Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is an independent and non-partisan charity established in 2001 as a living memorial to the former prime minister by his family, friends, and colleagues. In 2002, with the support of the House of Commons, the Government of Canada endowed the Foundation with the Advanced Research in the Humanities and Human Sciences Fund. The Foundation also benefits from private donations. By granting doctoral scholarships, awarding fellowships, appointing mentors, and holding public events, the Foundation encourages critical reflection and action in four areas important to Canadians: human rights and dignity, responsible citizenship, Canada’s role in the world, and people and their natural environment.

Any

December. Each university will have its own deadlines to select the students whose files will be forwarded to the Foundation before the final deadline.

Up to $60,000 per scholar for a maximum of three years

Canada or elsewhere

Be a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant applying to a doctoral program in the social sciences and humanities or registered full-time in the first or second year of such a program at a Canadian university or a foreign university, or

Be a foreign national [with a preference for candidates from the developing world] applying to a doctoral program in the social sciences and humanities or registered full-time in the first or second year of such a program at a Canadian university.
Present a research project linked to one of the Foundation’s four themes.
Be nominated by a university record of academic achievements at the level of the highest standards of the world’s most prestigious doctoral scholarship programs.
Possess exceptional skills that will enable the scholar to engage in lively exchange with other researchers.