Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) is a research and training center to support and study the emerging field of scientific community engagement. The goal of CSCCE is to professionalize and institutionalize the role of the community engagement manager (CEM) within science. All of our activities are in service of this. Underpinned by an ethos of collaborative, evidence-based activities and the development of network-centric leaders, CSCCE has three focus areas: i) Fellowships The Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP) and its alumni network, which provides a one-year, cohort- based professional development opportunity to existing scientific community engagement managers. ii) Training and Resources The development and delivery of scalable, modular training materials, white papers and other professional development resources for individuals and organizations working to build or fund scientific teams and communities. iii) Research Research to better characterize and support the emerging role of the scientific community engagement manager – including through collaborations with visiting scholars. These three areas are tightly interlinked – with the research informing training materials and organizational feedback signposting future areas for research and/or curriculum development. CSCCE is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, a 501 (c)3 registered in California. CSCCE's activities are generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation.