8 October 2023 is the deadline. | The OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists reward (2024; $5 000 award)
The OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards 2024 for Early-career Women Scientists are now accepting applications. These awards recognize and support female scientists in the early stages of their careers who are employed and residing in qualified developing nations and who have frequently surmounted significant obstacles to do excellent research.
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The awards will be given out between 2022 and 2026 in response to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The water, sanitation, and hygiene (SDG6) category is where the 2024 Awards will be presented.
Awards
- $5,000 in cash as the reward.
- trip with all costs covered to a pertinent international conference.
- Each of the four developing global areas—Africa, the Arab region, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean—will get one of the five awards, and one additional “floating” award will be given to an exceptional applicant from any of these regions.
Eligibility
- The candidate must be a woman who recently earned a PhD in a scientific field and whose present scientific work is focused on issues of water, sanitation, and hygiene.
- Additionally, the candidate must have spent at least five of the previous fifteen years living and working in one of the 66 STLCs (scientifically and technologically trailing countries) listed here:
- Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Djibouti, and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) are all countries in the Arab region.
- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu are all countries in Asia and the Pacific.
- Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Paraguay are all in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Please be aware:
It is not necessary for the five years of residence in the nation to be consecutive.
Any nationality may apply as long as they meet the aforementioned residency requirement.
Appropriate STEM fields:
- Agronomical Sciences
- Earth, space, and astronomy sciences
- Systems and Organisms in Biology
- Science of Chemicals
- Information technology and computing
- sciences in engineering
- Sciences of mathematics
- Neurosciences are a part of the medical and health sciences.
- structural physics, cell biology, and molecular biology
- Interdisciplinarity, or the blending of these disciplines, is acceptable.
Application
Applications must be made online, in English, and must include:
- Official documentation proving 5 years’ residency in an eligible STLC .
- The following documents can be submitted as proof of residence as long as the name of the applicant (as written in the online form) appears clearly: statement from the local police office or municipality, population registry office, rental agreement, utilities bills, employment contract. This list is not exhaustive and alternative documents can be considered. Write to owsd@owsd.net if you are not sure about the eligibility of your documents.
- Evidence on how your research contributes to advancing the SDG6 (Clean water and sanitation).
- Short biography of approximately 350 words describing your journey to become an outstanding scientist (for ease, they recommend that you prepare this beforehand and copy-paste into the text box)
- PhD certificate
- Curriculum vitae
- Full list of publications
- At least 2 reference letters (reference letters must be prepared on official letterhead and should be written and signed by senior scientists familiar with your research)
For more information, visit OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards.
