Deadline: March 10, 2025
Applications are open for the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talents – Germany 2025. For Women in Science is the successful global cooperation of UNESCO and L’Oréal. Together, these two partners have promoted women in science since 1998 – strengthening the excellence of research, fostering gender equality and highlighting the visibility of women in research.
For Women in Science Germany promotes four female early-career scientists working in Germany each year – with an award worth 25,000 Euros. In Germany, the partners are the German Commission for UNESCO, L’Oréal Deutschland and the German Humboldt Network. In an innovative tripartite partnership, these partners are committed to promoting excellent female scientists in German science.
Award
- An award of €25,000 is presented to a female scientist.
Eligibility
- Female early-career scientists working in STEM disciplines.
- “Early-career” is understood as post-docs, junior professors or other academic positions without a tenure in the four+two years following their first doctorate.
- Eligible candidates’ livelihoods must already be secured through an employment contract/scholarship equivalent to at least 50% of a full-time position (and at least receive the minimum wage in Germany).
- The remaining duration of the employment contract/scholarship must be at least 12 months from the submission of the application.
- Female scientists in the final year of their doctorate are also eligible if an employment contract or scholarship commitment for the postdoc phase has already been granted.
- Employment contract/scholarship must be with a German university, university of applied sciences or non-university research institution (e.g. Max-Planck, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz), and the research work must be done in Germany (excluding field trips).
- Employment contracts/scholarships must cover work in research (excluding teaching) for at least 50% of full-time employment on annual average.
- Female scientists working in the laboratories of for-profit companies are not eligible to apply.
- STEM disciplines are broadly understood, also including agricultural sciences, geosciences, informatics, veterinary medicine, for example (the entire “main categories 1 to 4” of the discipline categorization of the OECD Frascati Manual).
- Both experimentally and theoretically working female scientists are invited to apply. The application of female scientists with an inter- and transdisciplinary research profile is strongly encouraged, i.e. when a STEM subject is combined with research in the humanities or social sciences.
- The nationality of the applicants is not relevant. If the residency permit of non-EU citizens is not already obviously implied by the work contract, a valid residence permit in Germany for at least 12 months from the submission of the application needs to be presented in addition.
- Applicants must not have received funding from another program component of For Women in Science (e.g. from another country) in the past.
Application
For more information, visit L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science.
