AccelNet-Design: Connecting Sustainable Consumption and Production for Systems of Value-Retention (The Value Retention Exchange Network-of-Networks - VR(Ex)Change)

COVID-19疫情暴露了全球供应链和制成品生产的脆弱性，带来了社会和环境影响。通过探索实践以加强可持续消费、可持续生产和可持续发展之间的联系，VR（Ex）Change Network提高了全球制造和供应链的效率和可持续性。这个高度互动的网络提供早期职业论坛，教学孵化器，网络研讨会系列，培训和领导机会，以吸引来自世界各地的多元化，代表性不足和早期职业人士。来自不同地区，领域和部门的不同观点为应用研究和合作提供了机会。VR（Ex）Change增强了美国研究人员和专业人士在全球可持续发展和循环经济转型中的竞争力。VR（Ex）Change Network进行研究和分析，以支持可行和可持续的人类社区，并解决资源稀缺、环境退化和人类福祉等问题。成员利用情景分析，案例研究，景观研究和其他方法来研究关键主题：（1）普遍发展，生计和弹性社区;（2）从循环经济转向循环社会;（3）数字技术实现充足;（4）设计和文化变革作为安全生活方式的驱动力;（5）工作的未来和消费的作用。该合作提供了一种以解决方案为重点、以利益相关者为驱动的方法，从研究可持续消费和生产的统一方法中产生研究和应用。 使用专注于相互性和高阶学习的系统方法，该小组的产出包括一个促进网络未来发展的生产和消费转型整合的战略路线图。通过国际网络对网络合作加速研究（中网）该计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。该计划支持美国研究网络和海外互补网络之间的战略联系，这些网络将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大协调国际努力的重大科学挑战。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）资助。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 COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in global supply-chains and in the production of manufactured goods, with social and environmental impacts. Through collaborations that explore practices to increase connections among sustainable consumption, sustainable production, and sustainable development, the VR(Ex)Change Network increases efficiency and sustainability of global manufacturing and supply chains. This highly interactive network offers early-career fora, teaching incubators, webinar series, training and leadership opportunities, to engage diverse, underrepresented, and early-career individuals from around the world. Diverse perspectives, from across different regions, fields, and sectors inform opportunities for applied research and collaboration. The VR(Ex)Change enhances the competitiveness of U.S. researchers and professionals within the global sustainability and circular economy transformation. The VR(Ex)Change Network produces research and analysis to support viable and sustainable human communities, and tackles questions of resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and human well-being. Members utilize scenario analysis, case studies, landscape studies, and other methods to investigate key themes: (1) Universal Development, Livelihoods, and Resilient Communities; (2) Moving from Circular Economy to Circular Society; (3) Digital Technology to Enable Sufficiency; (4) Design and Cultural Change as Drivers of Secure Lifestyle; and (5) Future of Work and the Role of Consumption. The collaboration provides a solutions-focused, stakeholder-driven approach that produces research and applications from a unified approach to studying sustainable consumption and production. Using a systems-approach focused on mutuality and higher-order learning, the team produces outputs that include a strategic roadmap for transformative integration of production and consumption that facilitates future development of the network.The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. This project is funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).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.