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Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants and Scholarships (voted)
Start date: 1978
End date: No end date
Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2011-12
Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training
Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities
1.2 Insight: new knowledge in the social sciences and humanities
1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge
Description: This transfer payment program (TPP) consists of grants and scholarships awarded for research, research training, and research dissemination activities in the social sciences and humanities.
Expected results:
($ millions) | ||||
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Forecast Spending 2011-12 |
Planned Spending 2012-13 |
Planned Spending 2013-14 |
Planned Spending 2014-15 |
|
Total Grants | 242.6 | 240.5 | 240.9 | 240.9 |
Total Contributions | — | — | — | — |
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments | — | — | — | — |
Total Transfer Payments | 242.6 | 240.5 | 240.9 | 240.9 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:
Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation
Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:
General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students, researchers, post-secondary institutions, not-for-profit organizations)
Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted)
Start date: 2003
End date: No end date
Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09
Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training
Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities
Description: This transfer payment program supports doctoral students and master’s students in the social sciences and humanities.
Expected results:
($ millions) | ||||
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Forecast Spending 2011-12 |
Planned Spending 2012-13 |
Planned Spending 2013-14 |
Planned Spending 2014-15 |
|
Total Grants | 72.5 | 69.0 | 69.0 | 69.0 |
Total Contributions | — | — | — | — |
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments | — | — | — | — |
Total Transfer Payments | 72.5 | 69.0 | 69.0 | 69.0 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:
Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation
Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:
General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students)
Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted)
Start date: 2008
End date: No end date
Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09
Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training
Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities
Description: SSHRC’s portion of this tri-agency class grant transfer payment program provides financial support to Canadian and international students who have achieved outstanding success in their studies and will pursue a doctoral program at a Canadian university in an area of the social sciences and humanities.
Expected results:
($ millions) | ||||
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Forecast Spending 2011-12 |
Planned Spending 2012-13 |
Planned Spending 2013-14 |
Planned Spending 2014-15 |
|
Total Grants | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
Total Contributions | — | — | — | — |
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments | — | — | — | — |
Total Transfer Payments | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A
Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A
Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:
General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students)
Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Indirect Costs of Research (voted)
Start date: 2003
End date: No end date
Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2009-10
Strategic Outcome:
2.0: Canada has the institutional capacity to enable research and research-related activities in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health
Program Activity:
2.1 Indirect Costs of Research
Description: This transfer payment program supports a portion of the indirect costs associated with the conduct of academic research in institutions that receive research grant funds from any of the three federal research granting agencies. Grants are awarded to eligible institutions using a progressive funding formula based on the average revenues from research grants received from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and SSHRC.
Expected results:
($ millions) | ||||
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Forecast Spending 2011-12 |
Planned Spending 2012-13 |
Planned Spending 2013-14 |
Planned Spending 2014-15 |
|
Total Grants | 331.7 | 332.4 | 332.4 | 332.4 |
Total Contributions | — | — | — | — |
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments | — | — | — | — |
Total Transfer Payments | 331.7 | 332.4 | 332.4 | 332.4 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:
Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation
Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:
General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (post-secondary institutions)
Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Networks of Centres of Excellence (voted)
Start date: 1997
End date: No end date
Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09
Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training
Program Activity:
1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge
Description: This federal class grants transfer payment program is administered jointly by the three federal research granting agencies in partnership with Industry Canada. It supports research in complex areas of critical importance to Canadian universities and hospitals in partnership with the private and public sectors. The networks funded through this program are multidisciplinary and multisectoral partnerships that stimulate leading-edge, internationally competitive research in areas critical to Canadian economic and social development.
Expected results:
($ millions) | ||||
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Forecast Spending 2011-12 |
Planned Spending 2012-13 |
Planned Spending 2013-14 |
Planned Spending 2014-15 |
|
Total Grants | 11.8 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 11.3 |
Total Contributions | — | — | — | — |
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments | — | — | — | — |
Total Transfer Payments | 11.8 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 11.3 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:
Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation
Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:
General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (post-secondary institutions)
Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of each competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.
Name of TPP | Main Objective | End Date | Type of TP, G or C |
Forecast Spending 2012-13 |
Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation | General Targeted Recipient Group |
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College and Community Innovation | Provide funding to colleges to strengthen their applied research capacity, and to carry out applied research and technology transfer activities in one area where the college has recognized expertise and that meets local or regional needs. | N/A | G | 0.3 | N/A | Other (post-secondary institutions) |