Community Building and Team Science Support for the Global Centers Program

解决复杂的全球问题需要跨部门、学科和地缘政治边界的创新和协同伙伴关系，以推动科学、技术和政策。协作、国际、大规模、跨学科研究的复杂努力需要协调支持和适应性方法，以满足项目团队的不同需求。总部设在密歇根州立大学的工具箱对话倡议中心支持NSF全球中心(GC)计划的获奖者在这方面的努力。它提供协调的团队科学培训，以在项目的早期阶段建立团队凝聚力和动力。该项目支持GC获奖者对其中心内的沟通进行战略性思考，并管理跨学科、趋同研究所需的过程。这个为期三年的项目旨在通过在每个项目内以及跨项目的社区中建立团队科学能力来支持NSF GC计划的Track 1和Track 2获奖者。该项目的两个主要内容是：1)年度面对面社区建设会议；2)虚拟互动研讨会和讲习班。一年一度的社区建设会议将1号和2号轨道的GC获奖者聚集在一起，以支持资源共享和知识建设，在国际、跨学科、协作研究的背景下，围绕以使用为灵感的研究和教育、多方利益攸关方参与和劳动力发展的最佳实践。虚拟互动会议服务于GC获奖者在设计和维持其全球研究中心时的需求和兴趣；它们为年度会议之间的持续学习和知识交流提供机会，并利用不同研究人员之间的关系。这些互动会议还为每个小组提供了一个机会，通过参加以工具箱对话为基础的讲习班来加强其交流和协作能力。这些因素共同为研究人员提供了提高跨学科、国际研究合作的效率和有效性的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Addressing complex global issues requires innovative and synergistic partnerships across sectors, disciplines, and geo-political boundaries to advance science, technology, and policy. The complex endeavor of collaborative, international, large-scale, interdisciplinary research requires coordinated support and an adaptive approach to meet the varied needs of the project teams. The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative Center, based at Michigan State University, supports awardees of the NSF Global Centers (GC) Program in this endeavor. It provides coordinated team science training to build team cohesion and momentum in the early stage of their projects. This project supports GC awardees in thinking strategically about communication within their centers and in managing the processes required for interdisciplinary, convergent research.This three-year project aims to support Track 1 and Track 2 awardees of the NSF GC Program by building team science capacity within each project as well as community across projects. The two main elements of this project are: 1) annual, in-person, community-building meetings, and 2) virtual interactive seminars and workshops. The annual community-building meetings brings together GC awardees in Tracks 1 and 2 to support resource sharing and knowledge building around best practices for use-inspired research and education, multi-stakeholder engagement, and workforce development in the context of international, interdisciplinary, collaborative research. The virtual interactive sessions serve the needs and interests of the GC awardees as they design and sustain their global research centers; they provide opportunities for continuous learning and knowledge exchange between the annual meetings, and leverages relationships among investigators across cohorts. These interactive sessions also provide an opportunity for each team to strengthen its communicative and collaborative capacity through participation in a Toolbox dialogue-based workshop. Together these elements provide investigators with opportunities to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of interdisciplinary, international, research collaborations.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.