Sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Sponsor program link: Funding opportunity details
Value: $7,000 to $25,000 for events | up to $50,000 for other outreach activities; higher amounts for outreach activities may be considered if well justified | 1 year (no automatic extensions)
SSHRC will not fund the full cost of any connection event or outreach activity. Additional support in the form of cash and /or in kind contributions (excluding registration fees) equivalent to a minimum of 50 per cent of the amount requested from SSHRC must come from other sources, such as sponsors.
Objectives: To 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 on research issues of value to those participating.
Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:
- Disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social sciences;
- 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 humanities and social sciences and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
- International research collaboration and scholarly exchanges between researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.
Note: Particular importance will be placed on applications proposing open-access and open-source approaches to knowledge mobilization.
Proposals must also include a plan for the maintenance, lifespan, dissemination and preservation of any resulting digital data.
Application deadlines:
- January 28 Noon: OGPR internal signature deadline. Applicants should email Robert Olaj a PDF of their proposal with a completed, signed and scanned ORS Research Project Information Form.
- January 29: Robert Olaj in the OGPR will email your PDF application and signed RPIF to ORS on your behalf.
- February 2 (1st is a Sunday): SSHRC national deadline (next rounds: Feb. May 1, Aug. 1, Nov. 1 )
Special notes: See above for requisite 50% matching requirement. Applicants/project directors or Co-Applicants on any project funded through a SSHRC Connection Grant that is still active are not eligible to apply for an individual Connection Grant. Co-Applicants for Connections Grants (only) may be from non-academic organizations.