Research Security Training

The U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense, has developed online research security training for the research community. This training provides individuals receiving federal research funding with valuable knowledge about potential risks and threats to the global research environment, along with strategies and resources for mitigating these risks. Researchers and research staff are encouraged to take this training. Do remember to download the completion certificate at the end of each module.

Module 1: What is Research Security?: Learn key concepts of research security and how to recognize situations that may indicate undue foreign influence. Understand the regulatory landscape that shapes research security and discover what you can do to safeguard the core values that underpin U.S. academic research. What is Research Security?

Module 2: Disclosure: Learn about federal funding agency disclosure requirements, including types of information that must be disclosed, how that information is used, and why such disclosures are fundamental to safeguarding the U.S. research enterprise from foreign government interference and exploitation.  Disclosure

Module 3: Manage and Mitigate Risk: Learn to identify types of international collaborative research and professional activities, associated potential risks, and strategies and best practices for managing and mitigating such risk. Learner experience will be customized based on their role as either a researcher or administrator. Manage and Mitigate Risk

Module 4: International Collaboration: Learn about the role of principled international collaboration in U.S. science, innovation and economic competitiveness. Discover how to balance principled international collaboration with research security concerns, as well as how to foster an open, welcoming research environment that fulfills research security needs. International Collaboration