Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship Program 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: November 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship Program 2026-2027. The program’s lengthy-time period aim is to speed up gender equality in STEM by producing circumstances that lead to extra ladies pursuing scientific careers via assuaging a few of the limitations they encounter when enrolling in STEM disciplines.

The program is dedicated to gender parity in science in the pursuits of sustainable improvement and acknowledges that full entry to and participation in a STEM curriculum is important for the empowerment of girls and ladies. By accelerating gender equality in STEM, the expertise and capacities of those ladies might be developed for the good thing about their native communities, areas and nations.

The program awards fellowships for superior analysis in STEM at main analysis institutes overseas. Faculty for the Future Fellows are anticipated to return to their home nations upon completion of their research to contribute to the financial, social and technological development of their home areas by strengthening the STEM instructing and analysis colleges of their home establishments in addition to via their management in science primarily based entrepreneurship. They are additionally anticipated to contribute to the public sector the place their newly acquired technical and scientific expertise might help present proof-primarily based help for STEM coverage making, together with matters of gender illustration.

Grants

• Faculty for the Future grants are primarily based on precise prices for eligible bills as much as a most of USD $50,000 per yr for a PhD and most of USD $40,000 per yr for a Post-doc and could also be renewed via to completion of research. Renewal grants are topic to efficiency, suggestions from supervisors and robust proof of re-integration plans in the home nation.

Eligibility

You are eligible should you:

• are a feminine and are a citizen of a growing nation or rising economic system the place ladies are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. You usually are not eligible to apply should you maintain twin citizenship of which one is citizenship of a developed nation. (N.B. If you have got been awarded a Faculty for the Future grant and after the award you get hold of citizenship of a developed nation, the grant might be discontinued as of the date of such extra citizenship);
• are getting ready for a PhD diploma or publish-doctoral analysis in a STEM self-discipline. The Faculty for the Future program doesn’t fund Master stage research;
• are enrolled, admitted or have utilized to a number college/analysis institute overseas (purposes are now not accepted the place a candidate has not but utilized to a college). If you’re making use of for a sandwich course the remaining diploma have to be awarded by the Host University overseas or collectively (i.e., however not solely from the home nation college);
• maintain a wonderful educational document;
• are keen to return to your home nation or area upon completion of your research to contribute to its socio-financial improvement;
• have a confirmed document of instructing expertise in your home nation and may show your dedication to going again home to:
  • a tutorial or analysis place in a STEM college; and/or to utilizing your data to develop into a STEM entrepreneur to assist resolve regional challenges in your area people/area; and/or to demonstrating management by contributing to the public sector utilizing your scientific expertise to assist present proof-primarily based help for STEM coverage making, together with matters of gender illustration;
• can show management expertise, lively neighborhood outreach and have a monitor document in encouraging women and girls into STEM. If you don’t meet the above standards, don’t apply for a grant, as your application is not going to be retained in the choice course of.

Selection Criteria

A profitable application could have gone via 4 choice rounds, with the reviewers paying specific consideration to the following standards:

• Academic efficiency;
• Quality of references;
• Quality of host nation college;
• Level of dedication to return to home nation;
• Commitment to instructing, STEM entrepreneurship or coverage making;
• Relevance of analysis to home nation;
• Commitment to inspiring women and girls into STEM.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Faculty for the Future Fellowship.