SSHRC accepting Applications for 2020 Partnership Engage Grants

SSHRC accepting Applications for 2020 Partnership Engage Grants – Canada

Deadline: 15-Jun-20

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is inviting applications for the 2020 Partnership Engage Grants.

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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.

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Funding Information

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

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Eligibility Criteria

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. Researchers who maintain an affiliation with a Canadian postsecondary institution, but whose primary affiliation is with a non-Canadian postsecondary institution, are not eligible for applicant status.
Applicants who have received a SSHRC grant of any type but have failed to submit an end of grant 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.
Co-applicants
An individual is eligible to be a co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following:
Canadian: 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.
Evaluation Criteria

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The following criteria and scoring scheme are used to evaluate the applications:

Challenge—The aim and importance of the endeavour (60%):
the research’s relevance to needs, challenges and/or opportunities facing the partner organization;
originality, significance and expected contribution to knowledge and, more specifically, to the partner organization;
appropriateness of the literature review;
appropriateness of the methods and theoretical approach;
quality of training and mentoring to be provided to students, emerging scholars and other highly qualified personnel, and opportunities for them to contribute; and
potential for the project results to have influence and impact within the partner organization and beyond.
Feasibility—The plan to achieve excellence (20%):
probability that the objectives will be met within the timeline proposed;
involvement of the partner organization in the design and conduct of the research and/or related activities;
appropriateness of the requested budget and justification of proposed costs;
indications of other planned resources, including leveraging of cash and in-kind support from the host institution and/or from the partner organization; and
quality and appropriateness of the knowledge mobilization plans, including effective dissemination, exchange and engagement with the partner organization and other stakeholders within and/or beyond the research community.
Capability—The expertise to succeed (20%):
quality, quantity and significance of past experience and published and/or creative outputs of the applicant and any co-applicants relative to their roles in the partnership and to the stage of their career;
evidence of other knowledge mobilization activities (e.g., films, performances, commissioned reports, knowledge syntheses, experience in collaboration / other interactions with stakeholders, contributions to public debate and the media) and of impacts on professional practice, social services and policies, etc.; and
evidence of past contributions to the training and mentoring of students, postdoctoral researchers and highly qualified personnel.
For more information, visit https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/partnership_engage_grants-subventions_d_engagement_partenarial-eng.aspx#4