EAGER: Facilitating International Collaboration to Advance Engineering Research

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）建立了工程研究中心（ERC）计划，以促进合作，跨学科，创新的工程研究和教育。目前，NSF的ERC计划的目标之一是探索如何在美国和国际上扩大有意义的中心对中心的合作。 发展机会，在美国和国际研究领导人和资助机构的工作人员之间的人，协作学习有可能通过识别和优先考虑共同利益，并通过跨中心和机构建立关系的机会，以增加这种合作。通过该项目，VentureWell将与NSF和ERC社区合作，探索和开发国际中心对中心合作的新方法，特别是通过召集美国和国际中心级工程研究社区、科学机构和相关领域专家。VentureWell将为这些活动带来连续性，并与主要利益相关者密切合作，制定和实施一项战略，探索和制定增加国际中心对中心合作的方法。VentureWell将组织的研讨会将促进对加强国际中心间合作的条件的理解，并确定有效的方法和机制，为这些高绩效科学中心之间富有成效的合作和联系创造条件。最后，VentureWell将总结和综合这些活动的结果，包括最佳实践、经验教训、成功和挑战，以便从这些活动中学习可以为未来的工作提供信息。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。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) established the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) program in order to advance collaborative, interdisciplinary, innovative engineering research and education. Currently, one of NSF's objectives for the ERC program is to explore how meaningful center-to-center collaboration within the US and internationally may be expanded. Developing opportunities for in-person, collaborative learning between US and international research leaders and funding agency staff has the potential to increase such collaboration through the identification and prioritization of common interests, and through opportunities for relationship building across centers and agencies. Ultimately, the goal of these efforts is to increase and enhance engineering research.Through this project, VentureWell will work with NSF and the ERC community to explore and develop new approaches to international center-to-center collaboration, specifically through convenings of the US and international center-level engineering research communities, science agencies, and relevant domain experts. VentureWell will bring continuity to these activities and work closely with key stakeholders in developing and implementing a strategy for exploring and developing approaches to increasing international center-to-center collaboration. The workshops VentureWell will organize will advance understanding of the conditions that enable increased international center-to-center collaboration and identify efficient approaches and mechanisms to set the conditions for fruitful collaboration and connections among these high-performing science centers. Finally, VentureWell will summarize and synthesize findings from these activities, including best practices, lessons learned, successes, and challenges so that learnings from these activities can inform future work.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.