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Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/partnership_grants-bourses_partenariat-eng.aspx
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Sponsor/Award: |
SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITIES RSRCH COUNCIL - PARTNERSHIP GRANTS - 2011 WINTER COMPETITION - LETTER OF INTENT |
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Grant Amount: |
$20,000 DEVELOPMENT FUNDS |
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Deadline: |
Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: Jan 24, 2011
Sponsor's: Jan 31, 2011
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Subject Areas: |
Social And Economic Issues And Policies, Aboriginal Studies, Environmental, Innovation, Leadership, Digital Media, Northern Communities |
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Description: |
Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years. Partnerships must advance research and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as evidenced by cash and/or in-kind contributions. Partnership Grants undergo a two-stage adjudication process, involving a letter of intent and a formal application. Only applicants successful at the letter of intent stage will be invited to submit a formal application. Value of successful LOI - up to $20,000. Value of Successful Full Application: between $500,000 to $2.5M over four to seven years. The deadline to send first drafts to Research Western is 14 January 2011. Faculty Deadlines can be earlier, please check in with your faculty research office. It is required that applicants contact their faculty research representative (ADR or Grants Facilitator) by January 1 indicating that they wish to apply.
Applicants successful at the letter of intent stage will be offered a grant worth up to $20,000 to help in the preparation of the formal application?i.e., to further refine their research question(s); to establish partnership arrangements, governance structure and/or research methodology; and to consolidate their collaborative activities. At the letter of intent stage, eligible expenses are limited to travel, workshops, meetings, administrative support, and communication and dissemination activities. |
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Application Details: |
The proposals must meet the objectives put forward in one of the following programs or a combination thereof: Insight: To build knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world by supporting research excellence in all subject areas eligible for funding from SSHRC. Connection?To realize the potential of social sciences and humanities research for intellectual, cultural, social and economic influence, benefit and impact on and beyond the campus by supporting specific activities and tools that facilitate the multidirectional flow of research knowledge. Applications must be submitted electronically to an authorized research grants officer from the applicant's institution, who will then electronically forward the application to SSHRC. Incomplete applications will be declared ineligible. Applicants requesting funding under one of the priority areas should identify their Partnership Grant proposal as being related to one of SSHRC's priority areas. Opportunity to do so will be available in the application form. Only those applicants who are successful at the letter of intent stage will be invited to submit a formal application.INDIRECT COSTS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE IN THIS PROGRAM |
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NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline. |
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Western Contacts: |
Pocock,Katy
Russelo,Theresa M
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Sponsor Contacts: |
PARTNERSHIPGRANTS@SSHRC-CRSH.GC.CA
350 ALBERT STREET
P.O. BOX 1610
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
613 992-3145
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