Proposal for Travel Grant to Promote International Collaboration

促进国际合作的旅行补助金提案

• 批准号: EP/E026680/1
• 负责人: Phill Dickens
• 金额: $ 6.16万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE026680%2F1
• 关键词: Proposal; Travel; Grant; Promote; International

In the past there have been various attempts to have joint programmes with EPSRC and other international funding bodies, such as NSF, but there has been a problem of 'double jeopardy' with two proposals. If one of the proposals was rejected by a funding body then collaboration would be difficult.The aim of this initiative is to determine procedures for international collaboration that will lead to joint funded research.Staff from Loughborough University's IMCRC will visit the NSF Design and Manufacturing Innovation grantees conference (July 2006, Saint Louis, Missouri) to meet with existing NSF grant holders to discuss collaborative work and make plans for future proposals. There will also be further discussions with NSF staff to plan an initial joint programme and to prepare the details of the proposal assessment process. The Construction members of the IMCRC will link to potential collaborators at the Construction Industry Institute Conference in San Diego, California to discuss possible plans for collaborative research and determine which is the most appropriate funding body in the USA, in the case that it is not NSF. A group of manufacturing staff will visit Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology towards the end of September 2006, to observe the work being undertaken, meet local industry partners and to establish a formal collaborative programme. Once the pilot projects are running then it will be necessary for the researchers to visit their counterparts. It is anticipated that 30 researchers will visit overseas for a week at a time.

过去曾有过与EPSRC和其他国际资助机构（如NSF）建立联合项目的各种尝试，但是存在两个提案的“双重危险”问题。如果其中一项提案被资助机构拒绝，那么合作将会很困难。这项倡议的目的是确定国际合作的程序，从而导致联合资助的研究。拉夫堡大学IMCRC的工作人员将访问NSF设计和制造创新受资助人会议（2006年7月，密苏里州圣路易斯），与现有的NSF资助人会面，讨论合作工作并制定未来提案的计划。还将与国家科学基金会的工作人员进一步讨论，计划初步的联合项目，并准备提案评估过程的细节。IMCRC的建筑成员将在加州圣地亚哥的建筑工业协会会议上与潜在的合作者联系，讨论合作研究的可能计划，并确定在美国哪个是最合适的资助机构，如果它不是国家科学基金会的话。一队制造业人员将于2006年9月底访问新加坡制造技术学院，观察正在进行的工作，会见当地的工业伙伴，并制定正式的合作计划。一旦试点项目开始运行，那么研究人员就有必要拜访他们的同行。预计将有30名研究人员进行为期一周的海外访问。