Deadline: 1 September 2015
The Elsevier Foundation in collaboration with TWAS and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is accepting nominations for the award to encourage women working and living in developing countries in the early stages of their scientific careers.
The winner will receive a cash prize of USD5,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. A total of five Awards are given annually to five young women scientists, one from each of five regions in the developing world: Latin America and the Caribbean; East and South-East Asia and the Pacific; Arab region; Central and South Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa.
Theme – Biological Sciences: agriculture, biology and medicine
Eligibility Information
The nominee must be a female scientist; have received her PhD within the previous 10 years; and have lived and worked in one of the eligible developing countries during the three years immediately prior to the nomination.
Eligible Countries
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Belize, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname.
- East and South-East Asia and the Pacific: Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea DPR, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam.
- Arab region: Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen.
- Central and South Asia: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Dem. Rep., Congo Rep., Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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