Our Mission

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation promotes outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences, and fosters a fruitful dialogue between scholars and policymakers in the arts community, business, government, the professions, and the voluntary sector. The Foundation

encourages emerging talent through the awarding of Trudeau Scholarships to the most talented doctoral students in Canada and abroad;
appoints distinguished Trudeau Fellows and Mentors for their knowledge and wisdom to build an intellectual community supporting the work of the Scholars;
creates and maintains an international network of Trudeau Fellows, Scholars, and Mentors.

VISION

What is Right? What is Just? What is for the Public Good?

These difficult, age-old questions are at the heart of democratic life and of the essence in fulfilling the mandate of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. By providing Fellowships to innovative and distinguished Canadian researchers, Scholarships to gifted doctoral students, and Mentorships to outstanding professionals in the humanities and social sciences, the Foundation is investing in two key areas of strategic importance to Canada’s growth and well being: bright and caring people committed to providing inspired leadership; and the world of creativity and ideas shaping positive change.

Why the humanities and social sciences? The best and most sustainable solutions to move Canada forward as a nation will come from uniting scientific and technological innovation with knowledge from various areas of humanistic and social studies: bioethics, geography, history, the law, literature, politics, sociology, to name but a few.

The Foundation is creating concrete connections between the private sector, the public sector, and academia that do not grow on their own. Investing in a dialogue on crucial societal issues today will not only help Canada nurture a prosperous, technologically and scientifically advanced society, it will also help it become a creative and successful society in all of its dimensions. One that offers its citizens not only wealth, but quality of life, hope, and optimism to face what lies ahead.

Our Themes »

What I dare to believe is that men and women everywhere will come to understand that no individual, no government, no nation is capable of living in isolation, or of pursuing policies inconsistent with the interests—both present and future—of others. That self-respect is not self-perpetuating but depends for its existence on access to social justice. That each of us must do all in our power to extend to all persons an equal measure of human dignity—to ensure through our efforts that hope and faith in the future are not reserved for a minority of the world’s population, but are available to all.

— Pierre Elliott Trudeau (London, UK, 1975)

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