Applications Invited for ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF)

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About the Organization

ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a global, not-for-profit organization sustained by fees from our member organizations. We are community-built and governed by a Board of Directors representative of our membership with wide stakeholder representation. ORCID is supported by a dedicated and knowledgeable professional staff.

Our Vision: ORCID’s vision is a world where all who participate in research, scholarship, and innovation are uniquely identified and connected to their contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.

Our Mission: In order to realize our vision, ORCID strives to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations by providing a unique, persistent identifier for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

About the Grant

Universal uptake of ORCID is inherent in ORCID’s mission to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations wherever they are. Current member organizations emphasize the importance of ORCID’s adoption universally around the world, however, although individual researchers in nearly every country have registered for ORCID iDs, organizational membership is lacking in much of the Global South.

The ORCID Global Participation Program (GPP) is an initiative that supports ORCID’s efforts to bridge this participation gap and improve equity of access to interconnected research infrastructure in currently under-represented regions. The ultimate aim of which is to improve the visibility of researchers and reduce administrative burden on both researchers and institutions around the world.

The GPP consists of:

• the Global Participation Fund (made possible by the generous support of our partners) and
• the ORCID-funded Membership Equity Program, provides fee discounts for organizations in lower and lower-middle income countries (LLMICs) who join ORCID as members of a consortium.

ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF) has been developed to remedy gaps in ORCID participation from organizations in the Global South, especially in countries with low- and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank). In these Focus Communities” of the GPF, we aim to provide funds to: foster the development of ORCID Communities of Practice, working with local partners who can build understanding and use of ORCID in local contexts; and create and enhance technical integrations to support the realization of the benefits provided by the use of ORCID. Proposing organizations do not need to be current ORCID members.

The GPF will initially provide competitive grants under two different grant programs:

• ​​​Grants for Community Development and Outreach to financially support:
• local partners to build ORCID Communities of Practice in Focus Community regions; and
• local outreach, training, and tech support resources for the creation and growth of ORCID consortia that serve those regions.
• Grants for Technical Integration to financially support:
• software development to build and update ORCID integrations in open-source systems that will enable or facilitate participation in ORCID in Focus Community regions and
• the creation of technical documentation, outreach, and support for resources created through the grants.

GPF Goals:

The ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) was established in 2022 with the kind support of several of ORCID’s founding sponsors, and was designed to provide grants to further ORCID’s public charitable purpose under its US 501(c)(3) non-profit designation:

• promoting accuracy and integrity, and furthering collaboration in scientific research and scholarship
• generally supporting and enhancing scholarship and the scientific process by
• working to solve the author/contributor misidentification problem in scholarly research and communication
• creation of a central registry of iDs assigned to individual researchers and linked to researcher outputs
• engaging in other related activities to enhance and increase scholarly research and scientific discovery in the public interest

ORCID has established the Fund to help remedy current gaps in organizational participation around the world by providing funds to:

• Foster the development of ORCID Communities of Practice in the Focus Communities (as described above).
• Work with local partners who can build understanding and use of ORCID in local contexts.
• Create and enhance technical integrations that will support the realization of the benefits provided by the use of ORCID in areas of the Focus Communities.

Eligibility

The GPF is designed to develop ORCID Communities of Practice in low- and lower-middle-income economies, as designated by the World Bank, particularly in the Global South where ORCID participation to date has been low (the Focus Communities.) All aspects of the GPF and its grant programs are designed to benefit those in this region. If your organization is either from one of these countries, or the grant will benefit research infrastructure in one of the following countries, we encourage you to apply.

GPF grants can be awarded to any non-profit organization, NGOs, or government entity, whether they are a current ORCID member or not.

How to Apply

Before you begin, be sure your organization is eligible to apply for a GPF Grant.

The first step to submit a GPF Grant proposal is to complete the registration form. Once you do, you will be directed to log into your Applicant Portal, where you will submit your proposal for either the:

• Grant for Community Development and Outreach, or the
• Grant for Technical Integration

You only need to register once: you will be able to submit proposals from your Applicant Portal in subsequent proposal cycles with the same account.

We will review your proposal after the current call for proposals window closes on 3rd May 2024. We expect to notify applicants about the status of their proposal in early July 2024.

If you need to make any additions or edits to your proposal before 3rd May 2024—regardless of whether you’ve submitted your proposal or saved it in draft form—you can access your materials directly from this applicant portal. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at grants@orcid.org.

This form registers you into our grant system and collects general information about you (as the main contact person for the proposal/s,) and the organization that would receive the grant if one is awarded.

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