This is one of the most generous and prestigious Fellowship programs in Israel, supporting the next generation of academic, research and innovation leaders.
CIFAR has been successfully taking on difficult challenges for more than three decades by undertaking global research programs connecting many of the world’s best minds – across borders and between disciplines – to shape new perspectives and spark groundbreaking ideas. CIFAR offers research fellows the rarest of commodities: freedom to take the kinds of intellectual risks that are essential for creating truly transformative knowledge.
The Azrieli Foundation supports CIFAR through two outstanding programs which expand the boundaries of understanding in ways that might otherwise not be possible: Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind and Consciousness and CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars.
Azrieli Global Scholars Program
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program provides funding and support to help early career researchers build their academic network and develop essential skills to help them evolve into the next generation of research leaders. Researchers within five years of their first academic appointment from anywhere in the world are eligible to apply.
Founded in 1988, the Loran Scholars Foundation was created in response to the gap in the Canadian system of merit-based financial assistance to university students. As the first national organization in the country to grant undergraduate awards based on a mix of academic achievement, extracurricular activity and leadership potential, the Loran-Canadian Merit Scholars program is driving the very future of academia forward.
Each scholar is provided an annual stipend, a matching tuition waiver from partner universities, mentorship, a summer program, an orientation expedition and access to an extended network of scholars, alumni and supporters. Azrieli-Loran scholars are from Quebec or are Francophone.
This fellowship provides early-career physicians and scientists from Israel with the opportunity to seek new approaches to medical diagnosis and treatments through placements at Canadian academic centres in facilities affiliated with the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
The Azrieli Foundation supports those who will lead change with their creative thinking, cross-pollination of ideas and cutting-edge contributions to solve the world’s most pressing issues.