Grant

The entity Grant describes funding awarded to a Agent by a funding body. These bodies, both public and private, can be funders, foundations, governments, agencies or institutions.

Properties

local_identifier

String (mandatory): Unique code identifying a Grant in the SKG (if any, otherwise “stateless identifier”).

Suggestion: Use a URL as a string to make this entity dereferenceable on the Web. For additional information, see the section ‘Local identifiers of entities’ of the Interoperability Framework.

    "local_identifier": "https://doi.org/10.3030/101095129"

grant_number

String (recommended): Unique code identifying the Grant at the funder.

    "grant_number": "101095129"

identifiers

List (recommended): Objects representing external identifiers for the entity.

Each object is structured as follows:

  • scheme String (mandatory): The scheme for the external identifier.
  • value String (mandatory): The external identifier.

Note: the current version of SKG-IF includes the types of identifiers (to be specified as strings in the field scheme) as introduced in Section “External identifiers of entities”.

    "identifiers": [
        {
            "scheme": "doi"
            "value": "10.3030/101095129"
        }
    ]

entity_type

String (mandatory): Field stating what kind of entity is being serialised.

Needed for parsing purposes; fixed to grant.

    "entity_type": "grant"

titles

Object (optional): The titles of a Grant (multiple for multilingualism).

The object is a dictionary, the keys represent language codes following [ISO 639-1]; the special key none is reserved whenever the information about the language is not available or cannot be shared.

    "titles": {
        "en": "GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science"
    }

abstracts

Object (optional): The abstracts of a Grant (multiple for multilingualism).

The object is a dictionary, the keys represent language codes following [ISO 639-1]; the special key none is reserved whenever the information about the language is not available or cannot be shared.

    "abstracts": {
        "en": "Open science (OS) has proven to provide several benefits to scientific research and collaboration. The EU-funded GraspOS project will further extend the reach and influence of OS. Specifically, it will develop a data infrastructure that will help policy reforms and bring about the adoption of a responsible research assessment system that embeds OS practices. Additionally, the project will create the necessary tools to expand the reach of the European Open Science Cloud ecosystem and improve monitoring services. These services will also allow for policy-level rewards that encourage OS practices and mindsets."
    }

acronym

String (optional): The acronym of the Grant.

    "acronym": "GraspOS"

funding_agency

String (optional): The local identifier of an Organisation funding the Grant.

    "funding_agency": "EC"

funding_stream

String (optional): The funding stream of the Grant.

    "funding_stream": "Horizon Europe"

currency

String (mandatory, if funded_amount is provided; optional otherwise): Currency of the funded amount, following ISO 4217.

    "currency": "EUR"

funded_amount

Numeric (optional): Amount funded for a Grant.

    "funded_amount": 2985441

keywords

List (optional): Keywords of a Grant.

    "keywords": ["Open science", "mutual learning", "open research"]

duration

Object (optional): The duration of the Grant.

It includes the following information:

  • start String (mandatory): The start datetime of the Grant. The string should be compliant with the ISO 8601 datetime string.
  • end String (optional): The end datetime (if any) of the Grant. The string should be compliant with the ISO 8601 datetime string.
    "duration": {
        "start": "2023-01-01T00:00:00",
        "end": "2025-12-31T23:59:59"
    }

website

String (optional): An URL pointing to the website of the funded project.

    "website": "https://graspos.eu"

beneficiaries

List (optional): Organisations identifiers funded by the Grant.

    "beneficiaries": ["org_2", "org_5"]

contributions

List (optional): Objects, each describing an Agent, its contribution, and declared affiliations to one or more Organisations in the context of the Grant.

Each object is structured as follows:

  • by String (mandatory): The identifier of an Agent contributing to a Grant.
  • declared affiliations List (recommended): Organisations identifiers that reflect the declared affiliations of an Agent for a Grant.
  • roles List (recommended): The roles that an Agent had in a Grant. Each element in the list is a String compliant with the project roles in SCoRO, i.e.,
    • co-applicant
    • lead applicant
    • project leader
    • project manager
    • project member
    • workpackage leader