that sets guidelines, principles and mechanisms to support other kinds of projects and activities.
Funding is typically organized via <a href="/vocabulary/Grant" class="text-brand-9">Grant</a> funding. Examples of funding schemes: Swiss Priority Programmes (SPPs); EU Framework 7 (FP7); Horizon 2020; the NIH-R01 Grant Program; Wellcome institutional strategic support fund. For large scale public sector funding, the management and administration of grant awards is often handled by other, dedicated, organizations - <a href="/vocabulary/FundingAgency" class="text-brand-9">FundingAgency</a>s such as ERC, REA, ...| Property | Expected Type | description |
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| actionableFeedbackPolicy | CreativeWork URL | For a NewsMediaOrganization or other news-related Organization, a statement about public engagement activities (for news media, the newsroom’s), including involving the public - digitally or otherwise -- in coverage decisions, reporting and activities after publication. |
| address | Text PostalAddress | Physical address of the item. |
| aggregateRating | The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item. | |
| alumni | Alumni of an organization. | |
| areaServed | The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided. | |
| award | Text | An award won by or for this item. |
| awards | Text | Awards won by or for this item. |
| brand | The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person. | |
| businessStructure | ||
| contactPoint | A contact point for a person or organization. | |
| contactPoints | A contact point for a person or organization. | |
| correctionsPolicy | URL CreativeWork | For an Organization (e.g. NewsMediaOrganization), a statement describing (in news media, the newsroom’s) disclosure and correction policy for errors. |
| department | A relationship between an organization and a department of that organization, also described as an organization (allowing different urls, logos, opening hours). For example: a store with a pharmacy, or a bakery with a cafe. | |
| dissolutionDate | Date | The date that this organization was dissolved. |
| diversityPolicy | URL CreativeWork | Statement on diversity policy by an Organization e.g. a NewsMediaOrganization. For a NewsMediaOrganization, a statement describing the newsroom’s diversity policy on both staffing and sources, typically providing staffing data. |
| diversityStaffingReport | Article URL | For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a report on staffing diversity issues. In a news context this might be for example ASNE or RTDNA (US) reports, or self-reported. |
| duns | Text | The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person. |
Text | Email address. | |
| employee | Someone working for this organization. | |
| employees | People working for this organization. | |
| ethicsPolicy | CreativeWork URL | Statement about ethics policy, e.g. of a NewsMediaOrganization regarding journalistic and publishing practices, or of a Restaurant, a page describing food source policies. In the case of a NewsMediaOrganization, an ethicsPolicy is typically a statement describing the personal, organizational, and corporate standards of behavior expected by the organization. |
| event | Upcoming or past event associated with this place, organization, or action. | |
| events | Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization. | |
| faxNumber | Text | A string representing a fax number. |
| founder | A person who founded this organization. | |
| founders | A person who founded this organization. | |
| foundingDate | Date | The date that this organization was founded. |
| foundingLocation | The place where the Organization was founded. | |
| funder | A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution. | |
| funding | A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. | |
| globalLocationNumber | Text | The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations. |
| hasCredential | A credential awarded to the Person or Organization. | |
| hasMerchantReturnPolicy | Specifies a MerchantReturnPolicy that may be applicable. | |
| hasOfferCatalog | Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service. | |
| hasPOS | Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person. | |
| interactionStatistic | The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used. | |
| isicV4 | Text | International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4) code identifying either an entity’s activity or an industry category (section, division, group, or class). |
| iso6523Code | Text | |
| keywords | Keywords or tags used to describe some item. Multiple textual entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas, or by repeating the property. | |
| knowsAbout | Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions. | |
| knowsLanguage | Text Language | Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. |
| legalName | Text | The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name. |
| leiCode | Text | An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442. |
| location | The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place. | |
| logo | ImageObject URL | An associated logo. |
| makesOffer | A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person. | |
| member | A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals. | |
| memberOf | An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs. | |
| members | A member of this organization. | |
| naics | Text | North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identifying either an entity’s classified activity or an industry category (sector, subsector, industry group, industry, or national industry). |
| nonprofitStatus | nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business. | |
| numberOfEmployees | The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business. | |
| organizerType | ||
| ownershipFundingInfo | For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a description of organizational ownership structure; funding and grants. In a news/media setting, this is with particular reference to editorial independence. Note that the funder is also available and can be used to make basic funder information machine-readable. | |
| owns | Products owned by the organization or person. | |
| parentOrganization | The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any. | |
| publishingPrinciples | CreativeWork URL | The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual, e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork. While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology. |
| review | A review of the item. | |
| reviews | Review of the item. | |
| seeks | A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand). | |
| serviceArea | The geographic area where the service is provided. | |
| slogan | Text | A slogan or motto associated with the item. |
| sponsor | A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event. | |
| subOrganization | A relationship between two organizations where the first includes the second, e.g., as a subsidiary. See also: the more specific 'department' property. | |
| taxID | Text | The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain. |
| telephone | Text | The telephone number. Including the international dialing prefix. |
| unnamedSourcesPolicy | CreativeWork URL | For an Organization (typically a NewsMediaOrganization), a statement about policy on use of unnamed sources and the decision process required. |
| vatID | Text | The Value-added Tax ID of the organization or person. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| activationSubmittedAt | DateTime | The time at which the activation form was submitted. |
| businessType | ||
| existingCustomers | Boolean | Indicates whether a provider has existing customers when applying for activation. |
| providerSubTypes | ||
| providerType | ||
| statusChanges | Tracks the status changes of an account and the metadata associated with each change. |
| Property | Expected Type | description |
|---|---|---|
| additionalType | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally. |
| alternateName | Text | An alias for the item. |
| description | Text | A description of the item. |
| disambiguatingDescription | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. |
| identifier | The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. | |
| image | URL ImageObject | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject. |
| instanceOf | Type to which this subject belongs. Use for membership in a value set (Enumeration), not inheritance. Example: K2 instanceOf mountain; volcano subClassOf mountain. | |
| mainEntityOfPage | URL CreativeWork | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. |
| name | Text | The name of the item. |
| potentialAction | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. | |
| sameAs | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. |
| subjectOf | A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. | |
| url | URL | URL of the item. |