OWSD is pleased to invite applications for the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards. These awards reward and encourage women working and living in eligible developing countries who are in the early stages of their scientific careers, having often overcome great challenges to achieve research excellence.
Awardees must have made a demonstrable impact on the research environment, both at a regional and international level, and must have received their PhD in the last ten years. Each award winner receives a cash prize of USD 5,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, held every year in U.S.A. during February.
Previous winners say the awards have had a powerful effect, enhancing the visibility of their past work and creating new opportunities for the future. The 2020 Awards will be given in the fields of engineering and technology. Evidence of innovation will be considered favorably.
Specific eligible fields include: 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 Nanotechnology.
Applicants must have lived and worked in one of the eligible science and technology-lagging countries for at least 5 of the last 15 years. All information is also available from the OWSD website in Spanish.
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