OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards 2026 for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: August 31, 2025

Applications are open for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards 2026 for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. OWSD invites functions from early profession ladies scientists from the Global South working in the space of sustainable, reasonably priced, and dependable power.

The OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists reward and encourage ladies working and dwelling in creating nations who’re in the early phases of their scientific careers, having usually overcome nice challenges to realize analysis excellence. Awardees will need to have made a demonstrable impression on the analysis surroundings, each at a regional and worldwide stage, and will need to have obtained their PhD in STEM in the final ten years.

Prizes

• Cash prize of USD $5,000.
• All-expenses-paid journey to attend a related worldwide convention.

The 5 awards will likely be distributed as follows: one for every of the 4 areas of the creating world (Africa, Arab area, Asia & the Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean), plus an extra ¨floating” award for an impressive candidate from any of those areas.

Eligibility

• Applicants will need to have lived and labored for a minimum of 5 of the final 15 years in considered one of the following science- and know-how-lagging nations (STLCs): 
  • Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (Kingdom of), 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, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • Arab area: Djibouti, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen
  • Asia & the Pacific: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao People’s Dem Rep., Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
  • Latin America & the Caribbean: Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay
• Applications from candidates in the Social sciences, Humanities, Arts, or different are NOT eligible.
• The eligible STEM fields are as follows:
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
  • Biological Systems and Organisms
  • Chemical Sciences
  • Computing and Information Technology
  • Engineering Sciences
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences (together with Neurosciences)
  • Physics
  • Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
• Any mixture of those fields (i.e. interdisciplinarity) is appropriate.

Application

Applications have to be made on-line, in English, and should embrace: 

• Official documentation proving 5 years’ residency in an eligible STLC.
  • The following paperwork may be submitted as proof of residence so long as the title of the applicant (as written in the on-line kind) seems clearly: assertion from the native police workplace or municipality, inhabitants registry workplace, rental settlement, utilities payments, employment contract. This listing shouldn’t be exhaustive and different paperwork may be thought-about. Please write to [email protected] in case you are unsure about the eligibility of your paperwork.
• Evidence on how your analysis contributes to advancing SDG7 (Affordable and clear power).
• Motivational assertion of not more than 2500 characters describing why try to be chosen for this award, the glorious high quality of your analysis, biggest achievements of your scientific profession, impression of your work regionally/regionally/internationally, and the place related, any persona/skilled challenges you may have confronted and overcome given your context (for ease, they advocate that you just put together this beforehand and replica-paste into the textual content field).
• PhD certificates
• Curriculum vitae
• Full listing of publications
• At least 2 reference letters (reference letters have to be ready on official letterhead and must be written and signed by senior scientists aware of your analysis).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards.