Save-the-date: Monday 8 March, 10:00 to 11:00 (Brussels time, CET) The event will be livestreamed via the EUScienceInnov YouTube account, and the panel will take questions from the audience via Slido. The opportunities created by novel technologies and disruptive innovations promise to deliver the fair, green and digital recovery Europe needs. But we cannot get ahead if we leave half the population behind. To mark International Women’s Day, the...

The overall goal of the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) COFUND Programme, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions COFUND project funded by the European Commission, is to establish a support scheme for excellent postdoctoral female researchers to foster their scientific development, to nurture their expertise and to make a profound impact on their future careers. The Programme aims to address statistics published in the European Commission's "She...

Marking 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen praised the extraordinary achievements of women scientists across Europe, reminding our full potential was reached only if we used ‘all our talent and diversity'. She acknowledged that not every woman and girl got a chance to realise their aspirations. “Less than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women”,...

The OWSD Early Career Fellowship is a prestigious award of up to USD 50,000 offered to women who have completed their PhDs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and are employed at an academic or scientific research institute in one of the listed Science and Technology Lagging Countries (STLCs). which include Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. The OWSD Early Career fellows will be supported to establish an environment at...

PURPOSE The programme is administered with funds generously provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and is offered in partnership with host institutes throughout the developing world. The general purpose of the fellowship programme is to contribute to the emergence of a new generation of women leaders in science and technology, and to promote their effective participation in the scientific and technological...

Over the last 20 years, the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have supported 3,022 talented young female scientists through research fellowships. These L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowships are awarded annually at national and regional ceremonies in 117 countries. National and regional fellowships are awarded to 275 young women scientists each year. Out of these 275, the International Rising Talents programme targets the most promising 15...

Three Thai women scientists were awarded this year’s L’Oréal “For Women in Science Fellowships” for their groundbreaking research. This year, the fellowship in the Life Science category was granted to Dr Sudjit Luanpitpong from the Siriraj Centre of Excellence for Stem Cell Research, research division, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, for her study titled “Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species in Lymphoma Stem Cells and...

The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talents are presented to fifteen promising young women, from each world region (Africa and the Arab States, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America), in order to support and encourage them to pursue their scientific careers. They were selected among the best National and Regional fellows. The L’Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talent program is dedicated to both honoring...