The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has launched a call for applications for the Partnership Development Grants Program.

Two categories of partnerships can request support:

• existing partnerships to foster new research and/or research-related partnership activities that are distinct from the partnership’s previous/ongoing partnership activities; and
• new partnerships to foster new research and/or research-related partnership activities that are undertaken by partnerships in their initial stages.

Funding Information

Partnership Development Grants are valued at $75,000 to $200,000, over one to three years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications may be submitted by a team of researchers (consisting of one applicant / project director and one or more co-applicants and/or collaborators). The applicant / project director prepares the application on behalf of the partner organizations of the formal partnership.
• Applicants (except postdoctoral researchers and students) must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian institution at the time of application. Researchers who maintain an affiliation with a Canadian postsecondary institution, but whose primary affiliation is with a non-Canadian postsecondary institution, are not eligible for applicant status.
• Applicants who have received a SSHRC grant of any type but have failed to submit an achievement report by the deadline specified in their Notice of Award are not eligible to apply for another SSHRC grant until they have submitted the report.
• Postdoctoral researchers are eligible to be applicants if they have formally established an affiliation with an eligible institution within five months of the grant start date, and maintain such an affiliation for the duration of the grant period.
• Students enrolled in a program of study are not eligible to apply. However, a PhD candidate is eligible to apply if they:
  • will have met all requirements for the PhD before the grant is awarded, including all course work and successful defence of their dissertation; and
  • establish a formal affiliation with an eligible institution within five months of the grant start date, and maintain such an affiliation for the duration of the grant period.

An individual (including postdoctoral researchers) 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
• PhD candidates are eligible to be co-applicants under the same conditions as those described for an applicant.

For more information, visit SSHRC.