Applications are now open for the 2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships for study in Canada

Ednah Carrick September 13, 2024

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Closing Date: 25 November 2024

Applications are now open for the 2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships for study in Canada

Overview

More than just a Doctoral scholarship, the three-year program offered by the Foundation aims to train engaged leaders with the skills required to turn their ideas into actions and contribute concretely to addressing the challenges of their communities, Canada, and the world. They will benefit from exchanges, networking, and events with the Foundation’s Fellows and Mentors, all of whom are leaders in their respective fields.

The Foundation is looking for students who are interested in pushing the academic questions of their time. Students who are involved in their communities. And students looking to connect with a community, senior academics, and eminent practitioners. The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship brings together remarkable individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds with a shared interest in making Canada and the world a better place into a life-changing community. It’s about more than money.

What Makes a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar?

Academic excellence and intellectual curiosity

Do you have a record of strong academic performance attested to by your transcripts and other forms of educational achievement (e.g., publications, conference presentations)? Are you committed to excellence in research and knowledge dissemination? Are you an original thinker who can engage in constructive critical thinking about society?

Commitment and openness to engaging with a plurality of perspectives

Are you willing to engage with a plurality of people, cultures, institutions, forms of knowledge, ideologies, and perspectives? Can you collaborate respectfully across differences, including with those who hold different opinions and ideologies, to pursue your goals?

Leadership and engagement

Are you engaged in activities and organizations within and beyond academia? Do you aspire to take on more significant leadership roles in your community or organization(s)? Do you have the potential to take your research beyond academia to benefit the wider public?

Participation in Foundation community events

Are you committed to fully participating in all Foundation activities, whether conferences, masterclasses, or seminars, and to engaging respectfully and actively with all participants?

Core values

The Foundation expect its community members to be interested in improving their capacities in both official languages. The Foundation also encourage its members to learn from their peers, Fellows, and Mentors and act authentically and with integrity. The Foundation is committed to selecting diverse scholars based on perspectives and disciplines.

Eligibility Criteria

1. You must be registered or accepted into a full-time doctoral program in year one or two.

2. Your field of study is broadly related to the humanities and social sciences or human sciences and is directly relevant to the future of Canada. (Read more details)

3. Your doctoral work must relate to at least one of the Foundation’s four general themes:

i. Human Rights and Dignity,

ii. Responsible Citizenship,

iii. Canada and the World,

iv. People and their Natural Environment.

4. You must be a Canadian citizen studying at a Canadian or foreign institution. Or you are a permanent resident of Canada or a foreign national enrolled in a doctoral program at a Canadian institution.