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Connection Grants
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Grant
These grants support short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization events and activities. Funding: CAD 10,000-50,000.
Deadline: 2026-08-04T20:00:00
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Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative Connection Grants
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Grant
The Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative Connection Grants are a one-time initiative intended to support interdisciplinary and intersectoral events and outreach activities focused on short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization, bringing together those working to advance sustainable agricultural sectors and food systems to support a just transition to net-zero in Canada. Funding: CAD 10,000-50,000.
Deadline: 2026-08-04T20:00:00
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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
Active
Grant
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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Grant
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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Grant
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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Grant
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
Active
Grant
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
Active
Grant
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
Active
Grant
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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Partnership Development Grants
Active
Grant
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
Active
Scholarship
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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Grant
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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Canada Research Training Awards Suite—Research Travel Supplements
Closed
Scholarship
The Canada Research Training Awards Suite—Research Travel Supplements provide additional funding to active master’s and doctoral award holders, to help offset the costs of undertaking research travel within or outside Canada for a defined period. Funding: CAD 9,000.
Deadline: 2026-06-10T20:00:00
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Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
Closed
Scholarship / Fellowship
The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards are a one-time initiative designed to recruit international or returning Canadian students and postdoctoral researchers to Canada. These awards support the recruitment of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in priority areas, helping build capacity, strengthen the research ecosystem and enhance Canada’s global competitiveness. Funding: CAD 40,000-70,000.
Deadline: 2026-06-03T20:00:00
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South Africa-Canada Seed Grant for Collaborative Research
Closed
Grant
SSHRC and South Africa’s National Research Foundation invite research teams to submit applications to participate in a Seed Grant to build capacity, foster new and existing partnerships, and develop networks and/or consortia among the Canadian and South African research communities focused on key areas of mutual interest between Canada and South Africa. Funding: CAD 100,000.
Deadline: 2026-05-28T20:00:00
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SSHRC Impact Awards
Closed
Award or prize
SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their achievements in research, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or completely by SSHRC. Funding: CAD 50,000-100,000.
Deadline: 2026-04-01T20:00:00
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Insight Development Grants
Closed
Grant
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. Funding: CAD 10,000-100,000.
Deadline: 2026-02-02T20:00:00
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Convening the Canadian Meta-Research Community Connection Grant
Closed
Grant
These grants support short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization events and activities intended to enhance metaresearch and its application in Canada. Funding: CAD 10,000-50,000.
Deadline: 2026-02-02T20:00:00
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Indigenous Innovation and Leadership in Research Network Grants
Closed
Grant
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: 2025-11-04T20:00:00
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Artificial intelligence humanities sandpit
Closed
Grant
SSHRC and UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council invite researchers to submit expressions of interest to participate in a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research “sandpit” (a facilitated, collaborative process through which new research teams and project ideas are developed and selected for funding) to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligence tech design. Funding: CAD 200,000.
Deadline: 2025-10-30T12:00:00
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Indigenous Science and the Impacts of Plastic Pollution
Closed
Grant
This joint initiative between SSHRC and Environment and Climate Change Canada provides research funding support through Research Partnerships grants to address knowledge gaps about the impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous communities through the various stages of the plastic lifecycle. Funding: CAD 237,500.
Deadline: 2025-10-16T20:00:00
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Indigenous Capacity and Leadership in Research Connection Grants
Closed
Grant
These grants aim to contribute to Indigenous leadership and self-determination in research by funding events and activities representing opportunities to engage and exchange knowledge on successful ways of conducting Indigenous research that are transformative and contribute to Indigenous-led research, including holistic and distinctions-based approaches. Funding: CAD 50,000.
Deadline: 2025-09-23T20:00:00
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Aid to Scholarly Journals
Closed
Grant
Aid to Scholarly Journals grants are meant to increase access to, and readership of, original research results in the social sciences and humanities through Canadian scholarly journals. Funding: CAD 42,400-52,000 per year.
Deadline: 2025-09-10T20:00:00
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Policy Innovation Partnership Grants
Closed
Grant
These grants are meant to support a partnership between a postsecondary research entity and one or more federal government departments to establish a long-term research program focusing on specific topics in an area of importance to Canada and public decision-makers. Funding: CAD 6,000,000.
Deadline: 2025-09-10T20:00:00
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Research on Research Joint Initiative
Closed
Grant
The Research on Research Joint Initiative gathers evidence and data, undertakes experiments and develops tools to improve how research is funded, practiced, communicated and evaluated. Funding: CAD 200,000.
Deadline: 2025-02-20T20:00:00
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Storytellers Challenge
Closed
Award or prize
SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. Funding: CAD 3,000-4,000.
Deadline: 2025-01-21T17:00:00
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SSHRC Institutional Grants
Closed
Grant
Through its SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG) funding opportunity, SSHRC provides annual grants to help eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions fund, through their own merit review processes, small-scale research and research-related activities by their faculty and students in the social sciences and humanities. Funding: CAD 5,000 per year.
Deadline: 2024-12-01T20:00:00
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Scholarly Book Awards
Closed
Grant
Through this program (formerly the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program), the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences provides grants to scholarly books in Canada that make important contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Funding: CAD 8,000-30,000.
Deadline: 2024-01-01T20:00:00
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Network on Sustainable Agriculture in a Net-Zero Economy
Closed
Grant
This joint initiative between SSHRC and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada supports the establishment of a research network to maximize learning outcomes in the social sciences and humanities for research in the area of agriculture, climate and the environment as it relates to a net-zero future. Funding: CAD 2,000,000.
Deadline: 2023-10-20T20:00:00
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Imagining Canada’s Future Ideas Lab
Closed
Grant
The Imagining Canada’s Future (ICF) Ideas Lab is an exciting, two-year funding opportunity designed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to encourage innovative research partnerships and projects. Funding: CAD 250,000.
Deadline: 2023-05-25T20:00:00
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Reconciliation Network in Response to Call to Action 65
Closed
Grant
This joint initiative between the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and SSHRC supports establishment of a national research program with multiyear funding to advance collective understanding of reconciliation. Funding: CAD 7,000-1,000,000.
Deadline: 2023-05-15T20:00:00
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Special Response Fund for Trainees (Ukraine)
Closed
Grant
Recognizing how the crisis in Ukraine may affect the research landscape, this additional funding for grant holders will support trainees, defined as graduate students or postdoctoral researchers, through salaries and stipends. Funding: CAD 45,000.
Deadline: 2022-12-22T20:00:00
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Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative
Closed
Grant
The goal of the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative is to support community-based and community-led research partnerships with postsecondary institutions that are grounded in the lived experience of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups and that analyze the causes and persistence of systemic racism and discrimination. Funding: CAD 450,000.
Deadline: 2021-11-15T20:00:00
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Canadian Research Data Centre Network Directed Grant
Closed
Grant
This funding opportunity supports access to Statistics Canada microdata through a directed grant to the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN), a network of 32 secure computer laboratories on university campuses across Canada. Funding: CAD 17,400,000 per year.
Deadline: 2021-09-20T20:00:00
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Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Pending
Scholarship
These scholarships provide financial support to students who wish to gain research work experience in an academic setting to complement their studies. Currently, SSHRC exclusively designates these awards for Black students. Funding: CAD 6,000.
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