Élisabeth-Bruyère School Of

Social Innovation

Are you someone who is engaged and likes action?
Do you want to do your part to change the world?
Are you looking for a university experience – the only one of its kind in Canada – that is geared to transforming society?

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By registering in the Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation, you automatically become a member of the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop.

At the Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation, you’ll learn to turn ideas into impact. We pair the human sciences with hands-on practice so you can tackle the problems markets and governments leave behind — inside Canada’s only university school built for this work.

Why study here

  • Build real solutions for housing, poverty, exclusion and discrimination.
  • Master tools and methods that make organizations more democratic and more just.
  • Examine collective action through a human-sciences and management lens.
  • Become an Atelier member — automatic enrolment in the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop.

Programs of study

  • Certificate in Social Innovation
  • Honours B.A. in Social Innovation
  • Graduate Diploma in Social Organizations Development
  • M.A. in Social Innovation
  • Ph.D. in Social Innovation
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What you’ll gain

Skills you’ll build
  • Understand a social problem that neither the state nor the market can address on its own, suggest a concrete solution and test the proposed solution on the ground.
  • Launch the project, track it and measure results.
  • Design, implement and conclude your own social innovation project.
Where graduates work
  • Self-employed by a personal project
  • Director of a not-for-profit organization
  • Project manager
  • Community organizer
Sample courses
  • Management, Administration and Social Innovation
  • Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Movements
  • Ecology and Environmental Justice
  • Mobilization, Framing and Communication

At SPU, I was able to put my knowledge to good use and also practice what I was learning. In my social innovation program, my relationship with my professors didn’t stop in the classroom, but thanks to the innovation workshop (Atelier), I was able to get their support in carrying out my projects.

Vanessa Murengera

Student, Honours B.A. in Social Innovation

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