SUGI: Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative Food-Water-Energy Nexus Coordination

SUGI：可持续城市化全球倡议粮食-水-能源关系协调

• 批准号: 2243827
• 负责人: Erica Key
• 金额: $ 81.65万
• 依托单位: FUTURE EARTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SUGI; Sustainable; Urbanization; Global; Initiative

This project, led by the Future Earth Global Secretariat Hub at the University of Colorado, is to coordinate and support the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Initiative involves fifteen major, international, transdisciplinary, research teams with operations in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa: all working towards solutions on urban sustainability challenges that intersect with key aspects of food, water and energy systems. Twelve of the fifteen projects have a US partner or are US led. Activities organized and carried out by the University of Colorado Future Earth Hub provide connections and support that enables cross-project integration as well as training scientists in best practices in transdisciplinary research. Work also includes providing mechanisms for working across projects to strengthen research outcomes, supporting cross-team synthesis activities, and developing integrated multi-media communications campaigns to deliver targeted communication products to key audiences. Broder impacts of the work include increasing the diversity of university students engaged in sustainability science by providing them with a multiple year program of engagement with Belmont Forum-funded food-water-energy nexus research groups. The University of Colorado Hub of the Future Earth Secretariat is an organization that helps support and coordinate the work of transdisciplinary research teams. This project builds on the Hub's already-developed organizational structure and successes in coordinating and translating research science in sustainability into impactful traditional and innovative multimedia public outreach materials. For this project, the Hub will bring its organizational and staffing strengths to bear on coordinating activities and providing important synthesis venues for the fifteen research teams involved in the Belmont Forum's Collaborative Research Action Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative on the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. The Colorado Hub of Future Earth will provide organizational support for workshops and other in-person interaction events to enhance internal research team and cross-project communications to ensure the research being carried out has maximum impact and there is transmission of information and findings between research teams. Coordination efforts involve surveys to identify challenges and issues that resonate within and between groups to promote shared learning. Resulting webinars and workshops create a learning forum that involves and benefits all parties. The Hub also provides training in best practices in transdisciplinary research and the co-development of research and policy. The Hub, in its facilitation role, will also support up to five synthesis grants, with each award supporting up to three synthesis meetings. In the final year, a capstone meeting of the research teams will be held where they will report on and integrate key research findings and lessons learned. The capstone event will also be used to assess, from the perspective of each team and on the part of the project overall, the effectiveness of the program and its impact.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.

该项目由科罗拉多大学未来的地球全球秘书处枢纽领导，是为了协调和支持Belmont论坛的合作研究行动可持续的城市化全球化全球倡议。 该倡议涉及在北美，欧洲，亚洲，拉丁美洲和非洲运营的15个专业，国际，跨学科的研究团队：所有这些都致力于解决城市可持续发展挑战的解决方案，这些挑战与食品，水和能源系统的关键方面相关。十五个项目中有十二个有美国合作伙伴或美国领导。科罗拉多大学未来的地球枢纽组织和开展的活动提供了连接和支持，以实现跨学科研究最佳实践的跨项目融合以及培训科学家。工作还包括提供跨项目工作的机制，以加强研究成果，支持跨队综合活动以及开发综合的多媒体通信活动，以向关键受众传达有针对性的通信产品。 Broder对这项工作的影响包括增加从事可持续性科学的大学生的多样性，通过为他们提供与Belmont论坛资助的食品 - 水能源Nexus Nexus Research Groups的多年参与计划。科罗拉多大学未来地球秘书处的枢纽是一个组织，可帮助支持和协调跨学科研究团队的工作。该项目以枢纽已经开发的组织结构为基础，并在协调和将可持续性研究科学转化为有影响力的传统和创新的多媒体公共外展材料方面取得了成功。对于该项目，该枢纽将带来其组织和人员配备的优势，以协调活动，并为贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）合作研究行动的15个研究团队提供重要的综合场所，可持续的城市化全球化全球化全球倡议。科罗拉多州未来地球的枢纽将为研讨会和其他面对面互动活动提供组织支持，以增强内部研究团队和跨项目的通信，以确保进行研究会产生最大的影响，并且在研究团队之间有信息和发现的传播。协调努力涉及调查，以确定在群体内部和群体之间产生共鸣的挑战和问题，以促进共享学习。由此产生的网络研讨会和研讨会创建了一个学习论坛，涉及并受益于各方。该中心还提供了跨学科研究和研究和政策共同开发的最佳实践培训。该枢纽在其促进角色中也将支持多达五个综合赠款，每个奖项最多支持三个综合会议。 在最后一年，将举行研究团队的顶峰会议，他们将在其中报告并整合知识的研究结果和经验教训。 CAPSTONE活动还将从每个团队的角度来评估项目的整体，总体上，该计划的有效性及基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。