Connection Grants — Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research
Canadian Heritage is partnering with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to provide funding support through arms-length Connection Grants. These grants provide assistance to selected events and outreach activities for short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
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Amount
Events: $7,000 to $25,000 over 1 year; outreach activities: $7,000 to $50,000 over 1 year (amounts higher than $50,000 considered with justification); applicants must request a minimum of $7,000
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Who can apply
Applications may be submitted by institutions or individual applicants and teams (consisting of one applicant or project director and one or more co-applicants and/or collaborators).
Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities — as defined on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grants web page — geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
In addition to adhering to SSHRC’s policies and regulations pertaining to the Connection Grants, the proposed projects must also address the broad objectives pertaining to the Joint Initiative as described above.
The Joint Initiative also requires that the proposals focus on 1 or more of the following specific areas:
- creators and propagators of (online) disinformation in a Canadian context
- digital techniques used to spread (online) disinformation in a Canadian context
- sectors of Canadian society more or less vulnerable to (online) disinformation, including how disinformation may specifically affect marginalized, minority and Indigenous communities
- effects of exposure to information and (online) disinformation on Canadians’ individual beliefs behavior as well as overall mental health
- different impacts of (online) disinformation in Canada, including on democratic institutions and elections
- government responses to (online) disinformation
About the funding
Connection Grants supporting events are valued at $7,000 to $25,000 over 1 year.
Connection Grants supporting outreach activities are valued at $7,000 to $50,000 over 1 year. The SSHRC is willing to consider amounts higher than $50,000, although such applications must justify the need for the higher amount, as well as provide evidence the entire award can be managed within the 1-year timeframe.
Applicants must request a minimum of $7,000.
The SSHRC will not fund the full cost of any Connection project. Additional support in the form of eligible cash and/or in-kind contributions (excluding registration fees) equivalent to a minimum of 50% of the amount requested must come from sponsoring organizations.
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All activities must take place within 12 months of the start date indicated on the notice of decision.
In addition to the reporting requirements for the Connection Grants, grant holders will be required to prepare a short paper targeted at the Joint Initiative’s policy objectives and practitioner communities, summarizing the findings of their events or outreach activities.
Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes or other events or outreach activities — as defined on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grants web page — geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
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