REAPv: Resilient engineering to advance public value and innovation in research periphery countries

CORD Director Julia Melkers leads a multi-national project examining how academic engineering transforms to create public value in times of crisis, threat, and disruption. With co-PIs Molly Ott and Kurt Paterson, the project “Resilient Engineering to Advance Public Value and Innovation in Research Periphery Countries” brings together an interdisciplinary team from the U.S., Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to advance scholarly understanding of organizational adapation in times of crisis, and provide actionable findings for organizational and programmatic design strategies in engineering schools.

Funding for the $1M two-year project comes from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (EAGER IMPRESS-U) and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Polish NCN National Science Centre; ETAG - Estonian Research Council; Latvian Rīga Stradiņš University and Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University); and the Research Council of Lithuania.

Project details

Primary investigator

Julia Melkers

PI(s)

Molly Ott, Kurt Paterson, Mikołaj Herbst, Agnieszka Olechnicka

Collaborators

UKRAINE: Nataliya Chukhray (Lviv Polytechnic National U.), Oleksandra Mryhkina (Lviv Polytechnic National U.), Oksana Boryushkina (State Biotechnological U.), Iryna Nechitailo (Kharkiv Natl U. of Internal Affairs), Oleh Matviikiv (Lviv Polytechnic National U.); ESTONIA: Kai Pata (Tallinn U.), Merja Bauters (Tallinn U.); LATVIA: Agrita Kiopa (Riga Stradiņš U.), Tatjana Tambovceva (Riga Technical U.), Ilze Jankovska (Riga Technical U.), Gemma Derrick (U. of Bristol/Riga Stradiņš U.); LITHUANIA: Žilvinas Martinaitis (Vilnius U.), Aurelija Ulbinaitė (Vilnius U.), Rūta Petkutė-Budrė (Kaunas U. of Technology), Milda Ratkevičienė (Kaunas U. of Technology); POLAND: Agnieszka Olechnicka (U. of Warsaw), Kamila Lewandowska (U. of Warsaw), Marcin Górski (Silesian U. of Technology)

Postdoc

Cristina Diordieva

PhD student(s)

Nicolas Ferraioulo

Funder

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER IMPRESS-U, Estonian Research Council (ETAG), Latvian Council of Science (LCS), Research Council of Lithuania (LMT), National Science Center of Poland (NCN), and US National Academy of Sciences

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=2411326

Award period

2025-2028