Conference: INTEGRaL: Innovation Network To Enhance and Grow ReseArch Infrastructure and Links

会议：INTEGRaL：加强和发展研究基础设施和链接的创新网络

• 批准号: 2324594
• 负责人: Kellie Dyslin
• 金额: $ 9.96万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; INTEGRaL; Innovation; Network; Enhance

This project seeks to improve research administration and research development infrastructure to support more and better discoveries that will help society. Research administration and research development professionals help researchers navigate the complexity of grant submission and award management. Unfortunately, too few individuals are formally trained for these careers and too few institutions are adequately staffed to support the ambitions of their researchers. This is particularly true of institutions that have fewer resources and receive fewer federal research dollars. To meet these challenges, this project brings staff members from research institutions together to identify specific problems and propose scalable and generalizable solutions that provide sustainable support and diversify and broaden research activity. Enhancing the skills of research administration and development professionals allows investigators to focus on their research. Creating training programs and a better-defined career path for research administration and development professionals will grow access to research support infrastructure especially in underserved urban areas and rural communities where many colleges and universities are located. The Innovation Network To Enhance and Grow ReseArch Infrastructure and Links (INTEGRaL) will convene research institutions in Illinois and the surrounding region to address common challenges and explore potential solutions in research administration and research development and to consider how a cooperative approach could advance shared goals. Two overarching themes will frame the work of the project: 1) training and professionalization of the research administration and development workforce and 2) how institutions could scale this workforce to match their grant portfolios. Project participants will be recruited from multiple types and sizes of institutions of higher education and related organizations in Illinois and the surrounding region. The project will be conducted in three phases: (1) an electronic survey to identify the key specific topics to be addressed under the two main themes; (2) a one-and-a-half-day workshop to clearly define the problems and propose solutions based on the topics identified in the survey; (3) post-workshop follow-up sessions for further discussion of any topics as needed. The expected outcome of this project is a set of clearly defined problems and proposed solutions to address them.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.

该项目旨在改善研究管理和研究开发基础设施，以支持更多，更好的发现可以帮助社会。研究管理和研究开发专业人员帮助研究人员浏览赠款提交和奖励管理的复杂性。 不幸的是，很少有人接受这些职业的正式培训，并且很少有机构足够人员来支持其研究人员的野心。对于资源较少且获得更少的联邦研究资金的机构尤其如此。为了应对这些挑战，该项目将研究机构的工作人员聚集在一起，以确定特定的问题，并提出可扩展和可推广的解决方案，以提供可持续的支持，多样化和扩大研究活动。提高研究管理和发展专业人员的技能使研究人员可以专注于他们的研究。创建培训计划和研究管理和发展专业人员的定义更好的职业道路将使研究支持基础设施获得访问权限，尤其是在服务不足的城市地区和许多大学所在的农村社区中。增强和发展研究基础设施和联系的创新网络（Integrood）将召集伊利诺伊州和周边地区的研究机构，以应对共同的挑战，并探索研究管理和研究开发中潜在的解决方案，并考虑合作方法如何推进共同的目标。两个总体主题将构成项目的工作：1）研究管理和发展劳动力的培训和专业化以及2）机构如何扩展该劳动力以符合其赠款组合。项目参与者将从伊利诺伊州及其周边地区的高等教育机构及相关组织的多种类型和规模中招募。该项目将分为三个阶段：（1）一项电子调查，以确定两个主要主题要解决的关键特定主题； （2）一个半天的研讨会，以明确定义问题并根据调查中确定的主题提出解决方案； （3）工作室后的后续会议，以进一步讨论任何主题。该项目的预期结果是一套明确定义的问题和提议解决方案的解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准的评估值得支持的。