The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is seeking applications for its Connection Grants Program. These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. 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.

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.

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.

Participants and Audiences

Participants or audiences, in Canada and abroad, for both events and outreach activities, may include, among others, any of the following:

• academic researchers;
• non-academic researchers;
• policy-makers;
• professional practitioners;
• representatives from organizations in the public, private or not-for-profit sectors;
• representatives from community-based, local or regional non-academic organizations; and/or
• students at all levels.

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 Connection Grants