Deadline for applications: October 8, 2023. | Elsevier Foundation Awards 2024 for Women Scientists in Developing Nations in Their Early Careers
The OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in Developing World are now accepting applications.
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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.
- Applications must show how their research advances knowledge in the fields of water, sanitation, and hygiene and helps to realize SDG6 (Clean water and sanitation), as the awards from 2022 to 2026 will respond to the call for action outlined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are eligible for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards. Applications from women in the humanities, social sciences, arts, or other fields are not acceptable.
STEM fields that qualify:
- 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.
Prize
- $5,000 in cash as the reward. (Grant)
- 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.
Application Methodology:
Online submissions must be in English and contain the following information:
- Proof of five years of residency in an STLC that qualifies.
- As long as the applicant’s name appears clearly on the following documents, they can be submitted as proof of residency: Rent agreement, utility bills, employment contract, declaration from the municipality or local police department. Other documents may be taken into consideration as this list is not all-inclusive.
- If you have any questions regarding the eligibility of your documents, kindly write to owsd@owsd.net.
- Evidence demonstrating how your research advances SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation).
- Describe your path to become an accomplished scientist in a 350-word bio (for simplicity, we suggest writing this ahead and pasting it into the text box)
- A PhD is required.
- Personal statement
- list of all publications
- A minimum of two reference letters, each of which should be attested to by two senior scientists familiar with your study and prepared on company letterhead.
- Applications for the 2024 prizes must be submitted by 8 October 2023.
For Additional Information
Visit the Elsevier Foundation Awards 2024 Official Website.
