Falling Walls Global Call for Science Breakthroughs – Women’s Impact Award 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 15, 2026

Applications for the Women’s Impact Award 2026 at the moment are open. The Women’s Impact Award recognises girls who mix excellent analysis with societal affect. It celebrates scientific excellence with goal—led by girls and actively contributing to a extra equitable future.

The award is a joint initiative by the Falling Walls Foundation and the Elsevier Foundation and types part of the Falling Walls Global Call for Science Breakthroughs.

Benefits

• Get worldwide visibility for your undertaking.
• Be a part of the Falling Walls community and work together with a variety of determination-makers, innovators and rising skills from everywhere in the world. Join an interdisciplinary neighborhood that’s dedicated to bringing down limitations to deal with widespread challenges.
• Get the OPPORTUNITY to take part within the Falling Walls Science Summit 2026, a 4-day convention with inspiring keynotes, discussions, thrilling pitches and much more on matters associated to science, its communities and the alternatives related to science and society.
• Take your likelihood to grow to be one of many Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year and current your breakthrough work to a worldwide viewers on 9 November 2026 on the stage on the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be at postdoctoral stage or above or maintain an equal stage {of professional} independence and duty. (Eligible examples: postdoctoral researchers, analysis fellows, senior researchers, principal investigators, group leaders, or professors). They welcome submissions from cis and trans girls, genderqueer, and non-binary people, embracing an inclusive definition of girls.
• Applicants should be main or considerably contributing to a analysis undertaking that mixes scientific excellence with actual-world affect. The undertaking should meet at the very least one of the next goals:
  • Advancing Gender Equality via Research and/or
  • Supporting Underserved Communities
• The analysis undertaking should be actively operating on the time of submission. Eligible initiatives embody these:
  • Collecting or analysing information,
  • Piloting or testing interventions,
  • Implementing options in actual-world settings.
• Projects which are solely on the concept stage, in proposal improvement, or looking for funding usually are not eligible.
• The language of the application should be English.

Who can Nominate

• Universities and analysis establishments
• Companies with analysis laboratories
• Scientific foundations
• Partner organisations of Falling Walls
• Leading scientists of their area

Application

Click here to apply or nominate someone

For extra info, go to Women’s Impact Award.