ORCiD will be required for NIH Funder Grants (K Awards - Training) starting October 2019.

NIH is requiring ORCiD for applicants to K Training Grants starting in October 2019 and all applications in January 2020.  The eRA system will flag to the absence of ORCiD and stop the application process.  

3. Moving Toward Requiring ORCID IDs for Trainees, Fellows and K Awardees and Appointees

Facilitators: Laurie Roman, Jennifer Sutton and Anastasiya Hardison

ORCID ID will be required for appointees to institutional training grants and other awards that make appointments through xTrain, beginning in October 2019.

Applicants for fellowships and individual K awards will be required to have ORCID IDs beginning with applications for due dates on and after January 25, 2020. eRA systems will validate that the ORCID ID is present in the personal profile of the PD/PI Commons ID included in the Credential field of the application. An error will be given if the ORCID ID is not present and the error must be cleared in order to successfully submit. To help raise awareness of this change, a warning will be given starting this fall and will be switched to an error in early January.    

Comments to consider…

• Could the ORCID ID be included in the Person Module web service so S2S development could include data calls for it? (Yes)
• Could the ORCID ID be included as a search variable and as part of the data returned when searching for a user via the Account Management System (AMS)? (Yes)
• Need to caution users from accidently creating additional instances of ORCID IDs. ORCID folks are aware of this potential issue and are looking at ways to reduce the ability of users to create multiple IDs.
• Since the ID is designed to be a unique identifier, there is some discussion starting about adding new data to the Person Profile. Something along the line of:
• Aliases
• Preferred Name(s)
• Previous Name(s)
• There is no target date yet set to require the ID for other types of applications, but it is general agreed that that is the direction the process is going.

Source:  eRA Commons Working Group (CWG) Meeting Notes Notes 05-21-19