About the ECR Hub
About the ECR Hub
The ECR Hub aims to build, support, and grow communities of current and prospective ECR:Core and ECR:BCSER grantees, in partnership with NSF and related NSF-funded hubs and institutes.
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What We Do
The EDU Core Research (ECR) Hub, launched in 2022, is a multi-institutional resource center that supports the ECR:Core and ECR:Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR:BCSER) programs at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Please see here for how ECR funding differs from other NSF programs.
The ECR Hub partners with NSF to:
- Extend the reach and influence of ECR’s existing investments in fundamental STEM education research.
- Foster career development opportunities for current and prospective ECR grantees, especially for groups and institutions underrepresented in the current ECR portfolio.
Primary activities include:
- Identify the needs of diverse ECR grantee communities through interviews, surveys, and community listening sessions.
- Strengthen research networks and information sharing among current ECR grantees, through events like the 2024 ECR Principal Investigator meeting and 2026 ECR Awardee meeting.
- Catalogue and synthesize ECR research to explore the portfolio (through the interactive ECR project search portal and ECR publications library).
- Conduct outreach and broaden participation in the ECR program through targeted workshops, webinars, and communities of practices for prospective grantees, such as through a recorded workshop on developing a one-pager for an ECR proposal idea.
- Collaborate with other NSF resource hubs and related NSF programs to advance long-term ECR goals, such as fostering knowledge exchanges and collaborations between fundamental and applied researchers.
Who We Are
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) leads the ECR Hub in close partnership with NSF and two partner organizations: Georgia State University and Morgan State University.
An institutionally diverse and multidisciplinary advisory board helps guide the ECR Hub goals and activities. In addition, Partner to Improve serves as our external evaluator.
The ECR Hub’s Leadership Team provides strategic oversight and expertise in fundamental research, STEM education, and community building:
