The organizers of the 2022 L’oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards have announced nominations for the world’s most prestigious event. Created 23 years ago, the awards program identifies and supports outstanding women in science across the globe.
The selection criteria of the candidates are the following:
- The candidate’s outstanding contribution to the general advancement of science,
- The impact of the candidate’s research on the current state of the relevant scientific field (number, quality and impact of publications, conference presentations, patents),
- The recognition of the candidate by peers within her discipline through publications,
- The recognition of the candidate’s commitments to education, teaching activities, mentoring, and/or to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals more broadly.
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Scientists around the world are invited to nominate candidates for the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards. To be considered eligible for an Award, it is necessary to be nominated in writing by an eminent scientist. Self-nominations are not eligible, nor nominations from immediate family members. Teams are not eligible for nomination.
Benefits
Each of the five Laureates will receive an Award of €100,000.
Eligibilities
The candidate must:
- Be recognized for her scientific excellence by the international scientific community,
- Be actively involved in scientific research,
- Work in any field of the Life and Environmental Sciences mentioned in appendix 1,
[For your information, there is no age constraint regarding the candidate.]
Eligible Regions: Africa & the Arab States, Asia, and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North AmericaApplication Process
- Nominations can only be submitted electronically through the Apply Now link.
- Having a new application platform, previous nominators will be asked to reset their password the first time they will log in for data security reasons (in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation). If new to the system, the nominator will need to create a user ID and password.
- An application is considered complete only if it includes all the following documents:
- A brief explanation of why the nominator considers the candidate eligible for the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards (200-400 words).
- A suggested quotation for the general public if the candidate is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 40 words) describing the key technical or professional accomplishment for which the candidate deserves the Award. Note that the Jury will approve the final official Laureates’ statements.
- A detailed Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 to 3 pages). The nominator must include in the CV (or in the publications list) any reference to the candidate’s scientific social networks and/or websites (such as ResearchGate, ORCID, personal website).
- A list of all the publications of the nominee.
- A list of the most significant patents starting with the most recent one.
- A list of the 10 most significant publications in order of importance with: a brief summary explaining their significance and why they are so relevant according to the Nominator (less than 150 words by publication); the number of citations for each paper excluding auto-citations, and the impact factor of each journal, if relevant. Please, add a link to access all publications mentioned in the list. If for some of the publications the related links are not available, please upload them in pdf, if possible, or at least provide fully detailed article references including all the authors.
- Three to five letters of recommendation from eminent scientists outside the candidate’s home institution.
- Nominations that are incomplete or received after May 31st, 2021, as well as applications that do not meet the requirements mentioned above, will not be taken into consideration.
- Nominations are valid for two Life and Environmental Sciences Awards cycles. Unsuccessful nominations submitted for the 2022 edition will be held on file and nominators will be invited to update their candidates’ information when the next call for nominations for the International Awards in Life and Environmental sciences goes out (April 2023 for the 2024 edition).
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Application Deadline: May 31, 2021
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