2021 Germination Investigator Workshop

EFMA萌芽计划旨在促进新方法、平台和环境的发展和实施，以培养学者制定具有社会影响力的研究问题。该奖项将为在美国国家科学基金会举办的为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将召集由萌芽计划资助的团队以及其他学术利益相关者（包括高级领导和个人研究人员）分享他们在萌芽资助的研究中获得的成果。研讨会建立在之前的萌芽研究者会议的基础上，目的是推动信息交流和促进社区建设。计划中的研讨会将把发芽奖获得者和其他利益相关者聚集在一起，反思他们的项目如何促进了变革性研究问题的形成。研讨会的主要目标包括：1)分享发芽项目的成果和积极的策略。2)比较不同项目所采取的策略。3)考虑评估发芽方法结果的机制和指标。4)在萌芽奖获得者之间建立社区并支持合作，特别强调识别知识差距和合作机会。召集来自发芽项目的代表提供了一个独特的机会，可以综合他们对当前高等教育和研究基础设施所固有的多方面挑战的知识。本次研讨会将有助于建立一个从业者社区，致力于设计新的学习框架、平台和/或环境，以培训学者制定具有实质性社会影响潜力的研究问题。重要的是，参与者将既代表以白人为主的机构，也代表为少数族裔服务的机构，从而扩大讨论的可能影响。通过催化解决紧迫的社会挑战和需求的研究方向，发芽方法的成功扩展和实施为更广泛的影响提供了重要的机会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 EFMA Germination program seeks to promote the development and implementation of novel approaches, platforms, and environments for training academics to formulate societally impactful research questions. This award will provide support for a two-day workshop to be held at the National Science Foundation, which will convene teams funded through the Germination program together with other academic stakeholders (including senior leadership and individual researchers) to share the results obtained in their Germination-funded research. The workshop builds upon prior Germination investigator meetings with the aim of propelling information exchange and furthering community building.The planned workshop will bring together Germination awardees and other stakeholders to reflect on how their projects have facilitated the formulation of transformative research questions. Primary objectives of the workshop include:1) Share the outcomes and positive strategies of Germination projects.2) Compare the strategies taken by different projects.3) Consider mechanisms and metrics for evaluating outcomes of Germination approaches.4) Build community and support collaboration among Germination awardees, with a specific emphasis on identifying both knowledge gaps and collaboration opportunities.Assembling representatives from the Germination projects offers a unique opportunity to synthesize their knowledge of the multifaceted challenges inherent in current higher education and research infrastructures. This workshop will assist in building a community of practitioners committed to designing new learning frameworks, platforms, and/or environments for training academics to formulate research questions with substantive potential for societal impact. Importantly, participants will represent both predominantly white institutions and minority-serving institutions broadening the likely impact of discussions. Successful scaling and implementation of Germination approaches offers significant opportunity for broader impacts through catalysing research directions that address pressing societal challenges and needs.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.