The Truman Institute offers scholarships for research grants to researchers, who have doctorates and/or research groups of up to four researchers from institutions of higher education, including the group coordinator, who must be from Hebrew University.

Past research grants have been granted to groups for projects such as:

• Peace negotiations in the Middle East
• Jewish and Islamic religious communities in Latin America 
• Inter-Diciplinary research of Africa  
• Collective memory in comparative perspective