Enhancing the Process of Network-to-Network Collaboration: A TDI-Facilitated PI Meeting for the AccelNet Program

在复杂的研究环境中，如研究网络网络，对过程的关注可能是确保朝着项目目标稳步推进的关键。工具箱对话倡议(TDI)将在华盛顿特区为国际网络对网络合作的新资助成员组织和提供一次会议，为开发其项目的关键组成部分提供一个早期的、有重点的机会。TDI将在会后与获奖者保持接触，以帮助促进通过团队反思和社会学习产生的想法的发展。会议的一个成果将是促进实践共同体的形成。会议还将扩大能力，以加强广泛分布的网络社区之间的复杂研究交流和合作。这次研讨会为新资助的项目成员提供参与旨在提高他们的协作和沟通能力的活动的机会，相互学习和先前队列的成员，听取专家的意见，并与NSF官员互动。研讨会参与者将代表加速通过国际网络到网络合作(AccelNet)项目资助的第二批项目。在上一次AccelNet项目会议的基础上，研讨会将包括有组织的团队反思和关于网络协调、专业发展和评估规划的社会学习。TDI团队将为参与团队制作报告和后续网络研讨会，旨在支持团队计划的制定和涉及团队成员的实践社区。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。

In complex research environments such as networks of research networks, attention to process can be crucial to ensuring steady progress toward project objectives. The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI) will organize and deliver a meeting in Washington DC for newly funded members of international network-to-network collaborations, providing an early, focused opportunity to develop key components of their projects. TDI will stay engaged with awardees after the meeting to help facilitate the development of ideas generated through team reflection and social learning. One outcome of the meeting will be the fostering of a community of practice. The meeting will also expand abilities to enhance complex research communication and collaboration among broadly distributed network communities.This workshop is to provide newly funded project members the opportunity to engage in activities designed to increase their collaborative and communicative capacity, learn from one another and members of the prior cohort, hear from experts, and interact with NSF officials. Workshop participants will represent the second cohort of funded projects in the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaboration (AccelNet) program. Building on the previous AccelNet project meeting, the workshop will include structured team reflection and social learning on planning for network coordination, professional development, and evaluation. The TDI team will produce reports for the participating teams and follow-up webinars designed to support the development of the teams’ plans and a community of practice involving members of the cohort.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.