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、跨学科和跨地缘政治边界的创新和协同伙伴关系，以推进科学、技术和政策。合作，国际，大规模，跨学科研究的复杂奋进需要协调的支持和适应性的方法，以满足项目团队的不同需求。位于密歇根州立大学的美国国家科学基金会对话倡议中心支持NSF全球中心（GC）计划的获奖者在这奋进的努力。 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获奖者在战略上思考他们的中心内的沟通和管理跨学科，融合研究所需的过程。这个为期三年的项目旨在支持NSF GC计划的轨道1和轨道2获奖者，通过建立团队科学能力在每个项目以及跨项目的社区。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。年度社区建设会议将第1和第2轨道的GC获奖者聚集在一起，以支持围绕最佳实践的资源共享和知识建设，以促进国际，跨学科，合作研究背景下的使用启发式研究和教育，多方利益相关者参与和劳动力发展。虚拟互动会议服务于GC获奖者的需求和利益，因为他们设计和维持他们的全球研究中心;他们提供了在年会之间持续学习和知识交流的机会，并利用跨群体研究者之间的关系。这些互动式会议还为每个小组提供了一个机会，通过参加一个以对话为基础的讲习班，加强其沟通和协作能力。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。

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.