International CollaborationsCongress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1-7, 2019, Vancouver, British Columbia

Éric BastienDirector, Research Partnerships PortfolioResearch Grants and Partnerships Division

International Collaborations

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1. International Joint Initiatives

2. Domestic Joint Initiatives

3. SSHRC Funding Opportunities

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Trans-Atlantic Platform

• Research funders from South America, North America, and Europe

• Transatlantic research collaboration in the social sciences and humanities

• Types of activities:

ü joint calls for research

ü align policies and practices

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Trans-Atlantic Platform – Digging into Data

• Large-scale digital data analysis in social sciences and humanities

• Multidisciplinary collaborative projects in digital scholarship

Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data Christopher Cochrane, University of Toronto Scarborough

This project brings together political scientists, historians and computational linguists, from Canada, The Netherlands and the UK, to

enable large-scale analysis of the proceedings of three parliaments, from c.1800 to the present day. This data reflects any event of significance over the past 200 years, and will be enhanced during the course of the project

to shed light on developments across different nations, cultures and systems of political representation.

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Trans-Atlantic Platform – Social Innovation

• Research on or for social innovation

• Trans-Atlantic collaboration in this research call will facilitate:

ü addressing social challenges faced on both sides of the Atlantic

ü learning from the experiences of multi-sectoral collaboration for social innovation practiced on both sides of the Atlantic

ü the applying and adapting approaches from one locale to another

ü generalizing and/or scaling-up of local experiences

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Joint Programming Initiative - More Years, Better Lives

• Enhance coordination and collaboration between European and Canadian research programs related to demographic change

• Support multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral research through joint calls for proposals

Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes

Rachel Margolis, The University of Western Ontario was the Canadian

As societies age, the well-being of the elderly becomes an important societal challenge. CREW builds an interdisciplinary team of researchers from six institutions in five countries (Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium,

Canada), to examine the interrelationships between care, work, health and wellbeing.

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Horizon 2020

• SSHRC and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

• Support Canadian engagement with European research partners

• Themes:ü Addressing the challenge of migrant integration through ICT-enabled

solutionsü Understanding migration mobility patterns: elaborating mid and long-

term migration scenariosü Social and economic effects of migration in Europe and integration

policies ü International protection of refugees in a comparative perspective

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1. International Joint Initiatives

Open Research Area

• Started as an agreement between research funding agencies in four European countries in 2010.

• SSHRC joined the 6th Call of ORA in 2019 alongside Agence nationale de la recherche in France; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Germany; and the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science is an associate partner.

• ORA 6 will provide funding for integrated projects by researchers coming from at least three countries.

• Goals:

ü Funding curiosity-driven, high-quality research

ü Strengthen international cooperation

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2. Domestic Joint Initiatives

• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

ü integral part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts

ü invests in knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve the

lives of people in the developing world

• IDRC-SSHRC Joint Initiatives:

ü International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change

ü International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies

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2. Domestic Joint InitiativesInternational Research Initiative on Adaptation

to Climate Change • Address the knowledge gap in climate change through

rigorous research in Canada and across four continents• Anticipate, manage, and reduce climate risk vulnerability

through adaptation

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Adapting to Climate Change: Protecting Water Resources in West Africa and Canada

Taha Ouarda, Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Significant gaps remain in our knowledge about the real and potential consequences of climate risks based on a population’s level of vulnerability; the effectiveness of monitoring, warning, and emergency response systems; and relevant indicators for gauging the effectiveness of adaptation policies on health. Improving access to the

available knowledge on vulnerability to climate change remains a challenge in Tafilalet, Morocco, Niamey, Niger, as well as in the province of Québec, Canada.

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2. Domestic Joint InitiativesInternational Partnerships for Sustainable Societies

• Creates opportunities for researchers and partners in Canada and in low or middle-income country to develop a collaborative international research program

• Themes: Information and Networks; Inclusive Growth; Governance, Security, and Justice; Green Growth

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Hungry Cities PartnershipJonathan Crush, Wilfrid Laurier University

The Hungry Cities Partnership is an international network of cities and city-based partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization,

informality, inclusive growth and urban food systems in the Global South. The HCP conducts collaborative research, training and advocacy with the objective of providing

innovative solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities and policies and programs that promote food security in the cities.

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3. SSHRC Funding Opportunities

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Building the next generation of leaders and equipping them for research-intensive careers across the economy and society

INSIGHT

Fostering research-basedknowledge about people

CONNECTION

Supporting the flow and exchange of that knowledge within and beyond academe.

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3. SSHRC Funding Opportunities

Partnership Grants

Diversity: mediating difference in transcultural spaces

Laurence McFalls, Université de Montréal

To establish an innovative research training program in the contested

fields of diversity, multiculturalism, and transnationalism with the aim

of enhancing and further deepening the cooperation and mobility of

students and researchers between Canada and Germany.

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Thank you!