The OWSD – Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World

Country: Seattle, USA

Opening date: June, every year

Closing date: August 29, 2019

Result notification: November , 2019

Number of awards: annually five awards (one for each of each each region of the developing world + one outstanding candidates from any of these regions).

Theme of the award:

• Civil engineering
• Electrical engineering, electronic engineering
• Telecommunications/information engineering / Software engineering
• Computer science
• Mechanical engineering
• Chemical engineering
• Materials engineering
• Medical engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Environmental biotechnology
• Industrial biotechnology
• Nano technology

About: OWSD-Elsevier Foundation awards women for the past many years, many talented women have been benefited by this award and raised women contribution in scientific researches.

If you are a qualified women from a developing country who have made significant contribution in the field of Engineering and Technology, you can apply to this Award.

You must have worked on researches and provide demonstrable regional and international influence, for achieving this award.

Note: Each year five awards are given to five deserving women on a three year cycle of scientific disciplines. Women, who got PhD not prior than 10 years are able to get this scholarship.

 Profit:

• An amount up to USD 5,000 is for winner
• travel costs are paid for each annual conference of American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS)
• Nominees will have the chance to attend workshops and sessions at the AAAS
• Opportunity to create global network.

Am I eligible?

• Be female scientist
• obtained a PhD within last 10 years
• Candidate must belong to eligible developing countries in Asia, Arabic regions, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean:

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem  Rep Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, 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, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,  

Djibouti, Palestine (West Bank & Gaza Strip), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Lao People’s Dem Rep, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay

Requirements:

• A CV
• List of publication along with two reference letter
• One supporting statement from any experts without referees

Application process:

To apply you need to fill an online application form before the deadline.

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Note: Success applicants need to apply for visa as soon as possible after they received the result notification for travelling to USA in February 2020.

Selection criteria: 

• Scientific Merit for example: Qualification of Publications.
• The impact in regional and international level such as participation on workshops, collaborations with scientists from other countries.
• Capacity building

For more information visit the link: OWSD

Related: Apply to UNESCO OWSD