Connection Grants │ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Events are short-term activities that are usually completed in a week or less (e.g., a two-day conference or a one-week workshop). The bulk of the activities will happen within this short period. As part of the overall proposal, applicants may request support for longer-term activities directly related to the event (e.g., developing proceedings, publications or reports, or other forms of knowledge synthesis).

Proposed events can be:

• face-to-face or involve virtual interaction;
• discipline-specific, or cross-disciplinary and/or cross-sectoral; and
• open- or closed-invitation.

Proposed outreach activities must be designed to engage a broader public in social sciences and humanities knowledge through one or a combination of the following: knowledge dissemination, transfer, brokering, translation, synthesis, exchange, networking or co-creation beyond what would typically be achieved through an event. Proposed activities can include, but are not limited to:

• adaptation (including translation, for example, into French, English or Indigenous languages) of texts or presentations for the purpose of broader knowledge mobilization to different audiences;
• development of policy briefs, knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews;
• development of articles for print or online publication in newspapers or weekly or monthly magazines—whether specialized or general interest;
• virtual networking;
• media events (such as television/radio presentations);
• summer schools/institutes;
• speaker series;
• public debates;
• artistic exhibits, performances or festivals;
• development/use of interactive technologies, audio-visual products or software; and/or
• development/use of educational aids, instruments or equipment.