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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Partnership Engage Grants

 

Notify ROADS of Intent to Apply: May 5, 2025

Draft application due to ROADS: May 26, 2025

Final Application due to ROADS by June 9, 2025

*Sponsor Deadline: June 15, 2025

Please email your senior advisor with your intent to apply:  Amanda Graveline – gravelia@mcmaster.ca

*If a deadline falls on a weekend or a public holiday observed in Ontario, where SSHRC’s offices are, the online application system will stay open until 8 p.m. (eastern) the next business day.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is now accepting applications for the Partnership Engage Grants competition. SSHRC has established the following deadlines for Partnership Engage Grant competitions: September 15, December 15, March 15 and June 15.

Partnership Engage Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of Research partnerships program.

These grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

Proposals can involve any disciplines, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas eligible for SSHRC funding. See subject matter eligibility for more information. SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

For tools and resources to assist in the planning and implementation of your partnership, see SSHRC’s Partnerships Tool-Kit.

Value

Partnership Engage Grants are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over one year.

Eligibility

Partner organizations

Only one Canadian or international organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector can be involved as a partner organization. Postsecondary institutions and scholarly associations are not eligible as partner organizations. Organizations collaborating with postsecondary institutions (e.g., a network) can be considered eligible as long as they are a separate entity from the postsecondary institution (i.e., a stand-alone organization in the not-for-profit, private or public sector). The partner organization must be at arm’s length (independent) from the academic institution and the applicant. A partner organization is not at arm’s length if the applicant:

• has an ownership position in the partner organization;
• is employed by the partner organization in any role, whether salaried or not; or
• is related (i.e., connected by blood relationship, marriage or common-law partnership or adoption) to a person who controls, or who is a member of a governing board that controls, the partner organization.

The partner organization must be under the effective day-to-day management control of someone other than the postsecondary institution, applicant, co-applicant(s) or other participant with financial authority on the grant (in a private sector organization this precludes these individuals from holding key executive positions, such as president, CEO, chief scientific officer or vice-president R&D).

While cash and/or in-kind contributions are not mandatory, partner organizations are expected to support the activities of the partnership through these contributions.

Researchers involved in formal partnerships that have more than one partner organization are encouraged to apply for Partnership Development Grants or Partnership Grants.

Subject Matter

Most SSHRC funding is awarded through open competitions. Proposals can involve any disciplines, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas eligible for SSHRC funding. See the guidelines on subject matter eligibility for more information.

Projects whose primary objective is curriculum development, preparation of teaching materials, program evaluation, organization of a conference or workshop, digitization of a collection, or creation of a database are not eligible for funding under this funding opportunity.

Types of partnerships

Following are some possible formal partnership approaches. Applicants are in no way limited to these approaches and are welcome to combine some of the features described below.

• Cross-sector co-creation of knowledge and understanding: Partnerships to foster innovative research, training and the co-creation of new knowledge on critical issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance.
• Partnered knowledge mobilization: Partnerships designed to synthesize, apply and mobilize new and existing social sciences and humanities research knowledge in accessible ways to build institutional capacity and to increase the national and international impact and stature of Canadian research.

Application Process

If you intend to submit an application, please contact Amanda Graveline, Senior Advisor, Development, ROADS, at gravelia@mcmaster.ca, by May 5, 2025.

The initial draft of the application and letters of support are due to the Research Office for Administration, Development and Support (ROADS), by 9 am May 26, 2025. Please note, applications received after this time may not receive a full review.

The final draft, and a completed and signed Application Approval Form, are due to ROADS by 9 am June 9, 2025.

ROADS will submit the application to SSHRC by 4:30 pm on June 16, 2025.

More information:

Additional information regarding the Partnership Engage Grants Program can be found on the

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) website at:

http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/partnership_engage_grants-subventions_d_engagement_partenarial-eng.aspx.