Coordination Node for UKCRIC

UKCRIC的基础是：(I)物理测试设施的连接网络，与(Ii)一系列“活的城市”观测站相结合，通过这些观测站，将监测、分析和评估城市和基础设施的功能以及人们实际使用它们的方式；以及(Iii)基础设施数据、可视化、建模和模拟的分布式能力。每个学术伙伴引领一个主题，并为其他合作伙伴做出贡献，形成一个强大的合作网络，拥有多个中心，并在这些中心之间建立联系。这在地理上和整个英国高等教育的教学计划中传播了好处。然而，这确实意味着，需要一个强大的、可持续的、协作的领导/管理/协调职能，分散但集中指导，并能够代表整个UKCRIC社区，以实现全部潜在利益。这项提议是通过一个协调节点(CN)为UKCRIC整体及其多学科研究计划的协调和领导提供资金。目的是在*制定跨学科研究议程方面，为UKCRIC提供一致和全球尊重的领导*提供协作、多学科的跨学科研究，同时确保设施得到广泛、充分和有效的使用*确保研究结果为社会利益而实施。环境和英国经济。目标是*建立和维护治理和运营结构和协议，包括参与、合作、设施使用和扩大初始成员的标准*让利益攸关方制定全面、多学科的愿景和研究战略，重点放在社会、可持续性、韧性和全球机会上*在UKCRIC的研究组合中促进跨学科、多方利益相关者的工作、学习和知识共享，同时确保广泛、充分和有效地利用设施*确定和利用影响机会和途径、创新机制和宣传以影响政策*培养下一代研究领导者，解决基础设施部门的技能需求，协调博士和其他高级别培训*在拟议的资金到期后发展维持CN的商业模式。好处：UKCRIC将解决近期问题，如优化投资和基础设施的使用。从长远来看，它将开发新的材料、技术和技术。在最高一级，它将了解如何使构成一个国家基础设施的系统对极端事件更具弹性，更能适应不断变化的环境和背景，以及如何能够提供更负担得起、更容易获得和更容易使用的服务。它还将开发新的跨学科活动领域，制定基础设施领域的研究和政策议程。CN将通过综合基础设施/城市系统的视角，在查看和利用新发现方面发挥变革性的作用，直接与包括行业、城市领导人和其他最终用户在内的一系列利益攸关方接触，从而增加价值。研究将受到一系列考虑和声音的影响，以多方面了解未来基础设施系统的需求，以及社会和金融干预可能如何影响这一需求。它将考虑如何、在哪里以及何时利用技术、工程和工艺进步在基础设施和城市系统中发挥最佳效果，同时允许开发潜在的颠覆者和哲学上的变化，例如从“预测和提供”到“决定和创造”。还将通过协调大量研究活动，利用现有工作，促进和实现总体跨学科目标，实现附加值。

UKCRIC is based around (i) a linked network of physical test facilities, integrated with (ii) a series of "living city" observatories, through which the functioning of cities and infrastructure and how people actually use them will be monitored, analysed and assessed; and (iii) a distributed capability for infrastructure data, visualisation, modelling and simulation.UKCRIC does not have a single geographical home. Each academic partner leads a theme and contributes to others, giving a strong collaborative network with multiple centres and connections between them. This spreads the benefits geographically and into teaching programmes throughout UK HE. It does however mean that a strong, sustainable, collaborative leadership/ management/ coordination function, distributed but centrally directed and able to represent the UKCRIC community as a whole, is needed to realise the full potential benefits.This proposal is to fund coordination and leadership of UKCRIC as a whole, and its multidisciplinary research programme, through a Coordination Node (CN).The aim is to provide coherent and globally-respected leadership of UKCRIC in*setting the transdisciplinary research agenda*delivering collaborative, multidisciplinary moving towards transdisciplinary research while ensuring that facilities are used widely, fully and effectively*ensuring the results of research are implemented for the benefit of society, the environment and the UK economy.The objectives are to*establish and maintain governance and operational structures and protocols, including criteria for engagement, collaboration, use of facilities, and expansion of initial membership*engage stakeholders to develop an holistic, multi-disciplinary vision and research strategy, with key emphases on society, sustainability, resilience and global opportunity*foster trans-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder working, learning and knowledge sharing across UKCRIC's research portfolio, while ensuring wide, full and effective use of facilities*identify and exploit opportunities and pathways for impact, mechanisms for innovation and advocacy for influencing policy*develop the next generation of research leaders, address the skills demands of the infrastructure sector and coordinate doctoral and other high-level training*progress a business model for sustaining the CN after the proposed funding expires.Benefits: UKCRIC will address near term issues such as optimising investment and use of infrastructure. In the longer term, it will develop new materials, techniques and technologies. At the highest level, it will understand how to make the system of systems that constitutes a nation's infrastructure more resilient to extreme events and more adaptable to changing circumstances and contexts, and how it can provide services that are more affordable, accessible and useable to the whole population. It will also develop new transdisciplinary areas of activity that set research and policy agenda in the infrastructure arena.The CN will add value through being transformative in viewing and exploiting emerging findings through an integrated infrastructure/ urban systems lens, engaging directly with a range of stakeholders including industry, city leaders and other end users. Research will be shaped by a range of considerations and voices, to give a multi-faceted understanding of future infrastructure systems demand, and how this might be shaped by societal and financial interventions. It will consider how, where and when technological, engineering and process advances can be exploited to best effect across the infrastructure and urban systems landscape, while allowing for the development of potential disruptors and changes in philosophy, eg from "predict and provide" to "decide and create".Added value will also be achieved through coordinating a large set of research activities, drawing on existing work, to promote and deliver overarching cross-disciplinary goals.