UNODA Young Women for Biosecurity Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 21, 2025

Applications are open for the UNODA Young Women for Biosecurity Fellowship 2025. Efforts to safeguard a greater future for all won’t be potential with out gender equality. Yet, girls proceed to face systemic obstacles and biases in pursuing scientific careers. In innovative fields resembling synthetic intelligence, just one in 5 professionals are girls. Women additionally proceed to be underrepresented in discussions associated to biosafety and biosecurity, regardless of important course of in earlier years.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva will maintain a particular iteration of the Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship Programme for 10 competitively chosen younger feminine scientists from the Global South.

Participants will be a part of a collection of on-line interactive webinars previous to a area go to in the course of the Seventh assembly of the BWC Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention in Geneva. The Fellowship goals to help younger girls from the Global South energetic within the biosecurity area, offering an OPPORTUNITY to study, community and share views on subjects associated to the BWC.

Fellowship

The Fellowship runs over a 3-month interval and requires a minimal time dedication to accommodate fellows’ work or educational schedules. Activities embody:  

• A collection of on-line Biosecurity Workshops all through October and November, with not less than three substantive classes,
• Dedicated alternatives for mentorship and networking,
• A 5-day area go to in Geneva from 8 to 12 December 2025 in the course of the Seventh Meeting of the BWC Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, potential fellows should:

• Identify as feminine,
• Be below 35 years outdated on the time of making use of,  
• Be residents of a BWC State Party listed as least developed nation, low- or decrease/higher center-earnings nation (Check in case your nation is within the Development Assistance Committee List of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• At a minimal, awarded a grasp’s diploma within the life sciences or a associated self-discipline from a acknowledged college or establishment.
• Have not less than three years of working expertise,
• Currently work in a associated area, resembling laboratories, analysis into biosecurity or disarmament, life sciences, rising applied sciences and so on.  
• Proficiency in English, with proof of mastery.  

Regional steadiness shall be thought-about within the collection of the cohort.

Expectations

• Attendance and energetic participation in all on-line classes and within the area go to [the fellows are responsible for obtaining the relevant authorizations from their employer or universities, as well as any required visa documents for travel to Switzerland].
• Make time in your schedule to adequately put together for all classes and discussions – the course shall be intensive, and prior preparation shall be key to the fellows’ energetic participation.

Application

Applicants might want to present a reference letter, copy of their passport, and affirmation of their availability to take part within the programme in its entirety as part of their submission.

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For extra data, go to UNODA Young Women for Biosecurity Fellowship.