SSHRC Partnership Grants—Stage 2
Aboriginal Peoples
Arctic and Northern Regions
Community, Regional & Enterprise Development
Creative Arts, Culture and Heritage
Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
Governance and Public Policy
Information and Communication Technology
Oceans, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Social Justice
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 22nd, October 2026
External Deadline: Thursday 29th, October 2026
Description
By invitation only
RIS will be offering support with application development for this opportunity. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Jennifer Stevens (v5js@mun.ca) or Amanda Crompton (ajcrompt@mun.ca) early during the development process to discuss the services available to them.
Partnership Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research partnerships program. Proposals exclusively for partnered research training initiatives are expected to respond, instead, to the objectives of the Research training and talent development program.
These grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. This is done through mutual cooperation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources such as cash and/or in-kind contributions.
Partnership Grants are intended for large teams of postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types that work in formal collaboration.
The quality of training, mentoring and employability plans for students and emerging scholars will be evaluated as an important part of the proposed initiative. SSHRC’s Guidelines for effective research training explain how students and emerging scholars can meaningfully participate in proposed initiatives.
The intellectual leadership and governance for a new or existing formal partnership can come from the research community and/or partner organizations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. However, only an institution that meets the institutional eligibility requirements can administer the grant funding. For more information, see Eligibility.
SSHRC’s Partnerships Tool-Kit offers tools and resources to assist in the planning and implementation of your partnership.
Types of partnerships
There are two categories of partnerships that can request support:
- existing partnerships to foster new research and/or research-related partnership activities that are distinct from the partnership’s previous/ongoing partnership activities; and
- new partnerships to foster new research and/or research-related partnership activities that are undertaken by partnerships in their initial stages.
Stage 2 (by invitation only): Using the funds awarded in the successful Stage 1 application, Stage 2 applicants:
- – further refine the question(s) to be addressed;
- – establish partnership arrangements, a governance structure and/or an approach/methodology; and
- – consolidate their collaborative activities.
Partnership Grants awarded at Stage 2 are valued at up to $500,000 per year over four to seven years, up to a total of $2.5 million.
See SSHRC‘s website for more information.
Application deadline: October 29, 2026 (8:00 p.m. eastern)