomes and coordinate with regional and national early-stage investors and venture philanthropists committed to economic development in the region, ensuring maximum impact of research, supporting economic growth and expanding inclusion in the ownership economy--- and thus setting forward the path toward a full NSF Engine.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.

NSF区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是重新定义沿海地区的弹性，开发新技术以确保对后代的弹性以及基于加勒比海的创新而催化经济发展。该项目解决了沿海脆弱性的增加，提高了弹性和可持续性，并为政策提供了信息，同时将该地区转变为一个充满活力的绿色经济区，该地区集中在与气候相关的知识产权，制造业和劳动力发展上。在服务地区的核心，波多黎各是探索和数据驱动创新的“生活实验室”。该岛拥有有11个校园的大学系统，具有制造业的基础设施历史，该岛是理想的地理位置。该地区的主要合作伙伴关系构成了强大的专业知识，研究能力，学生交流和投资网络。多学科研究和创新方法将建立一个重要的生态系统，以解决加勒比海地区的气候威胁，并催化新的经济，以满足沿海弹性的需求。该项目的活动将在关注沿海脆弱性方面的六个网络中组织，包括强大的数据收集，减轻沿海侵蚀的新设计，增加的生物多样性，可再生和可持续的能源以及支持弹性的政策。每个网络将支持四个支柱（I）研发在沿海弹性方面的增长，以更好地理解主要飓风，气候变化和其他因素的变量，（ii）推动就业，业务启动活动和所有所有权经济和所有所有权的创新，（III）劳动力发展，高度竞争力和多样化的工程，以实现型号，型号，型号，型号，型号，型号，型号型号，型号型号，型号型号，型号的型号，以实现型号的型号，以实现型号的型号。能源，可持续制造业和联邦合同，以及可以提供重要服务的急救人员，以及（iv）战略合作伙伴学术合作伙伴，行业团体，政府实体，孵化器和现有的现有人物将在加速新技术中从实验室加速到市场中发挥关键作用。该项目将基于可再生能源水的联系，微电网以及数据驱动的系统整合，基于研究成果的种子群体以及与地区和国家早期投资者的最大发展，基于研究兴趣的经济发展，基于研究兴趣的经济发展，基于研究的新技术，以及与地区的经济发展相关联，该项目将促进技术转移和与可持续性和沿海弹性相关的新技术的创建，以及基于研究兴奋的新兴企业的种子群体，基于研究兴趣的新兴创业公司的种子群体，并与之协调经济---因此为通往完整的NSF发动机的道路迈进了道路。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持的。