Amelia Earhart Fellowship 2026 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Amelia Earhart Fellowship 2026. The Fellowship is awarded yearly to up to 30 ladies pursuing Ph.D./doctoral levels in aerospace-utilized sciences or aerospace-utilized engineering. It could also be used at any college or faculty providing accredited put up-graduate programs and levels in these fields.

Globally, ladies make up round 25 % of the workforce within the aerospace trade. In an effort to perform its mission that ladies have entry to all assets and are represented in determination-making positions on an equal foundation with males, Zonta International presents the Amelia Earhart Fellowship. Since this system’s inception in 1938, Zonta has awarded 1,794 Amelia Earhart Fellowships, totaling greater than US$12.2 million, to 1,365 ladies from 80 nations.

Funding

• Up to US$10,000 is awarded to chosen fellows.

Eligibility

• Women of any nationality pursuing a Ph.D./doctoral diploma who reveal a superior tutorial file conducting analysis utilized to aerospace engineering or area sciences are eligible.
• It is crucial that college students be registered in a full-time Ph.D./doctoral program and have accomplished no less than one yr of that program or have obtained a grasp’s diploma in an aerospace-utilized subject on the time the application is submitted.
• Applicants should not graduate from their Ph.D. or doctoral program earlier than April 2026. Note that put up-doctoral analysis packages should not eligible for the Fellowship.
• Club members and people with direct membership with Zonta International and staff of Zonta International and Zonta Foundation for Women, and their relations (ancestors, descendants, adoptees, siblings, nieces or cousins, and people of their partner or co-habiting associate), should not eligible to apply for the Fellowship.
• Note that earlier Amelia Earhart Fellows should not eligible to apply to renew the Fellowship for a second yr.

Application

The 2026 Amelia Earhart Fellowship application have to be submitted in full by 15 November 2025 to be thought-about.

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For extra data, go to Amelia Earhart Fellowship.