[PDADC-L] SSHRC Partnership and Partnership Development Grants information session on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, 2-4 pm

Colleagues:

PLEASE ENSURE THAT THIS INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH FACULTY MEMBERS AND RESEARCH FACILITATORS IN YOUR ACADEMIC UNIT

I am pleased to invite you to a SSHRC Partnership and Partnership Development Grants information session on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, 2-4 pm in the Governing Council Chambers, Simcoe Hall. RSVP to agatha.yim@utoronto.ca

SSHRC's Brent Herbert-Copley, Vice President, Grants and Fellowships, and Gail Zboch, Senior Program Officer, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives, have kindly agreed to come to the U of T to present information and answer questions. They will offer a brief overview of SSHRC's new program architecture, then focus on:

Partnership Development Grants - Deadline: 25 November 2010 to apply for awards of $75,000 to $200,000, to:
• develop research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including knowledge mobilization and the meaningful involvement of students and new scholars, by fostering new research partnership activities involving existing and/or potential partners; or
• design and test new partnership approaches for research and/or related activities that may result in best practices or models that either can be adapted by others or have the potential to be scaled up at a regional, national or international level.
and

Partnership Grants (LOI) - Deadline: 31 January 2011 for Letters of Intent applying for up to $20,000 to develop a full proposal for up to $2.5M, to:
• support new or existing formal partnerships that 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

We would like to have broad, strong U of T participation in both these programs. This information session is an excellent opportunity to deepen your understanding of these new programs, their objectives and adjudication criteria, and to obtain clear answers to specific questions as you develop or consider developing a submission.

For those of you who are planning to apply, or are already in the midst of preparing your proposal, please let us know by writing to: Drew Gyorke, Director, Agency and Foundation Funding, Research Services, at drew.gyorke@utoronto.ca The Research Services Office looks forward to working closely with you and your divisional leaders and research facilitators to produce compelling and, hopefully, winning applications.

If this is relevant to you please reserve the time and RSVP as noted above for this important meeting.

Best wishes,
Paul


Professor R. Paul Young Ph.D., FRSC
Vice-President, Research
University of Toronto
Simcoe Hall, Room 109
27 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
Telephone: 416-978-4984
Email: paul.young@utoronto.ca
Web: www.research.utoronto.ca