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Partnership Engage Grants

June 12, 2025

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External Funding

SSHRC Funding

Partnership Engage 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.

Visit the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) website for more information on the Partnership Engage Grants.

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Value and Duration

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

Overview

Partnership Engage Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program.

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 the 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.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous research, as well as those involving research-creation.

Eligibility

Subject Matter

Proposals may involve any disciplines, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas eligible for SSHRC funding. See subject matter eligibility for more information.

Projects whose primary objective is curriculum development are not eligible for funding under this opportunity.

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. 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 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 Partnership Engage Grants

Deadlines

How to Apply

  1. Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database cuResearch.
  2. Submit an external application to SSHRC.

Contact Us

Please contact your Faculty Research Facilitator to discuss this funding opportunity.

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