Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPPs)

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: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Programs and Sub-programs:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities

  • 1.1.1 Canada Research Chairs
  • 1.1.4 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • 1.1.5 SSHRC Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships

1.2 Insight: new knowledge in the social sciences and humanities

  • 1.2.1 Individual, team and partnership research grants
  • 1.2.2 Institutional research capacity grants

1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge

  • 1.3.1 Individual, team and partnership knowledge mobilization grants
  • 1.3.2 Research-based knowledge culture

Description: This transfer payment program consists of grants and scholarships awarded for research, talent development and research dissemination activities in the social sciences and humanities.

Expected Results:

  • SSHRC-funded scholarship and fellowship recipients are employed in positions of leadership, research, management, etc., in Canada and internationally.
  • SSHRC funds excellent social sciences and humanities researchers.
  • Partners and researchers benefit from establishing linkages and mobilizing knowledge within and across their respective sectors.
Details of Transfer Payment Program ($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2013-14		 Planned Spending
2014-15		 Planned Spending
2015-16		 Planned Spending
2016-17
Total Grants* 245.5 244.5 245.0 243.8
Total Transfer Payments 245.5 244.5 245.0 243.8
Note: Planned spending for future years do not reflect future budget commitments.

* These figures do not include operating expenses.

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

Decision Following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

  • SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Evaluation: 2014-15
  • Tri-agency Evaluation of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships: 2014-15
  • Institutional Research Capacity Grants Evaluation: 2015-16
  • Tri-Agency Evaluation of the Canada Research Chairs: 2015-16
  • Individual, Team and Partnership Research Grants Evaluation: 2015-16
  • Research-Based Knowledge Culture Evaluation: 2016-17

General Targeted Recipient Group: Persons (students, researchers), non-profit organizations (charities, foundations, non-governmental organizations, universities and research institutions)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums) 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: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program and Sub-program:
 1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities

  • 1.1.2 Canada Graduate Scholarships

Description: This transfer payment program supports doctoral students and master’s students in the social sciences and humanities.

Expected Results:

  • Increased supply of highly qualified personnel to the academic, public, not–for-profit, and private sectors

 

Details of Transfer Payment Program ($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2013-14		 Planned Spending
2014-15		 Planned Spending
2015-16		 Planned Spending
2016-17
Total Grants* 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0
Total Transfer Payments 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0

* These figures do not include operating expenses.

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2008-09

Decision Following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2014-15

General Targeted Recipient Group: Persons (students)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums) 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: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program and Sub-program:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities

  • 1.1.3 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

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:

  • Compete worldwide for premier doctoral students, to build world-class research capacity in Canada

 

Details of Transfer Payment Program ($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2013-14		 Planned Spending
2014-15		 Planned Spending
2015-16		 Planned Spending
2016-17
Total Grants* 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3
Total Transfer Payments 8.3 8.3 8.3 8.3

* These figures do not include operating expenses.

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: 2014-15

General Targeted Recipient Group: Persons (students)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums) 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: Canada has the institutional capacity to enable research and research-related activities in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health

Program:
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, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and SSHRC.

Expected Results:

  • Universities and colleges improve their overall ability to conduct research and recruit and retain world-class researchers

 

Details of Transfer Payment Program ($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2013-14		 Planned Spending
2014-15		 Planned Spending
2015-16		 Planned Spending
2016-17
Total Grants* 331.6 332.4 332.4 332.4
Total Transfer Payments 331.6 332.4 332.4 332.4

* These figures do not include operating expenses.

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: 2013-14

Decision Following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation: 2018-19

General Targeted Recipient Group: Non-profit organizations (universities and research institutions, colleges)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums) 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: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program and Sub-program:
1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge

  • 1.3.3 Networks of Centres of Excellence

Description: This federal class grant 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 working 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:

  • Strong linkages and partnerships established between university, government and industry, and other users (non-governmental organizations)
  • The research knowledge and technology produced by the networks and centres is transferred and used, with economic and societal benefits to Canada

 

Details of Transfer Payment Program ($ millions)
  Forecast Spending
2013-14		 Planned Spending
2014-15		 Planned Spending
2015-16		 Planned Spending
2016-17
Total Grants* 8.9 8.9 8.9 8.9
Total Transfer Payments 8.9 8.9 8.9 8.9

* These figures do not include operating expenses.

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

Decision Following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

  • Joint Evaluation of the Networks of Centres of Excellence and the Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence: 2014-15

General Targeted Recipient Group: Non-profit organizations (universities and research institutions)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums) 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.