Inspiring Women in Science Awards 2025 ($50,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: April 9, 2025

Are you dedicated to advancing gender equality in STEM? Are you devoted to encouraging women and younger ladies to have interaction with STEM topics and pursue careers in science? Apply now for the Inspiring Women in Science Awards 2025.

The Inspiring Women in Science awards have a good time and assist the achievements of girls in science, and all those that work to encourage women and younger ladies to have interaction with STEM topics and keep in STEM careers all over the world. They invite purposes in two award classes — Science Outreach and Scientific Achievement.

Awards

The winners of the Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science will obtain:

• A prize of US$50,000
• An invitation to the award ceremony in London or New York, with lodging and journey bills paid by the organiser.
• Coverage on nature.com 
• An invitation to current their work or initiative to the scientists at The Estée Lauder Companies 
• Mentoring via The Estée Lauder Companies

The runners up will obtain:

• A prize of US$5,000
• An invitation to the award ceremony in London or New York, with lodging and journey bills paid by the organiser

The shortlisted candidates will: 

• Be profiled on the Nature Awards web site 
• Have entry to an unique teaching and networking group

Eligibility

Science Outreach Category

• They are on the lookout for initiatives which have both:
  • inspired women or younger ladies to have interaction with and study pure sciences, know-how, engineering, arithmetic, and drugs (STEM) or
  • elevated retention of girls in STEM careers, with a concentrate on offering instruments to assist ladies via their profession development in a STEM self-discipline.
• They settle for purposes from organizations, departments, people (of any gender), or undertaking groups. Nominate one spokesperson who shall be their level of contact and symbolize the successful entry on the award ceremony.
• Entries may have proven distinctive imaginative and prescient, perception, and/or creativeness, and demonstrated that they encourage, assist, or promote the pursuits of women and/or ladies in STEM. They additionally welcome purposes that embrace interdisciplinary parts.

Scientific Achievement Category

• They are on the lookout for candidates who’ve made an distinctive, demonstrable contribution to scientific discovery, and should have confronted important private or skilled challenges. The applicant ought to exhibit the potential for growing and main an unbiased analysis group. They are additionally eager that candidates have made efforts to encourage the subsequent era of scientists via outreach or assist the retention of girls in science careers.
• Applicants should self-establish as ladies. They use an inclusive definition of ‘woman’ and ‘women’. They welcome trans ladies, and genderqueer and non-binary individuals.
• Applicants should maintain a PhD diploma, a medical diploma (MD), or one other kind of doctorate by dissertation obtained in the final 10 years.
• The beforehand talked about 10 years shall be prolonged by any maternity go away(s) or different related leaves of absence. Thus, the ten years don’t must be steady. Details of those absences will must be specified throughout the application course of.
• Applicants should maintain a non-tenured place on the time of application. They settle for purposes from these working in STEM. They additionally welcome purposes that embrace an interdisciplinary element.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications shall be assessed by a panel based mostly on the next standards:

Science Outreach class

• Description of your initiative.
• Success and influence of your initiative.
• Future plans.

Scientific Achievement class

• Scientific achievements.
• Publications.
• Activities past analysis.

Application

Entries should be full and submitted by 11:59 pm UTC 00:00 on April 9, 2025 to be eligible.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Inspiring Women in Science Awards.