Ensuring Research Integrity - Conferences | IR ORI 24 001

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The "Ensuring Research Integrity - Conferences" funding opportunity (Opportunity Number IR-ORI-24-001; CFDA 93.085) is a discretionary federal grant announced by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. It uses authority provided by 42 U.S.C. 241 (Section 301 of the Public Health Service Act) and is aimed specifically at supporting the planning and delivery of conferences that strengthen research integrity and help organizations understand and comply with the federal research misconduct regulation at 42 C.F.R. Part 93. The program is essentially designed to bring people together in a structured setting to discuss practical integrity and compliance challenges and to generate concrete products or next steps that can be used beyond the event itself.

Projects funded under this notice must center on organizing and implementing a conference, which can be held in person, virtually, or as a hybrid format. The conference is expected to function as a genuine forum for discussion rather than a one-way informational event, and it must produce tangible outcomes. Those outcomes could include items like published proceedings, consensus statements, training materials, toolkits, model policies, recommended practices, action agendas, or other deliverables that can be shared or adopted by institutions. The content of the conference must align with at least one of the required theme areas: building environments that promote research integrity and responsible conduct of research; preventing research misconduct; improving the effectiveness of handling research misconduct allegations; or addressing other topics clearly linked to research integrity and compliance with 42 C.F.R. Part 93.

The anticipated funding level is modest and targeted, with ORI expecting to make up to four awards for a one-year project period. Individual awards are projected to range from $25,000 to $50,000 in total costs, meaning the ceiling includes both direct and indirect costs. In practice, that suggests ORI is looking for focused, high-impact convenings with clear deliverables and efficient budgets, rather than large multi-year conference series.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of public and nonprofit entities that commonly convene research and compliance communities. Eligible applicants include state, county, city or township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in the nonprofit categories listed). Administrative support for the competition is provided by the OASH Grants and Acquisitions Management Division (GAM), and applicants are explicitly encouraged to follow the full notice carefully for requirements around eligibility documentation, formatting, submission steps, and evaluation criteria.

Key logistical details include an original application closing date of April 11, 2024, and an award ceiling of $50,000 with four expected awards. Overall, the opportunity is geared toward organizations that can credibly convene stakeholders involved in research oversight, compliance, and responsible conduct, and that can translate conference discussions into practical outputs that strengthen integrity systems and improve alignment with federal research misconduct requirements.

• The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the education, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ensuring Research Integrity - Conferences" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.085.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-01-30.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-04-11. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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