Program directory · Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Research Partnerships
- Program code
- BNT03 (SSHRC)
- Core responsibility
- Funding social sciences and humanities research and training
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This program provides funding to enable social sciences and humanities research collaboration with academic, public, private and/or not-for-profit sector partners. The program helps stimulate leading-edge, internationally competitive research, fosters strong and productive research collaborations with multisectoral partners, and accelerates the use of research results by organizations that can harness them for economic, social and cultural development in Canada.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Partnerships | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $736M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Indicators added: Percentage of partners from non-academic sectors participating in funded partnership projects | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Indicators dropped: Total number of unique non-academic partners participating in SSHRC-funded partnership projects | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 340 | 2019 | 724 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 360 | 2020 | 792 | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 500 | 2021 | 1,035 | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 650 | 2022 | 823 | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 700 | 2023 | 704 | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 750 | 2024 | 617 Annual variability is expected with this measure as the result depends on the number of awards and fluctuations in the number of non-academic partners involved in each project. | Not met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 750 | 2025 | 758 | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 65% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $75.4M | $94.9M |
| 2019-20 | $85.4M | $93M |
| 2020-21 | $88.6M | $112M |
| 2021-22 | $105M | $109M |
| 2022-23 | $109M | $105M |
| 2023-24 | $110M | $110M |
| 2024-25 | $107M | $113M |
| 2025-26 | $122M | — |
| 2026-27 | $120M | — |
| 2027-28 | $123M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $132M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 27 | 28 |
| 2019-20 | 31 | 32 |
| 2020-21 | 38 | 39 |
| 2021-22 | 38 | 51 |
| 2022-23 | 49 | 51 |
| 2023-24 | 57 | 57 |
| 2024-25 | 55 | 61 |
| 2025-26 | 64 | — |
| 2026-27 | 60 | — |
| 2027-28 | 60* | — |
| 2028-29 | 57* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $75,383,430 | $73,253,476 | $73,264,890 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $85,445,556 | $82,958,092 | $89,298,406 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $88,616,585 | $90,059,370 | $83,694,960 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $104,834,392 | $91,841,841 | $79,442,395 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $108,790,959 | $102,360,836 | $85,984,052 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $110,140,685 | $92,577,961 | $93,277,244 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $107,079,450 | $100,274,716 | $97,895,242 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $121,851,705 | $118,198,531 | $123,376,358 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $119,785,303 | $123,294,946 | $132,176,540 | ||||||||
| Actual | $94,941,297 | $92,979,866 | $111,840,052 | $109,499,310 | $104,628,527 | $109,710,239 | $112,510,789 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
