(table within online form)
INSTRUCTIONS
For each budget year, estimate the costs you are asking SSHRC to fund. All budget costs must conform to the rates and regulations of the applicant’s institution and take into account the Tri-Agency Financial Administration principles governing the appropriate use of funds. All costs must be justified in terms of the needs of the project, including costs for organizing and integrating team activities and for communicating results to audiences, stakeholders, and the public. The budget will be adjudicated according to the appropriateness of the requests, and to the justification of other planned resources (e.g., time, human, and financial), including cash and in-kind support already or to be secured from partner organizations.
Note: SSHRC provides the following guidelines to committee members regarding the adjudication of the budget sub-criteria of the overall Feasibility score:
- Committees may consider failing a project on the Feasibility criterion if they determine that 30% or more of the overall budget request is insufficiently justified and/or not appropriate to the proposed objectives or outcomes of the project.
- Committees will use the principle of minimum essential funding to guide their budget discussions.
- Committees may recommend budget reductions when they determine the request is inadequately justified and/or not appropriate as described above, and where they judge that savings could be achieved without jeopardizing the project objectives.
- An application will automatically be failed if the committee deems 50% or more of the overall budget is insufficiently justified and/or not appropriate to the proposed objectives or outcomes of the project.
Enter amounts rounded to the nearest dollar without any spaces or commas (e.g., 2000). For blank entries, leave in the “0” value.
Personnel Costs
For each of the categories below, enter the number of students and non-students you plan to hire, whether as salaried employees or as recipients of stipends.
Student and non-student salaries and benefits
For each applicable category, enter the number of students and non-students to be hired. Specify the total amount to be paid. When students are paid by wage, the amounts should follow the university’s collective agreement or policy.
Student stipends
You may request stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Stipends must be justified in terms of the research, research training and/or research-related objectives. The work performed by stipend recipients should be an integral part of the project. Stipend rates are set by the applicant’s institution.
Travel and subsistence costs
Enter, by budget year, the total amounts requested for travel abroad and within Canada for both the research team and student personnel. Travel and subsistence costs must be based on rates approved by the institution that will administer the funds.
Other Expenses
Professional or technical services
Consulting fees for professional and technical services are eligible expenditures only if the budget justification demonstrates that expert advice is needed.
Supplies
You may include other supply items (e.g., software, stationary, postage and telephone calls) only if they directly relate to the research and are not provided by the administering institution to their research personnel.
Non-disposable equipment – computer hardware
Purchase or rental of computers and associated hardware is allowable only if these are not accessible through the postsecondary institution.
Other non-disposable equipment
Purchase or rental or equipment (e.g., audio or video equipment) is allowable only if it is not accessible through the postsecondary institution.
Other Expenses
Specify other research and/or related expenses not already included.
Tools for research and related activities
For tools for research and related activities, select “Other expenses” and specify “Tools”. You must combine all requested expenses related to tools (i.e., for software, equipment, and professional and technical services) into this category. You must then elaborate on these items in the Budget Justification section. Consult SSHRC’s Guidelines for Support of Tools for Research and Related Activities for more information.
STRATEGIC ADVICE
Note that entering a number (#) in the personnel section of the table does NOT multiply the corresponding dollar ($) amount – you must list the TOTAL dollar amount manually.
Please contact Brianna Wells for a copy of an excel spreadsheet template for IG Budgets.