Sponsor

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Description

The presidents of the three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), recently announced their gradual transition to a new, narrative-style tri-agency CV [1] for their competitions.

SSHRC recognizes that using multiple types of CVs, including the Canadian Common CV (CCV), does not represent a viable long-term solution to meeting the needs of applicants, research administrators and funders. All SSHRC funding opportunities will gradually be moved to the new CV over the next few years as they are each onboarded to the tri-agency grants management solution [2] (TGMS), a project to modernize the funding agencies’ systems to better support applicants, administrators and reviewers.

SSHRC is pleased to share that it will begin the process by gradually transitioning funding opportunities that use the Convergence Portal to the new CV format, starting in December 2024. The first funding opportunity to use the new, tri-agency CV will be the 2025 Impact Awards competition.

Once all funding opportunities have transitioned to the tri-agency CV, there will be only one CV template in use across all opportunities. This will reduce the burden on both applicants and reviewers.

As SSHRC begins to transition its funding opportunities to the new tri-agency CV, SSHRC will clearly note for each funding opportunity which CV template to use. The agency will provide those using the new CV with clear instructions and learning opportunities to understand how to navigate it.