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
Funders Interest Group Members and Alumni
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