Partnership Engage Grants │ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Applicants

• Applications may be submitted by an individual researcher or a team of researchers (consisting of one applicant and one or more co-applicants and/or collaborators).
• Applicants must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution at the time of application.
• Applicants who have received a SSHRC grant of any type but have failed to submit an achievement report by the deadline specified in their Notice of Award are not eligible to apply for another SSHRC grant until they have submitted the report.
• Postdoctoral researchers are eligible to be applicants if they have formally established an affiliation with an eligible institution at the time of application, and maintain such an affiliation for the duration of the grant period.
• Students are not eligible for applicant or co-applicant status on a Partnership Engage Grant.

Institutions

• Grant funds can only be administered by an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution. Institutions proposing to administer a grant awarded under this funding opportunity must hold or obtain institutional eligibility.
• Institutions must contact Corporate Strategy and Performance to begin the institutional eligibility application process, or if they have questions about institutional eligibility.

Co-applicants

• An individual is eligible to be a co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following:
  • Canadian: Eligible postsecondary institution; not-for-profit organization; philanthropic foundation; think tank; or municipal, territorial or provincial government.
  • International: Postsecondary institution.
• Postdoctoral researchers who are affiliated with a postsecondary institution are eligible to be co-applicants.

Collaborators

• Any individual who makes a significant contribution to the project is eligible to be a collaborator. Collaborators do not need to be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution.
• Individuals from the private sector or federal government can only participate as collaborators.

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, as well as any organization or association affiliated with or servicing them, are not eligible as partner organizations.
• Partner organizations are expected to support the activities of the partnership through cash and/or in-kind contributions.
• Researchers involved in formal partnerships that have more than one partner organization are encouraged to apply for Partnership Development Grants or Partnership Grants.