Research Admin Offices:

• ROADS
• HRS

Opportunity Type:

• Grant

Value:

Destination Horizon Grants are valued at up to $15,000 for one year. Matching cash contributions equivalent to 100% of the amount requested from SSHRC must come from the host institution. The VPR is willing to provide up to 50% of the required matching funds for applications selected for submission to the program.

Disciplines:

• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Social Sciences

Sponsors:

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Deadlines:

Additional Dates:

• ROADS - NOI Required - April 16, 2025
• ROADS - Draft Application - May 15, 2025
• Sponsor - Final Application - May 22, 2025
• FHS Internal Due Date - April 16, 2025

Description:

These grants are intended to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals. The May 2025 competition is the second of three Destination Horizon Grant competitions in 2025. There will be a third competition in September.

Destination Horizon Grants are not intended to support implementation of Horizon Europe projects. Instead, the grants support activities between researchers that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges;
• scholarly exchanges;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges between researchers affiliated with Canadian postsecondary institutions and researchers, students and non-academic partners from the EU and other associated countries.

Additional Program Information:

For each competition, an institution may submit a maximum of three applications. Consequently, researchers who are interested in applying to the May 2025 competition will be asked to complete and submit to their Vice/Associate Dean Research (cc. horizon.europe@mcmaster.ca) an internal Expression of Interest (EOI) form by April 16, 2025.

Following review of the EOIs from researchers in their Faculty, each V/ADR will be asked to recommend to the VPR by April 23, 2025, no more than one proposal per faculty to be considered for further development and submission to SSHRC in May. Should more than three proposals be recommended in total, the VPR will decide which three will be selected for development and submission.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for support researchers must be affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions, and working in disciplines, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas eligible for SSHRC funding. Postdoctoral researchers and students are not eligible for applicant or co-applicant status for a Destination Horizon Grant.

Resources:

Additional Details.

Contact:

For more information and how to apply, contact Horizon Europe Program Lead.

For FHS applications, please contact Julie Croskill for more information, and to obtain a copy of the EOI form.