Deadline: 1-Feb-21
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is seeking applications for its Connection Grants Program to support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
SSHRC collaborates with organizations from across the not-for-profit, private and public sectors to support and promote training, research and connection activities in the social sciences and humanities. SSHRC’s joint initiatives are designed to reflect its strategic objectives and mandate, inform decision-makers, and, in certain cases, address specific needs of its partners.
These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage with participants on research issues of value to them. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Funding Information
- Connection Grants supporting events are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.
- Connection Grants supporting outreach activities are valued at $7,000 to $50,000 over one year.
- A minimum request of $7,000 is required.
- SSHRC is willing to consider amounts higher than $50,000, although such applications must satisfactorily justify the need for the higher amount, as well as provide evidence the entire award can be managed within the one-year timeframe.
Activities
Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:
- Disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
- 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 social sciences and humanities 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.
Ineligible Activities
Although applicants can apply for Connection Grants to support eligible events and outreach activities organized by academic associations, the following association activities are not eligible for funding:
- Annual general meetings or any other activity directly related to an association’s business meetings;
- Book launches or similar report dissemination;
- Receptions for association members; and
- Any activities normally paid for by the association’s operating fees.
Eligibility Criteria
Participants or audiences, in Canada and abroad, for both events and outreach activities, can include, among others:
- Academic researchers;
- Non-academic researchers;
- Policy-makers;
- Professional practitioners;
- Representatives from public, private or not-for-profit organizations;
- Representatives from community-based, local or regional non-academic organizations; and/or
- Students at all levels.
For more information, visit https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/connection_grants-subventions_connexion-eng.aspx