Request for Proposals: Destination Horizon Grants (Canada)

Objectives

• The objectives of the Research Partnerships program are to:
  • Strengthen knowledge and understanding by leveraging perspectives from across multiple disciplines and sectors;
  • Support collaboration among postsecondary institutions, and between postsecondary institutions and organizations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, to co-create knowledge and increase use of research outputs;
  • Mobilize research knowledge, within academia and other sectors, that can lead to intellectual, cultural, social and economic outputs and outcomes;
  • Increase the accessibility and use of research knowledge within and beyond the postsecondary sector;
  • Support a high-quality training experience for students and/or postdoctoral researchers.

Funding Information

• Destination Horizon Grants are valued at up to $15,000 for one year.

Uses of the Fund

• Grant funds cannot be used to provide salaries or stipends to applicants, co-applicants or collaborators, regardless of an individual’s eligibility to apply for grants.
• Tri-agency grant funds cannot be used to remunerate team members (applicant, co-applicant or collaborator). This includes postdoctoral fellows serving in any of these capacities.
• Grant funds cannot be used to provide salaries or stipends to the grantee or to other individuals whose status would make them eligible to apply for grants from the agency.
• Grant funds cannot be used to pay for research activities.
• Course release time to allow an individual to engage in research is not an eligible expense.
• Consultation fees are eligible for expert and/or professional and technical services that contribute directly to the proposal, so long as the service is not provided by a team member or others eligible to apply for a SSHRC grant.
• Expenses to facilitate equitable, inclusive and accessible participation in the research are eligible.

Eligible Activities

• Disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges;
• Scholarly exchanges;
• Intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors;
• International research collaboration and scholarly exchanges between researchers affiliated with Canadian postsecondary institutions and researchers, students and non-academic partners from the EU and other associated countries.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for this funding opportunity, applicants must demonstrate:
  • Their eligible affiliation and primary affiliation in the social sciences or humanities;
  • Their readiness to further develop networks and/or consortia with EU and other associated countries’ researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to a Horizon Europe—Pillar II call;
  • Eligible budget requests; and
  • 100% matching cash contributions from the host institution.
• Applicants:
  • Applications can 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 a Canadian postsecondary institution that holds institutional eligibility at the time of application. Researchers who maintain an affiliation with a Canadian institution that holds institutional eligibility, 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 and students are not eligible for applicant or co-applicant status for a Destination Horizon Grant.
  • Federal scientists affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution must demonstrate that their proposed research or research-related activity is not related to either the mandate of their employer or the normal duties for which they receive payment from that employer.
  • If the proposal falls within the mandate of the federal government and the research or research-related activity is performed in government facilities, funding can only be allocated for student salaries, stipends and travel costs.
• Institutions:
  • Grant funds can be administered only by an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution. Institutions proposing to administer a grant awarded under this funding opportunity must hold or obtain institutional eligibility.

Selection Criteria

• Randomized selection process
  • Eligible applications will have their application number entered into a random number generator. This random number generator operates by using an independent random number generation code as a seed value to then inform the Excel RAND function.
  • Grants will then be selected, in order, from the lowest random number to the highest random number until the financial resources allocated to the competition are exhausted.
• Communication of results
  • SSHRC makes competition results available to applicants and institutions.

For more information, visit Government of Canada.