About The Schulich Foundation

Seymour Schulich is a Jewish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He built his fortune in the natural minerals industry and finance and founded The Schulich Foundation twenty-five years ago.

Most of the Schulich Foundation’s activities focus on higher education, emphasizing the STEM professions. Like the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion, seven more faculties at seven universities in Canada bear Schulich’s name.

The Schulich Leaders Scholarship is Israel’s highest and most prestigious scholarship program for a bachelor’s degree in STEM subjects. The scholarship includes a tuition exemption and a generous subsistence scholarship throughout the degree years. It is awarded to about 55 students annually in five higher education institutions in Israel: the Technion, the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and Ben-Gurion University.

In 2020, in collaboration with the Technion, the Foundation decided to change the scholarship program at the Technion and make it the institution’s official entrepreneurship program – The Schulich Leaders Program for Entrepreneurship.

In recent years, the foundation activities in Israel have also included building 1,000 smart classrooms in collaboration with the Ministry of Negev and Galilee Development and the ORT network and establishing a fulfilling project for cyber studies for youth in the social and geographical periphery.