Research Admin Offices:

• ROADS

Opportunity Type:

• Request for Proposal

Value:

Value: Maximum funding per proposal for SSHRC is $200,000 CAD.

Duration of Projects: Each project should have a duration ranging between 24 and 36 months.

Disciplines:

• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Humanities
• Social Sciences

Sponsors:

• Trans-Atlantic Platform

Deadlines:

Additional Dates:

• Internal - NOI - September 1, 2023
• Sponsor - Submission Form to T-AP - September 15, 2023
• Internal - Draft Application - October 16, 2023
• Internal - Final Application - October 30, 2023
• Sponsor - Final Application - November 6, 2023

Description:

The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for Social Sciences and Humanities launches its fourth joint research call for proposals.  (T-AP), an unprecedented collaboration between humanities and social science research funders from South America, North America and Europe, is a collaboration between humanities and social science research funders. They have partnered to increase transatlantic research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities. This includes strengthening the supports for research cooperation and adopting policies to meet the needs of 21st century research.

The world is facing exceptional social, economic, technological, environmental, and geopolitical challenges, including migration, climate change emergencies, energy crises, war, conflict, political extremism, erosion of democratic institutions, protest, violence, corruption and growing public distrust of governance and expertise. These affect not only the institutions of democratic government but also the wider structures and processes that make our societies work and hold together.

The T-AP call on Democracy, Governance and Trust (DGT) seeks to understand specifically how democracy, governance and trust are integral to the tackling of both short-term crises and long-term challenges and are themselves a focus of the discontent and disruption facing many societies. The DGT call aims to deepen and widen our knowledge and understanding of opportunities, challenges, and crises, relevant to democracy, governance and trust.

Objectives: T-AP invites interdisciplinary (understood here as the integration of information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, methodologies, concepts, or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge) and innovative research proposals that promise advances in one or several of the following ways:

1. Improve and innovate our conceptualization and theorization of democracy, governance and trust.
2. Address topics aimed at collective responses to global challenges for democracy, governance and trust.
3.  Empirically define and describe the opportunities, challenges and crises relevant to democracy, governance and trust from a historical, contemporary, or prospective perspective.
4. Offer diverse methodological, disciplinary, and cross-national perspectives on these topics.
5. Study or test interventions (i.e., improving outcomes and making a difference) aimed at enhancing democratic processes, improving governance, and rebuilding trust in formal and informal political systems, economic structures, cultural associations, education and public institutions.
6. Advance knowledge through co-developing work programs with communities, educators, and key stakeholders in civil society, education and government.
7. Examine the role of digital media, tools, and technologies in eroding or strengthening democracy, governance and trust and the roles of education, cultural institutions and the law in shaping, facilitating and restraining this role of digital media.

Themes: These objectives are organized along nine cross-cutting themes of democracy, governance and trust. The detailed description of the call scope (including the nine research themes) is available here and  applicants must read this document thoroughly before applying.    

Additional Program Information:

August 23, 2023: Offered by SSHRC, this webinar will discuss some of the Canadian-specific components and requirements for this call.

French

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm Link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust

English 

Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm Link: Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities: Democracy, Governance and Trust 

Eligibility:

Applicants must apply as a transnational research project partnership and partner with a number of national research teams based in the participating T-AP countries (there are 9 countries total participating in this call) listed HERE under Funding Organizations.

Each project must:

• Comprise at least three eligible Co-Principal Investigators from at least three different T-AP participating countries from both sides of the Atlantic.
• Nominate one of the Co-Principal Investigators as the project’s Lead Principal Investigator (Lead PI). All co-PIs share responsibility for directing the project and co-ordinating proposed research activities in addition to participating in the execution of the research project. Co-applicants and collaborators contribute to executing the research project.
• The Lead PI must submit the Notice of Intent to Apply (NOI) and the joint research proposal on behalf of the consortium.

Applications must be in accordance with all relevant eligibility requirements. The funding organizations’ specific Addenda are available on the T-AP DGT website. All research teams are strongly advised to contact their relevant funding organizations at least six weeks before the application deadline to enquire about the eligibility of the national teams involved. Note that the formal eligibility of the proposals will be determined only after the submission deadline (on the basis of all formal eligibility requirements).  Researchers can only participate in one proposal as co-PI; thus, they can only act in one proposal as Lead PI. Applicants must also adhere to the funding organizations’ specific limits as described in their respective addenda.

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Additional Details

Contact:

For more information and to apply, please contact Amanda Graveline, Senior Advisor.