Using the EPIC model to build transdisciplinary communities of practice that effectively address urban resilience in Africa and Asia

使用 EPIC 模型建立跨学科实践社区，有效解决非洲和亚洲的城市复原力问题

• 批准号: 2103692
• 负责人: Jon Padgham
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: START International, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2103692&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; EPIC; model; build; transdisciplinary

This award provides support to the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research, and Training (START). This organization is an essential component of the US Global Change Research Program strategic plan as it relates to international engagement. Their mission "to increase opportunities for research, education and training that strengthen scientific capacities in developing countries to understand, communicate and motivate action on critical global change challenges" addresses all of the US Global Change Research Program strategic goals. This project will advance knowledge of global environmental change and resilience in urban centers in the two fastest urbanizing regions of the world in Africa and Asia. START will work in conjunction with the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) and the United Nation’s Environment Program Global Adaption Network to expand EPIC model for university-community engagement. The model is designed to engage university faculty from across disciplines and departments to ensure that the research component of partnerships with local governments and communities is sufficiently diverse and integrated to be able to effectively address knowledge generation for complex problems in rapidly growing city-regions. The transformative potential of this project lies in its ability to link universities with local governments and communities in transdisciplinary co-development of research questions and approaches to concretely address complex problems. This project has strong potential for generating significant societal benefits because it is inherently centered around producing direct benefits to local stakeholders and communities through engagement with researchers. The project seeks to enhance the public-service mission that universities provide to the communities in which they are located through strengthening ties between academia and decision-making. This project emphasizes experiential learning by doing, particularly for early-career scientists, through hands-on learning-centered curricula that provides university students with workplace skills to engage communities in co-developed action.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.

这项奖项为全球变更，研究和培训（开始），与国际交流有关，以增强科学能力，以了解美国变革挑战，以增强科学能力。全球研究计划的战略目标。 E大学社区模型的旨在享受来自Aciplines和部门的教师该项目的变革性潜力在于，在跨学科的Earch问题和无纯正的问题的跨学科共同发展中，这是固有的为他们的trengent townew中的社区提供学术界和决策者，尤其是福利式的sce脚，尤其基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。