Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/03/2025 - 17/04/2025
12:00 am

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Policy Innovation Partnership Grants

Target area 2025: Improving Canada’s Productivity

SSHRC Webinar (see links below): March 26, 2025

Internal Notification of Intent to Apply (required – see attached): April 17, 2025

The Policy Innovation Partnership Grants competition will support and inform public policy aimed at boosting Canada’s productivity. It has been designed to foster long-term, high-impact research for consideration in policy development.

The goal of this pilot funding opportunity is to support a partnership between a postsecondary research entity and one or more federal government departments to establish a long-term research program focusing on specific topics in an area of importance to Canada and public decision-makers.  If the pilot is deemed successful, the funding opportunity will be offered periodically, subject to availability of funds. Each competition will focus on a new target area in which research in the social sciences and humanities is well positioned to make an impact. 

Value

Up to $400,000 per year over 15 years, up to a total of $6 million. Only one partnership will be funded in Canada for this competition. An impact review will be conducted every 5 years to assess the relevance of the partnership and determine whether funding will continue.

Description of partnership

The successful partnership is expected to advance research, capacity, and policy development in the target area by:

• engaging one or more Canadian federal government departments to identify and address public policy needs; other partner organizations can be Canadian or international institutions or organizations (public, private, not-for-profit) of any type, including provincial or municipal government departments.
• conducting long-term research that generates knowledge with the potential to inform federal policy-making;
• working with, adapting and/or developing comprehensive datasets relevant to the needs of the public policy community and future researchers;
• improving access and use of research knowledge within Canada’s policy-making communities; and
• supporting high-quality training experiences for students and/or postdoctoral researchers.

Webinar

SSHRC will hold webinars for applicants and research administrators at the following times:

• Wednesday, March 26, at 11:00 a.m. eastern in French – Join Webinar
• Wednesday, March 26, at 1:00 p.m. eastern in English – Join Webinar

Internal Notification of Intent to Apply

Those intending to apply are required to complete the attached form and return it to Pamela McIntyre, Associate Director, Development mcintyp@mcmaster.ca by April 17, 2025.

Faculty approval will be required.

More information:
Additional information regarding the Policy Innovation Partnership Grants can be found on the SSHRC website HERE