Open call for ORCID Global Participation Fund

Deadline: 03-May-24

Submissions are now open for the Global Participation Fund to foster the development of ORCID Communities of Practice and create and enhance technical integrations to support the realization of the benefits provided by the use of ORCID.

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.

Goals

• The ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) is established in 2022 with the kind support of several of ORCID’s founding sponsors, and is 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

Types of Programs

• 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.
  • 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.
• Initially they will be offering two grant programs via the GPF to achieve their goals. These grant programs are:
  • Grants for Community Development and Outreach
    • These grants are intended to:
      • Financially support local partners to build ORCID Communities of Practice in the Focus Communities.
      • Support local outreach, training, and tech support resources for the creation and growth of ORCID consortia that serve organizations in the Focus Communities.
  • Grants for Technical Integration
    • These grants are intended to:
      • Fund software development to build and update ORCID integrations in open-source systems that are likely to support and encourage participation by those in the Focus Communities.
      • Support the creation and improvement of open-source components, libraries, or resources that will enable or facilitate ORCID participation for those in the Focus Communities.
      • Support the creation of technical documentation, outreach, and support for resources created through this Grant Program.

Funding Information

• The number and size of grants are largely dependent on the Fund’s size.
• They expect to award 10 grants of US$5,000–20,000 each.
• Grant Duration: The duration for all grants will be one year.

What Can Grants be Used For?

• Grants are expected to be awarded to not-for-profit organizations (or their local equivalent) whose missions closely align with the objectives of the Fund. A non-exhaustive list of example activities that may be funded includes:
  • Reasonable salary/contract support for individuals conducting activities related to the proposed work
  • Materials, tools, and resources needed to accomplish the proposed work
  • Travel and other expenses that may be necessary to conduct the proposed work
• Grantees are expected to outline how they intend to use funds should they receive a grant and are expected to spend grants as per the budget submitted in their proposal. While grantees have a great deal of flexibility with how they propose to use the grant, proposals will be evaluated based on the expected impact that the grant is expected to deliver for the grant size and the activities the grant supports.

How GPF Grants May NOT Be Used?

• GPF grants will only be awarded to non-profit organizations, NGOs and government entities, not to individuals or commercial organizations. Though this is not an exhaustive list, GPF grant funds may not be used for the following:
  • To privately benefit any individual
  • Political campaigns and legislative lobbying efforts
  • Sub-granting initiatives
  • Costs previously incurred
  • Loan repayment programs
  • Contribution to reserves
  • ORCID membership fees

Who Should Submit A Proposal?

• 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 the listed countries, or the grant will benefit research infrastructure in one of the listed countries, they encourage you to apply.

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