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• Mar 6, 2014, 12:00:00 AM

For Women in Science Grants 2014

Female scientists can apply for a Dutch ‘For Women in Science’ grant to give their career an extra boost as of 7 March 2014. The Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO and L’Oréal the Netherlands introduced the fellowship programme in 2012 in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).

Programme
The prestigious international ‘For Women in Science’ programme is a collaboration between UNESCO and L’Oréal under the motto ‘The world needs science, science needs women’. The programme offers grants and awards to exceptional women scientists in the field of life sciences. Since 1998 the program has recognized more than 2,000 women around the globe. Two of them, Elizabeth Blackburn and Ada Yonath, have since won a Nobel Prize. Each year two Dutch grants of maximum €25,000 will be awarded to female scientists active in the field of life sciences in the broad sense. Grants can be awarded in the period up to ten years after completing one’s PhD (comparable to Vidi level). They are intended for a residency at the NIAS campus where the researchers can further develop their scientific career as part of an international academic community.

More information is available here.