InnovATEBIO National Biotechnology Education Center

InnovATEBIO国家生物技术教育中心

• 批准号: 1901984
• 负责人: Linnea Fletcher
• 金额: $ 749.74万
• 依托单位: Austin Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901984&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: InnovATEBIO; National; Biotechnology; Education; Center; InnovATEBIO; National; Biotechnology; Education; Center

The InnovATEBIO National Biotechnology Education Center will address the need to educate highly skilled technicians for the nation's biotechnology workforce. Toward this goal, InnovATEBIO will provide leadership in biotechnology technician education, including support for development and sharing of best practices in biotechnology workforce development. In addition, the Center will promote local and national economic development of the biotechnology industry and help accelerate innovation in biotechnology and associated fields. The Center will focus on biotechnology technician education across the country, with a specific focus on strengthening the connections between high school and community college biotechnology programs. It will actively reach out to all students, including women and students from economically challenged, underrepresented, first generation college, and/or rural backgrounds. Project activities will foster collaboration and mentoring to accelerate development of community college faculty leadership and promote collaboration with industry. The Center will work with industry to gain recognition for biotechnology programs and the educational institutions that offer these programs, so that the entire biotechnology community sees the merits of educational programs and values them. The evaluation activities of the Center will gather the information needed to understand the present status of biotechnology education and the future trends in the field. To serve the national biotechnology community, InnovATEBIO will build a diverse network of educators, students, alumni, and industry partners, including incubators, trade organizations, and professional societies. These partners will work synergistically to build or improve technician education programs so that the programs meet the needs of students, institutions, the biotechnology industry, and the communities that support them. Through its outreach activities, the Center will increase knowledge and awareness of the biotechnology field across all sectors. A major activity of InnovATEBIO will be developing supply chain hubs that engage high school and community college students to produce and use the products necessary for an excellent hands-on biotechnology education. Another activity will develop open educational resources that will be available at no cost to educators around the country. Training and mentoring of faculty will ensure these resources are used effectively and broadly. Through these activities, InnovATEBIO will achieve the following goals: (1) develop a collaborative infrastructure that supports innovation, and promptly addresses the changing needs of the biotechnology community; (2) coordinate and leverage outputs from ATE-funded biotechnology projects; (3) identify opportunities to generate partnerships and collaborations that accelerate innovation in biotechnology education; (4) monitor and address emerging biotechnology industry and technician workforce trends; and (5) develop a regional outreach and mentoring infrastructure to broadly engage underserved populations in biotechnology labs and related emerging technologies. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

Innovatebio国家生物技术教育中心将满足为国家生物技术劳动力教育高技能技术人员的必要性。为了实现这一目标，InnovateBio将在生物技术技术人员教育方面提供领导才能，包括支持开发和分享生物技术劳动力发展中最佳实践。 此外，该中心将促进生物技术行业的地方和国家经济发展，并帮助加速生物技术和相关领域的创新。 该中心将重点关注全国生物技术技术人员的教育，特别着眼于加强高中与社区大学生物技术计划之间的联系。它将积极接触所有学生，包括来自经济挑战，代表性不足，第一代大学和/或农村背景的妇女和学生。项目活动将促进协作和指导，以加快社区大学教师领导的发展，并促进与行业的合作。该中心将与行业合作，以获得对生物技术计划和提供这些计划的教育机构的认可，以便整个生物技术社区都看到教育计划和价值观的优点。该中心的评估活动将收集所需的信息，以了解生物技术教育的现状和该领域的未来趋势。 为了为国家生物技术社区服务，InnovateBio将建立一个多样化的教育者，学生，校友和行业合作伙伴，包括孵化器，贸易组织和专业社会。这些合作伙伴将协同努力建立或改善技术人员教育计划，以便这些计划满足学生，机构，生物技术行业以及支持他们的社区的需求。通过其外展活动，该中心将提高所有领域生物技术领域的知识和认识。 Innovatebio的主要活动将开发供应链中心，这些供应链中心吸引高中和社区大学生，以生产和使用出色的动手生物技术教育所需的产品。另一项活动将开发开放的教育资源，这些资源将无需向全国各地的教育工作者提供任何费用。教师的培训和指导将确保这些资源得到有效，广泛使用。通过这些活动，InnovateBio将实现以下目标：（1）建立一个支持创新的协作基础架构，并迅速解决生物技术社区的不断变化的需求； （2）协调和利用ATE资助的生物技术项目的产出； （3）确定建立伙伴关系和合作的机会，以加速生物技术教育中的创新； （4）监测和解决新兴生物技术行业和技术人员劳动力趋势； （5）开发区域宣传和指导基础设施，以广泛的服务在生物技术实验室和相关的新兴技术中。 该项目由先进的技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术人员的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。