SSHRC Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination

November 2011 Competition

Overview
Value	No maximum limit
Duration	1 year
Application deadline	November 28, 2011
Results announced	March 2012
Apply	Application form not available

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Context

Knowledge mobilization is a core priority for SSHRC, one aimed at facilitating and enabling the movement of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities to and from various sectors of society in order to inform Canadian and international debate, decisions and actions.
SSHRC actively supports connecting, disseminating, exchanging and co-creating knowledge to meet the needs of society. The aim is to ensure that people who stand to benefit from research results (e.g., policy-makers, business leaders, community leaders, educators, and members of the media, as well as academics in various fields) have the knowledge they need, when they need it, in useful forms.

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Objectives

Public Outreach Grants are designed to mobilize and/or leverage existing and ongoing research in the social sciences and humanities for a range of audiences beyond academia. Through this funding opportunity, SSHRC encourages researchers to find effective ways to disseminate, transfer, exchange, synthesize and broker research results to wider audiences.
Funding is available for knowledge mobilization activities in the open category, or any of SSHRC's priority areas:

• Open: Applicants may submit knowledge mobilization projects drawing from any eligible SSHRC discipline.
• Canadian Environmental Issues
• Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity
• Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity
• Aboriginal Research
• Digital Economy

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Description

The Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination funding opportunity supports activities that help share the results of academic research with non-academic audiences.
Dissemination activities include, but are not limited to:

1. adapting texts or presentations for different audiences (including translations into French, English or an aboriginal language);
2. policy briefs;
3. knowledge syntheses;
4. articles in newspapers or weekly or monthly magazines, whether specialized or general interest (publications in scholarly journals are not eligible);
5. interactive technologies, databases and audio-visual products;
6. media events (such as interviews, or television or radio presentations);
7. press conferences;
8. public debates or testimonies;
9. software or NetWare;
10. educational aids, instruments or equipment;
11. artistic exhibits, performances or festivals;
12. submissions to public commissions, roundtables or workshops; and
13. virtual networking and interactions.

If a proposed activity is not listed above, applicants should consult the program officer to ensure that they are eligible for this funding opportunity.
Note: All activities should be set in the context of a cohesive and fully articulated mobilization plan or strategy. Applicants are encouraged to describe how the proposed knowledge mobilization activities are expected to increase the capacity of selected audiences to understand and use research results.
Target audiences include, but are not limited to:

• policy-makers;
• organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors;
• communities of interest (geographic or virtual);
• other areas of Canada beyond the scope of the original research;
• students at all levels (i.e., primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities);
• the general public; and
• international audiences.

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Value and Duration

Applicants must situate their proposals within one of three funding levels: under $50,000, $50,000 to $100,000, and over $100,000. There is no maximum value for the last category; however, applicants should ensure their plans can be implemented in one year. The applications will be adjudicated according to merit and the adjudication criteria outlined below. The level of funding requested should be justified in detail and appropriate to the activities undertaken by the proposed project.
Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination will be tenable for one year only, with the possibility of one one-year extension. Grant holders must apply to the Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination program officer for any extensions. This is a one-time call for proposals.

For further information, please see http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/public_outreach-sensibilisation_public/dissemination-diffusion-eng.aspx.  You are also welcome to contact me at sara.mueller@usask.ca

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