This presentation was held in the course of the session "Communicating the value of PIDs and metadata: what’s in it for me, what’s in it for you?" of the NISOPlus 2023 Conference. In this presentation Antonia C. Schrader, Open Science Officer at the Helmholtz Open Science Office (Germany), told the story of the project ORCID DE, which is a project driven success story. She shared the experiences her project colleagues and she made during the two funding phases from 2016 until the end of 2022 and gave an outlook on what the team is going to work on next.