SSHRC Destination Horizon Grants May Competition
Research Admin Offices:
- ROADS
Funding Type:
GrantOpportunity 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:
- DeGroote School of Business
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Health Sciences
Sponsors:
- Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Deadlines:
Internal Deadline:
April 17, 2026Sponsor Deadline:
April 17, 2026Description:
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.
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.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for support researchers must be:
1) affiliated with eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions, and
2) 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.
Application/Nomination Process:
For each competition, an institution may submit a maximum of three applications. Consequently, researchers who are interested in applying to the May 2026 competition are asked to complete and submit to their Vice/Associate Dean Research (cc. horizon.europe@mcmaster.ca) an Internal Expression of Interest (EOI) form (also attached) by April 17, 2026.
Following review of the EOIs from researchers in their Faculty, each V/ADR will be asked to recommend by April 20, 2026, 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.
Eligible applications submitted to SSHRC will have their application number entered into a random number generator. Awards will be granted, in order, from the lowest random number to the highest random number until the financial resources allocated to the competition are exhausted.
Resources:
Contact:
For more information on how to apply, contact the Horizon Program Lead, ROADS.