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ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE FOR CANADA’S FUTURE ENABLING EXCELLENCE, BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS, CONNECTING RESEARCH TO CANADIANS LORRAINE ANDERSON NOVEMBER 6, 2018
ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE FOR CANADA’S FUTURE
ENABLING EXCELLENCE, BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS, CONNECTING RESEARCH TO
CANADIANS
LORRAINE ANDERSON NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Our role
Federal agency mandated to
promote and support
postsecondary-based research
and training in the social
sciences and humanities
Through grants, fellowships and scholarships
SSHRC:
↘ Trains the next generation of talented,
creative thinkers and doers
↘ Builds knowledge and understanding
about people, cultures and societies
↘ Drives the innovations that address the
challenges of today and tomorrow
SSHRC’S COMMUNITY
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Community
21,000 Doctoral
students in SSH
61,000 Masters
students in SSH
24,000 full-time
SSH faculty
teachers
SSHRC Support (as of 2017-2018)
9,900 Awards
20,200 Researchers
Supported↘ 3,700 International Researchers
9,000 Students Supported↘ 4,700 Directly (scholarships)↘ 4,300 Indirectly (grants)
3,600 Partners↘ 400 Industry Partners
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
TALENTBuilding the next generation
of leaders and equipping
them for research-intensive
careers across the economy
and society
INSIGHTFostering research-based
knowledge about people
CONNECTIONSupporting the flow and
exchange of that knowledge
within and beyond academe.
• Master’s Scholarships
• Doctoral Scholarships
• Postdoctoral
Fellowships
• Insight Development Grants
• Insight Grants
• Support to institutions
• Connection Grants
• Support for Journals
• Knowledge Synthesis Grants
↘ Partnership Development
Grants↘ Partnership Grants
↘ Partnership Engage Grants
PARTNERSHIPS
Within the academic community and between academia,
industry, government, not-for-profits and communities
PARTNERSHIPS
POST-SECONDARY $34.6 M
GOVERNMENT $5.6 M
INDUSTRY $9.7 M
NOT-FOR-PROFIT $12.2 M
56%
9%
15%
20%SSHRC funds partnerships through Partnership<
Partnership Engage, and Partnership Development
Grants to:
↘ conduct research;
↘ mobilize knowledge; and,
↘ train future researchers.
For 2017-18, 900 new Partners are expected to
contribute $62.0 M over 7 years.
Between 2013 and 2017 (last 5 years) SSHRC support
facilitated…
• 450 formal partnership projects
• 3,300 partner organizations
• $245 M in partner contributions (cash and in-kind)
SSHRC’s Partnership Suite
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Partnership Engage Grants (PEG)
Partnership Development Grants (PDG)
Partnership Grants (PG)
Value: $7K to $25K
Duration: 1 year
Key features:
• Formal partnership with a single partner from the public, private or NFP sectors
• One stage adjudication
Upcoming deadlines: Sept. 15, Dec. 15, March 15 and June 15
Questions: [email protected]
Value: $75K to $200K
Duration: 1 to 3 years
Key features:
• Formal partnership
• One stage adjudication
Upcoming deadline: Nov. 15, 2018
Questions: [email protected]
Value: $500K to $2.5M
Duration: 4 to 7 years
Key features:
• Formal partnership
• Two-stage adjudication (second stage by invitation)
Upcoming deadline: Feb. 15, 2019
Questions: [email protected]
Cash and In-Kind Contributions
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Applicants for any SSHRC grant may fund their projects by drawing on
complementary funding from other sources (cash and or/kind contributions).
In partnership funding opportunities at SSHRC a cash/and or in-kind
contribution from partners is expected.
In-kind contributions are non-monetary resources provided to support the
project.
Sources of cash and/or in-kind contributions:
Host institution (institution administering the grant)
Partner organizations
Other contributors
For more details and examples see SSHRC’s Guidelines for Cash and In-
Kind Contributions
Insight Grants – Objectives & Features
Deadline: annually on October 15th
APPLICANT
DURATION
Principal Investigator
Co-applicants and/or Collaborators
(from academic, public, private or not-for-profit
sectors)
2 - 5 years
VALUE $7,000 - $100,000 (Stream A)
$100,001 - $400,000 (Stream B)
IDG Objectives and features
• APPLICANT
• CO-APPLICANT
Principal investigator
Scholars affiliated with a postsecondary institution may be abroad)
• COLLABORATORS Academic, public, private, not-for-profit sectors
• LENGTH
• VALUE
1 to 2 years
$7,000 - $75,000
• APPLICATION
• DEADLINE
One-step application process
annually on February 2nd
Research Tools
May be eligible if integrated into a research project:
• tools that facilitate access to holdings or collections,
such as the development of—and research costs
related to—repository guides, inventories,
documentary materials, or special indexes.
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Eligible expenses within grants
• Digitization: costs are eligible if integrated into a
research project
• Cost of developing web-based information, including
maintenance fees when related to dissemination of
research results.
All SSHRC-funded projects must have a
significant research component.
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