Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) Core B: Program Development (Pilot) Core

核心项目B的项目总结/摘要：项目开发（试点）核心项目 项目开发（试点）核心（以下简称“试点核心”）的总体目标是：（1）生成 在CAPS主题领域进行创新、跨学科、政策相关和跨机构研究的新路线; (2)加强以人口为基础的老龄化研究的人力资本，建立新兴和 代表性不足的学者;（3）促进研究，为确定的优先领域提供信息并作出反应， 国家执行机构，包括并特别是联合呼吁程序的专题领域。试点核心将通过四个方面实现其目标 具体目标。目标1是促进在CAPS标志性和交叉主题方面开展新的研究， 其他新出现的高度优先领域。CAPS试点项目计划是一个关键机制， CAPS领导团队将促进对CAPS专题领域和其他高度优先问题的科学研究， 通过该计划的年度提案征集明确寻求此类研究。目标2：鼓励 人口统计学和老龄化经济学的创新团队科学。该试点计划的年度呼吁， 提案将强调，这些特征是供资的主要评价标准之一。上限将 为形成协作团队提供了许多机会和支持。在试点核心中，这些支持 包括在CAPS年度会议上的指导会议和CAPS领导的定期可用性 在潜在申请人组建团队和起草提案时，与他们进行咨询和指导。目标3：培养 CAPS附属公司名单的规模和范围的战略增长。试点核心将部分实现这一目标， 与行政核心和传播核心协调，向非政府组织宣传试点方案， 在CAPS网站和通过策划的分发名单与广泛的接触，包括其他大学的附属学者 在纽约北部和其他国家情报局资助的中心和网络。目标4：加速研究和外部 CAPS子公司的融资成功。为了实现这一目标，试点核心将采取创新的，高度集成的 确保在试点项目的整个生命周期中有接触点的方法。试点调查人员将受益 从持续的指导，从如何制定一个有竞争力的试点方案开始，最终，如何扩展 一个成功的试点项目转化为一个有竞争力的外部赠款提案。试点核心将与 行政核心执行试点计划，每个核心都有一套明确的职责。 CAPS领导团队确定了四个重要的、创新的、方法严谨的试点项目 1年的提案。除了实现这些基本标准外，这些建议还支持：（1）每个CAPS （2）新兴学者，以帮助启动其外部资助的研究组合;（3）中期 职业学者谁拥有令人印象深刻的创新记录，外部资助，高影响力的人口- 基于研究，但对老龄科学相对较新的人;（4）由人口统计学家领导的项目的均匀组合 和经济学家;（5）在人口统计学和老龄化经济学方面代表性不足的科学家。

Project Summary/Abstract for Core B: Program Development (Pilot) Core The overarching objectives of the Program Development (Pilot) Core (hereafter “Pilot Core”) are to: (1) generate new lines of innovative, interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, and cross-institution research in CAPS thematic areas; (2) enhance human capital in population-based aging research and build the pipeline of emerging and underrepresented scholars; and (3) promote research that informs and responds to priority areas identified by NIA, including and especially CAPS thematic areas. The Pilot Core will accomplish its objectives through four specific aims. Aim 1 is to promote new lines of research in CAPS signature and cross-cutting themes as well as other emerging high-priority areas. The CAPS Pilot Project Program is a key mechanism through which the CAPS leadership team will stimulate scientific research on CAPS thematic areas and other high-priority issues, with such research explicitly sought through the program’s annual call for proposals. Aim 2 is to encourage innovative team science in the demography and economics of aging. The pilot program’s annual call for proposals will emphasize that such features are among the major evaluation criteria for funding. CAPS will provide many opportunities and supports for forming collaborative teams. In the Pilot Core, these supports include a mentoring session at the CAPS Annual Conference and regular availability of the CAPS leadership team to consult with and mentor prospective applicants as they form teams and draft proposals. Aim 3 is to foster strategic growth in the size and scope of the list of CAPS affiliates. The Pilot Core will achieve this aim in part by coordinating with the Administrative Core and the Dissemination Core to advertise the pilot program to non- affiliate scholars at CAPS sites and via curated distribution lists with a broad reach, including to other universities in Upstate New York and to other NIA-funded centers and networks. Aim 4 is to accelerate research and external funding success of CAPS affiliates. To achieve this aim, the Pilot Core will take an innovative, highly integrated approach that ensures touchpoints throughout the entire life cycle of a pilot project. Pilot investigators will benefit from sustained mentorship, starting with how to craft a competitive pilot proposal and, ultimately, how to extend a successful pilot project into a competitive external grant proposal. The Pilot Core will coordinate closely with the Administrative Core to implement the pilot program, with a clear set of responsibilities outlined in each core. The CAPS leadership team identified four significant, innovative, and methodologically rigorous pilot project proposals for Year 1. In addition to achieving those essential criteria, these proposals support: (1) each of CAPS thematic areas; (2) emerging scholars in order to help launch their externally funded research portfolios; (3) mid- career scholars who have impressive track records of innovative, externally funded, high-impact population- based research but who are relatively new to aging science; (4) an even mix of projects lead by demographers and economists; and (5) underrepresented scientists in the demography and economics of aging.