Using the EPIC model to build transdisciplinary communities of practice that effectively address urban resilience in Africa and Asia

该奖项为全球变化分析、研究和培训系统（START）提供支持。该组织是美国全球变化研究计划战略计划的重要组成部分，因为它与国际参与有关。他们的使命“增加研究、教育和培训的机会，加强发展中国家的科学能力，以理解、交流和激励对关键的全球变化挑战采取行动”，解决了美国全球变化研究计划的所有战略目标。该项目将促进对非洲和亚洲这两个世界上城市化速度最快的地区的全球环境变化和城市中心复原力的认识。START将与社区创新教育伙伴关系（EPIC）和联合国环境规划署全球适应网络合作，扩大EPIC模式，促进大学-社区参与。该模式旨在吸引来自不同学科和部门的大学教师，以确保与地方政府和社区合作的研究组成部分充分多样化和一体化，从而能够有效地解决快速发展的城市地区复杂问题的知识生成问题。该项目的变革潜力在于它能够将大学与地方政府和社区联系起来，跨学科地共同开发研究问题和具体解决复杂问题的方法。该项目具有产生重大社会效益的强大潜力，因为它本质上以通过与研究人员的参与为当地利益相关者和社区带来直接效益为中心。该项目旨在通过加强学术与决策之间的联系，加强大学向其所在社区提供的公共服务使命。该项目通过以实践为中心的课程，强调在实践中体验式学习，特别是对早期职业科学家，为大学生提供工作技能，使其参与社区共同开发的行动。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。

This award provides support to the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research, and Training (START). This organization is an essential component of the US Global Change Research Program strategic plan as it relates to international engagement. Their mission "to increase opportunities for research, education and training that strengthen scientific capacities in developing countries to understand, communicate and motivate action on critical global change challenges" addresses all of the US Global Change Research Program strategic goals. This project will advance knowledge of global environmental change and resilience in urban centers in the two fastest urbanizing regions of the world in Africa and Asia. START will work in conjunction with the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) and the United Nation’s Environment Program Global Adaption Network to expand EPIC model for university-community engagement. The model is designed to engage university faculty from across disciplines and departments to ensure that the research component of partnerships with local governments and communities is sufficiently diverse and integrated to be able to effectively address knowledge generation for complex problems in rapidly growing city-regions. The transformative potential of this project lies in its ability to link universities with local governments and communities in transdisciplinary co-development of research questions and approaches to concretely address complex problems. This project has strong potential for generating significant societal benefits because it is inherently centered around producing direct benefits to local stakeholders and communities through engagement with researchers. The project seeks to enhance the public-service mission that universities provide to the communities in which they are located through strengthening ties between academia and decision-making. This project emphasizes experiential learning by doing, particularly for early-career scientists, through hands-on learning-centered curricula that provides university students with workplace skills to engage communities in co-developed action.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.