Conference: Enhancing Capacity for Research and Partnerships at Emerging Research Institutions

该项目将通过为能力建设研讨会提供支持，为EPIIC申请人提供顾问和导师，并通过开发“复制工具包”来帮助复制和适应这一过程，从而支持EPIIC计划。该项目为新兴研究机构（ERIs）的研究人员和管理人员提供了一个独特的机会，使他们能够相互联系，并与更广泛的影响和研究发展方面的专家联系起来，以确定需要合作的领域和合作机会，并制定和提交合作研究提案，以加强ERIs的研究，并使ERIs的资助申请更具竞争力。该项目符合公众利益和NSF服务科学进步的使命；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；或通过以下几种方式扩大对NSF资助格局的参与，以确保国防安全：1)为100个eri提供支持，以确定互补其优势的合作机构和资源；2)创建一个复制工具包，以帮助其他人复制和适应创新的资助过程。这项工作最终将导致更公平的研究经费分配，允许所有机构的有才华的研究人员有更多的机会和能力为国家研究事业做出有意义的贡献。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 will support the EPIIC program by providing support for the capacity building workshops, providing consultants and mentors for EPIIC applicants, and by developing a "replication toolkit" to help replicate and adapt this process. The project represents a unique opportunity for researchers and administrators at Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) to join with one another and with experts in broader impacts and research development to identify areas of need and opportunities for collaboration as well as develop and submit collaborative research proposals with the goals of strengthening research at ERIs and more competitive grant applications from ERIs. This project serves the public interest and NSF’s mission to serve the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; or to secure the national defense by broadening participation in the NSF funding landscape in several ways: 1) providing support for 100 ERIs to identify partner institutions and resources that complement their strengths and 2) creating a Replication Toolkit to help others replicate and adapt innovative funding processes. This work will ultimately lead to more equitable distribution of research funds, allowing talented researchers at all institutions to have more access and ability to contribute meaningfully to the national research enterprise.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.