SSHRC: Inviting Applicants for Connection Grants Program

Deadline: 1 February 2019

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is inviting applicants for its “Connection Grants” that support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social sciences;
scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the humanities and social sciences and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

Funding Information

Connection Grants supporting events are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

Eligibility Criteria

Applications may be submitted by institutions, or individual applicants and teams.
Institutional Connection Grant applications must be submitted by an eligible Canadian institution to conduct an event or outreach activity, or series thereof, in order to attain strategic objectives relevant to the institution’s mission and mandate. The project director must be affiliated with the host institution (the applicant), prepares the application on behalf of the host institution and is responsible for the overall leadership of the project. The term “institution” from hereon in this description refers to both postsecondary institutions and not for profit organizations.
Individual Connection Grant applicants (except postdoctoral researchers) must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution at the time of application to conduct an event or outreach activity, or series thereof, that primarily falls within the applicants’ domain of expertise and that will, ultimately, allow them to make a significant contribution to their field of research. In the case of a team approach, all team members must meet the eligibility criteria specific to their role.
Co-applicants
- An individual is eligible to be a co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following:
  - Canadian: Eligible postsecondary institution; not-for-profit organization; philanthropic foundation; think tank; or municipal, territorial or provincial government.
  - International: Postsecondary institution.