Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Open Research Area (ORA) 6 call is an international competition that supports collaborative research in the area of social sciences.

Proposals are required to involve researchers from any combination of three or more participating countries out of Canada, France, Germany and the UK. (Japan is not counted toward the minimum three countries.) Proposals may involve any discipline, thematic area, approach or subject area eligible for SSHRC funding.

Eligibility: The applicant must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution at the time of application. Applications may be submitted by a team of researchers consisting of one applicant and one or more co-applicants and/or collaborators. For more information on eligibility, please visit the agency website.

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*Kindly note that submission process will require ORS to register on the Je-S portal. Interested applicants are strongly recommended to contact ors@sfu.ca as soon as possible for assistance with the submission process.

Paperwork required: SFU signature sheet, copy of full application, SSHRC National Financial Form, SSHRC Terms and Conditions are due to ors@sfu.ca no later than 3 business days before agency deadline. ORS signs the SSHRC Terms and Conditions for Applying and emails it to SSHRC before the deadline.

Open Research Area Webinar

SSHRC will hold two webinars in English and one in French for potential applicants to this call on July 3, 2019.  The webinars will be open to participants from around the world and will provide information and guidance from the funders on the requirements of the call, as well as an opportunity for questions and answers. To allow for different time zones, the two identical English webinars will be held at 10:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (5:00 a.m. eastern) and 3:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (10:00 a.m. eastern). A French webinar will be held at 1:00 p.m. eastern. Each webinar will last about one hour.

For the English webinars, spaces will be limited. Please register by emailing oraqueries@esrc.ukri.org. When registering your interest, please indicate which webinar time you wish to join. For the French webinar, please indicate your interest by emailing paula.popovici@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

Registration for the English webinars will close on June 21, 2019. Registration for the French webinar will close on June 28, 2019.