SSHRC

15 grants

Funding opportunities from the SSHRC JavaScript module feed.

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Canada Postdoctoral Research Award

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Scholarship

The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program recognizes and empowers the next generation of outstanding innovators, knowledge workers, creative thinkers and researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. Funding: CAD 70,000 per year.

Deadline: 2026-09-10T20:00:00
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Partnership Engage Grants

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These grants support short-term partnered research activities involving a postsecondary institution and a single organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sectors. Funding: CAD 10,000-50,000.

Deadline: 2026-09-15T20:00:00
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Destination Horizon Grants

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Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals. Funding: CAD 15,000.

Deadline: 2026-09-22T20:00:00
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Enhancing Resilience to Wildfires in the Wildland-Rural Interface

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SSHRC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the United Kingdom’s UK Research and Innovation and the United States’ National Science Foundation invite research teams to submit applications to a joint collaborative research funding call focused on wildfires in the wildland-urban interface. Funding: CAD 750,000.

Deadline: 2026-10-01T11:00:00
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Insight Grants

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Insight Grants support research initiatives of up to five years. Funding: CAD 10,000-500,000.

Deadline: 2026-10-01T20:00:00
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Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Doctoral

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Scholarship

The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Doctoral program recognizes and supports the next generation of outstanding innovators, knowledge workers, creative thinkers and researchers. Funding: CAD 40,000 per year.

Deadline: 2026-10-19T20:00:00
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New Frontiers in Research Fund—Exploration stream

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The Exploration stream supports high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. It seeks to inspire projects and research teams to bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches, and to explore something new that might fail, but has the potential for significant impact. Funding: CAD 250,000.

Deadline: 2026-10-20T20:00:00
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Trans-Atlantic Platform

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SSHRC is partnering with international funding agencies on the fifth Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Call for Proposals. T-AP aims to enhance the ability of funders, research organizations and researchers to engage in transnational dialogue and collaboration. Funding: CAD 250,000.

Deadline: 2026-10-28T00:00:00
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Partnership Grants

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Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. Funding: CAD 2,500,000.

Deadline: 2026-10-29T20:00:00
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Connection Grants

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These grants support short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization events and activities. Funding: CAD 10,000-50,000.

Deadline: 2026-11-02T20:00:00
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Partnership Development Grants

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These grants support the development of partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities. Funding: CAD 75,000-250,000.

Deadline: 2026-11-16T20:00:00
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Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Master’s

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The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship—Master’s program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible master’s or, in some cases, doctoral program in Canada. This support allows these scholars to concentrate more fully on their studies in their chosen fields. Funding: CAD 27,000 per year.

Deadline: 2026-12-01T20:00:00
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Knowledge Synthesis Grants

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The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) offers Knowledge Synthesis Grants (KSG) funding opportunities to address global challenges identified through the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative. All of these global challenges have the potential to have a major impact on Canada and the world in the next decade and to shape society in significant ways. KSGs are not intended to support original research. Rather, they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge and to identify knowledge gaps. Funding: CAD 10,000-78,000.

Deadline: 2026-12-03T20:00:00
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Indigenous Innovation and Leadership in Research Network Grants

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This funding opportunity affirms and seeks to build on First Nations and/or Metis knowledge systems and ontology, epistemology and methodology. Networks should be wholistic, reflecting the full range of collaboration across disciplines and subject areas pertaining to the social sciences and humanities; natural sciences and engineering; and health and wellness. Funding: CAD 1,750,000.

Deadline: 2026-12-03T20:00:00
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German-Canadian International Research Training Group Joint Initiative

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International Research Training Groups (IRTGs), a funding opportunity of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are structured doctoral programs run by German universities in conjunction with institutions abroad. They promote systematic research cooperation through joint research and qualification programs, as well as cooperative, cross-border supervision of doctoral researchers from both partner groups and longer-term, coordinated and reciprocal research visits by doctoral researchers at the respective partner institutions. Funding: CAD 236,000-2,142,000.

Deadline: 2028-04-01T17:59:00
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