CORE: Creative outreach for resource efficiency

更有效地利用资源，即水、能源、包装、运输、原材料和废物，通过更有效地利用有限资产和减少排放，对环境有利；它还可以共同为企业节省成本，并在国家层面上使英国工业更有利可图。英国政府最近的政策和战略在支持资源效率(RE)倡议方面做出了阶段性的改变，突显了英国在这一领域的发展承诺。因此，受欧盟在2020年欧洲战略下关于可再生能源的旗舰倡议的推动，可再生能源已成为英国政府和企业的头条术语，该倡议为行动提供了长期框架(路线图)。然而，由于英国的城市垃圾回收率在欧洲仅排在第11位，而且解决材料稀缺的压力越来越大，有强有力的证据表明，公众对可再生能源的参与需要进一步增加。与用户和普通公众以及企业进行接触，对于实现任何国家可再生能源目标和愿望至关重要。然而，有许多不同的‘公众’，或利益相关者，因为主题领域极其广泛、复杂和高度多学科。尽管存在让非学术团体参与研究的支持、指导和框架，但需要做更多的工作来激发人们对可从RE中收集到的潜在机会的兴趣。因此，这是一个及时的机会，可以探索当前可再生能源政策方向、交付所需的变革性研究(通过EPSRC的资源效率领域)和社会参与之间的关系。CORE(资源效率创意推广)旨在支持提供充满活力和创意的推广方案，以最大限度地提高公众和用户在资源效率方面的参与度。它是一个推动者项目，帮助EPSRC支持的其他项目(通过EPSRC的资源效率沙坑资助)提供高影响力的世界级科学。从根本上说，在整个生命周期中，核心项目将获得动力并扩大其影响范围，方法是不断地通过能力建设的三个阶段(基于现有的网络和联系)；向目标受众传播关键成果并获得反馈；然后接触新的参与者(学者和其他人)，以期长期生存并赢得随后获得资助的项目。该项目将构思、协调和支持使用充满活力和创造性的外联机制，以开展激动人心的公众和用户参与活动；组织具体的活动和活动；建立一个新的一站式网上商店，用于信息、传播和知识共享；支持有针对性地传播高质量的成果；维持和发展一个健康的大学实践社区；以及确定和交流外联、合作、企业和研究机会的消息。CORE将努力变得充满活力、视觉和创造力，确保学者们走出实验室，引发公众辩论，并在他们的项目上提供世界级的参与。该项目将通过创新的外联基金、横向专题和政策制定者活动，向适当的公众和用户群体直接支持有价值的外向型活动。伙伴机构将使用令人兴奋的机制(如弹出式实验室、众包、播客、社会设计和创新、实物实践和有趣的演示以及学校活动)，以鼓励对话，共同创造成果，并与一系列利益攸关方产生影响。这个项目与EPSRC的研究主题有很强的联系：“与环境变化共存”、“工程”和“制造未来”。CORE响应国家和欧洲关于资源效率的政策议程，因此将使英国在这一新兴领域的参与、共同创造以及(希望)伙伴关系建设方面处于领先地位。

Being more efficient with resources, i.e. water, energy, packaging, transport, raw materials and waste, benefits the environment through more effective use of finite assets and reductions in emissions; it can also collectively deliver savings for business and, at a national level, make UK industry more profitable. Recent UK government policy and strategy has created a step-change in support for resource efficiency (RE) initiatives, underlining the UK's commitment to development in this area. As a result, RE has become a headline term within UK government and business, stimulated by the EU flagship initiative on RE under the Europe 2020 strategy, which provides a long-term framework (roadmap) for action. However, with the UK's rate of recycling of municipal waste still ranked only 11th in Europe and growing pressure to address materials' scarcity, there is strong evidence that public engagement in RE needs to be increased further. Outreach to users and the general public as well as businesses is critical to the delivery of any national RE targets and aspirations. Yet there are many different 'publics', or stakeholders, because the subject domain is extremely broad, complex and highly multi-disciplinary. Despite the presence of support, guidance and frameworks for engaging non-academic parties in research, more needs to be done to excite people about the potential opportunities that can be gleaned from RE. So, this is a timely opportunity to explore the nexus of current policy direction on RE, delivery of needed, transformative research (through the EPSRC's Resource Efficiency area) and societal engagement. CORE (Creative outreach for resource efficiency) aims to support the delivery of a vibrant and creative outreach programme to maximise public and user engagement in RE. It is an enabler project, helping other EPSRC-supported projects (funded through the EPSRC's Resource Efficiency sandpit) to deliver high-impact, world-class science. Essentially, through-life, the CORE project will gain momentum and broaden its outreach by continually cycling through a three-stage process of capacity building (based on existing networks and contacts); disseminating key results to targeted audiences and getting feedback; and then, reaching out to new participants (academics and others), with a view to long-term survival and winning subsequent funded projects. The project will ideate, coordinate and support the use of vibrant and creative outreach mechanisms for exciting public and user engagement activities; organise specific events and activities; establish a new, one-stop online shop for information, dissemination and knowledge-sharing; support the targeted dissemination of high-quality outcomes; sustain and develop a healthy, collegiate community of practice; and, identify and communicate news of outreach, collaboration, enterprise and research opportunities. CORE will strive to be vibrant, visual and creative, ensuring that academics 'get out of the lab', provoke public debate and deliver world-class engagement on their projects. This project will directly support outward-facing activities of value with appropriate public and user groups through an Innovative Outreach Fund, cross-cutting themes and policymakers' events. Partner institutions will use exciting mechanisms (such as pop-up labs, crowdsourcing, podcasts, social design and innovation, physical hands-on and fun demonstrations and schools events) to encourage dialogue, co-create outcomes and deliver impact with a range of stakeholders. This project has strong links to the EPSRC's research themes of: 'Living with Environmental Change', 'Engineering' and 'Manufacturing the Future'. CORE responds to the national and European policy agendas on resource efficiency and so will place the UK in a leadership position on engagement, co-creation and, hopefully, partnership building in this emerging area.