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Funders Interest Group

The Funders Interest group (FIG) is a bi-monthly meeting where key funders meet to discuss ORCID and how best to facilitate its use.

Funders Interest Group structure

The Funder Interest Group (FIG) comprises funder representatives from a range of funder types (e.g., small philanthropic, large national funder) and disciplinary foci (e.g., multidisciplinary, single- or sub-disciplinary focused), with a balanced geographical coverage.

FIG Documents

Recommendations 2023
Funder PID Policies
FIG Presentations

Funders Interest Group Members and Alumni

2024/25
  • ACLS Funding for Social Sciences & Humanities – United States
  • African Academy of Sciences – Kenya
  • Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s – United States
  • American Cancer Society – United States
  • American Heart Association – United States
  • Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) – Japan
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) – France
  • Australian Research Council (ARC – Australia
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – Canada
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Canada
  • Challenge.gov – United States
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) United States
  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) – Brazil
  • ️Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONCYTEC – Peru
  • Crossref – United States
  • DataCite – Germany
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Germany
  • Department of Energy (DOE) – United States
  • European Commission – Europe
  • European Science Foundation – Europe
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) – Portugal
  • Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) – Spain
  • Fonds de recherche du Québec – Canada
  • Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) – Luxembourg
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) – Belgium
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – US
  • Health Research Board – Ireland
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) – United States
  • Human Frontier Science Program – France
  • Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) – India
  • Israel Science Foundation – Israel
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) – Japan
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) – Korea
  • La Caixa Foundation – Spain
  • LaserNetUS – United States
  • Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) – New Zealand
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) – Australia
  • National Heart Foundation Australia – Australia
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) – United Kingdom
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) – United States
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – United States
  • National Research Foundation (NRF) – Singapore
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) – United States
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) – Netherlands
  • Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) – Austria
  • Prociencia – Peru
  • Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) – Ireland
  • Seneca Foundation – Spain
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – Switzerland
  • Templeton World Charity – Bahamas
  • UK Research and Innovation – United Kingdom
  • Wellcome Trust – United Kingdom
2023/24
  • ACLS Funding for Social Sciences & Humanities – United States
  • African Academy of Sciences – Kenya
  • Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s – United States
  • American Cancer Society – United States
  • American Heart Association – United States
  • Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) – Japan
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) – France
  • Australian Research Council (ARC – Australia
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – Canada
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Canada
  • Challenge.gov – United States
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) United States
  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) – Brazil
  • ️Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONCYTEC – Peru
  • Crossref – United States
  • DataCite – Germany
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Germany
  • Department of Energy (DOE) – United States
  • European Commission – Europe
  • European Science Foundation – Europe
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) – Portugal
  • Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) – Spain
  • Fonds de recherche du Québec – Canada
  • Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) – Luxembourg
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) – Belgium
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – US
  • Health Research Board – Ireland
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) – United States
  • Human Frontier Science Program – France
  • Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) – India
  • Israel Science Foundation – Israel
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) – Japan
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) – Korea
  • LaserNetUS – United States
  • Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) – New Zealand
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) – Australia
  • National Heart Foundation Australia – Australia
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) – United States
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – United States
  • National Research Foundation (NRF) – Singapore
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) – United States
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) – Netherlands
  • Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) – Austria
  • Prociencia – Peru
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) – Ireland
  • Seneca Foundation – Spain
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – Switzerland
  • Templeton World Charity – Bahamas
  • UK Research and Innovation – United Kingdom
  • Wellcome Trust – United Kingdom
2022/23
  • African Academy of Sciences – Kenya
  • Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s – US
  • AMED, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development – Japan
  • ANR – France
  • Australian Research Council – Australia
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation – Canada
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Canada
  • CAPES – Brazil
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – US
  • CONCYTEC – Peru
  • Crossref – US
  • DFG – Germany
  • DOE – US
  • European Commission – Europe
  • FCT – Portugal
  • FNR – Luxembourg
  • FWF – Austria
  • FWO – Belgium
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – US
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute – US
  • INFLIBNET – India
  • Israel Science Foundation – Israel
  • JST – Japan
  • KISTI – S. Korea
  • Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment – New Zealand
  • NHMRC – Australia
  • NIH – US
  • NRF – Singapore
  • NSF – US
  • NWO – Netherlands
  • Prociencia – Peru
  • Science Foundation Ireland – Ireland
  • Seneca Foundation Spain
  • SNF – Switzerland
  • Templeton World Charity – Bahamas
  • UKRI – UK
  • Wellcome – UK
2021/22
  • Alberta Innovates – Canada
  • Gates Foundation – US
  • Health Research BC – Canada

Aims and focus

We recognize the unique challenges encountered by the funding sector. Unlike other groups, such as universities or publishers, there are fewer formal opportunities for collaborating. Funders have a complex set of stakeholder relationships and dependencies across research and policy fields. In addition, different subject disciplines, regulatory environments, geographical regions, and funder types (e.g., public or private) have resulted in a range of capabilities, workflows, and value propositions with respect to ORCID, and to persistent identifiers more generally. 

While ORBIT was focused on investigations into funders’ needs and pathfinder ORCID implementations, with the FIG we hope to provide a space for formal collaboration to unfold,  bringing a range of perspectives together to focus primarily on implementation: integrating ORCID into systems and processes, developing and communicating best practices, and guiding the development or adoption of policies related to ORCID and other persistent identifiers. 

Are you a funder and want to get involved in this group? Reach out to Shawna Sadler, ORCID Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships