Grant for Women Researchers in Climate Action and the Environment from OWSD

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is offering a grant to female researchers with a Ph.D. in a scientific field related to climate action and the environment.

• Cash prize of USD 5,000.
• An all-expenses-paid trip to attend the Awards Ceremony to be held at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in February 2022. The trip will be confirmed in the coming months according to how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves; it may be that the awards ceremony is celebrated online. Awardees will not be required to travel if they judge the situation to be unsafe.
• The 5 awards will be distributed as follows: one for each of the four regions of the developing world (Africa, Arab region, Asia & the Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean), plus an additional ¨floating” award for an outstanding candidate from any of these regions.

• The applicant must be a woman who has received her Ph.D. in a scientific discipline within the previous ten years and whose current scientific research is related to the area of climate action and the environment.
• Given that from 2022-2026, the awards will respond to the call for action set forth by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), applicants must demonstrate how their research contributes to the advance of knowledge in the area of climate action and the environment and to achieving the SDG13 (Climate Action), SDG14 (Life Below Water) and/or SDG15 (Life on Land).
• The applicant must have lived and worked for at least 5 of the last 15 years in one of these countries: Syria, Palestine, Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen
• The 5 years of residence in the eligible country do not have to be consecutive.
• Applicants can be citizens of any country, provided that they fulfill the above residence requirement.
• Preference will be given to those candidates not currently (or within the last three years) in receipt of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) or OWSD awards, fellowships, or grants.

Eligible Scientific Fields:

• Agricultural Sciences.
• Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences.
• Biological Systems and Organisms.
• Chemical Sciences.
• Computing and Information Technology.
• Engineering Sciences.
• Mathematical Sciences.
• Medical and Health Sciences (including Neurosciences).
• Physics.
• Structural, Cell, and Molecular Biology.

About the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD):

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental body based at the offices of TWAS, in Trieste, Italy. OWSD provides research training, career development, and networking opportunities for women scientists throughout the developing world at different stages in their careers.

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