Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 
Partnership Development Grants Fall 2015 Competition

Value: $75, 000 – $200,000
Duration: 1 to 3 years
Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: 1 week before agency deadline (allow for 2 weeks before if you wish to receive feedback on your application, and/or if you require additional materials or signatures)
SSHRC: November 30, 2015 (8:00pm Eastern Time)
Results announced: March 2016
Apply via Web-based forms, Web CV

Description:  Partnership Development Grants provide support over one to three years to teams/partnerships, led by a project director, to:

• develop research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including knowledge mobilization and the meaningful involvement of students and new scholars, by fostering new partnerships for research and related activities involving existing and/or potential partners; or
• design and test new partnership approaches for research and/or related activities that may result in best practices or models that either can be adapted by others or have the potential to be scaled up to a regional, national or international level.

Partnerships funding is intended for larger teams working in formal collaboration between postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types. Partner organizations may be Canadian or international institutions or organizations (public, private, not-for-profit) of any type. Please see the definition of formal partnership.

Institutional and partner organization contributions
Applicants are expected to include a plan to seek and secure cash and/or in-kind support for their initiative during the life of the grant (one to three years). While there is no minimum contribution requirement, institutions and their partner organizations are expected to demonstrate that a formal partnership currently exists, or is in the process of being developed, by supporting the activities of the formal partnership through cash and/or in-kind contributions.

A SSHRC Web CV is required for the Project Director and any co-applicants, but is not required for collaborators.

Eligibility: A principal investigator must be eligible to hold a Brescia research account. An individual may not, in a calendar year submit as application (principal investigator/project director) an application for both a Partnership Development Grant and a Partnership Grant.

Informational webinars will be held in October.

For more information visit the SSHRC PDG page