2023 GERMINATION Investigator Workshop

EFMA萌发计划旨在促进新方法、平台和环境的发展和实施，以培训学术研究人员制定具有社会影响力的研究问题。该奖项将为一个为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将于2023年初在哈维马德学院举行，该研讨会将召集由发芽计划资助的团队。本次会议将在以往会议的基础上，包括来自当前和已完成的萌发项目的研究人员。在2023年的研讨会之前，将在2022年举行一次较短的虚拟会议，以启动萌发团队之间的联系。这些会议延续了发芽研究者研讨会的目标，推动信息交流和进一步的社区建设，特别是将探索建立和支持超越个人奖项生命周期的关系的方法。更广泛的影响是发芽计划的内在目标——教学框架、平台和/或环境的发展，这些框架、平台和/或环境刺激了解决重要社会需求的变革性研究问题的形成。2023年研讨会将汇集发芽奖获得者和其他利益相关者，报告和反思他们的项目如何促进了变革性研究问题的制定。计划中的讲习班将提供一个独特的机会，在年度讲习班的框架内形成一种关系协作文化的雏形。将探索非传统的研究目标、计划和发现的呈现模式，目的是利用有趣的学习经验作为一种机制，在来自不同项目的参与者之间产生潜在的长期互动。组织讲习班的专业人员制定了一套讲习班原则来指导活动，包括强调相互作用，承认有趣和创造性的方法，以及确定合作联系。预期的活动将包括探索关系跨学科合作的属性，包括合作基础、权力关系、表达方式和风险处理方法。最终，研讨会应该提供一个研究文化的原型，为创造性合作和冒险搭建脚手架。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 academic researchers to formulate societally impactful research questions. This award will provide support for a two-day workshop to be held at Harvey Mudd College in early 2023, which will convene teams funded through the GERMINATION program. This event will build on past meetings by including researchers from both current and completed GERMINATION projects. The 2023 workshop, which is intended as an in-person meeting, will be preceded by a shorter virtual meeting in 2022 to initiate connection building across the GERMINATION teams. These meetings continue the goal of GERMINATION investigator workshops to propel information exchange and further community building, and in particular will explore ways to establish and support relationships beyond the lifetime of individual awards. Broader Impacts are inherent in the goals of the GERMINATION program – the development of pedagogical frameworks, platforms and/or environments that stimulate formulation of transformative research questions that address important societal needs.The 2023 workshop will bring together GERMINATION awardees and other stakeholders to report and reflect on how their projects have facilitated the formulation of transformative research questions. The planned workshop will provide a unique opportunity to prototype a culture of relational collaboration within the framework of the annual workshops. Non-traditional modes of presentation of research goals, plans, and findings will be explored, with the goal of using fun learning experiences as a mechanism to generate potentially long-term interactions among the participants from different projects. The workshop-organizing PIs have developed a set of workshop principles to guide the activities, including an emphasis on interaction, recognition of interesting and creative approaches, and identification of collaborative connections. Anticipated activities will include exploration of attributes of relational interdisciplinary collaboration, including collaborative foundations, power relationships, means of expression and approaches to risk. Ultimately, the workshop should provide a prototype for a research culture that scaffolds creative collaboration and risk taking.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.