{"id":2950,"date":"2026-02-13T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:56:37","slug":"for-women-in-science-award-apply-by-21-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2026\/02\/13\/for-women-in-science-award-apply-by-21-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For Women in Science&#8221; Award (apply by 21 February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"931\" src=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-1024x931.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1704\" style=\"width:324px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-1024x931.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-768x699.png 768w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-1536x1397.png 1536w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-220x200.png 220w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom-1320x1201.png 1320w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/02\/logo_custom.png 1583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwomeninscience.com\/challenge\/show\/101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For Women in Science Germany<\/a><\/strong> promotes 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&#8217;Or\u00e9al Deutschland and the German Humboldt Network. In an innovative tripartite partnership, these partners are committed to promoting excellent female scientists in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information on the award and the application procedure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwomeninscience.com\/challenge\/show\/101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> and and the regulations here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwomeninscience.com\/statics\/filemanager\/Germany\/Regulations_ForWomenInScience_Germany_2025_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regulations_ForWomenInScience_Germany_2025<\/a>. <br><strong>Submit your application by 21 February 2026. <\/strong><br>The selection process will be completed by 30 June 2026 with the award ceremony being held in September 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Main eligibility criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Female early-career scientists working in STEM disciplines (interpreted in a wide understanding, e.g. agricultural sciences, informatics, geosciences, medicine are all included)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postdocs, habilitation candidates or junior professors in the <strong>four+two years following the doctorate <\/strong>(or in the final year of the doctorate, if a scholarship or contract for the postdoc phase has already been granted); for each child two additional years can be added (see further information in the regulations)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Employment contract\/fellowship equivalent to at least 50% of a full-time position (remaining duration of the contract\/scholarship at least 12 months from the submission of the application)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work at a German university, university of applied sciences, or non-university public research institution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications of researchers with an inter- and transdisciplinary research profile are strongly encouraged<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications of researchers with children are strongly encouraged<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selection criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Excellence of the applicant\u2019s current and past research (not only in terms of quantitative criteria for excellence, cp. DORA declaration)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Originality and feasibility of the project and its methodological structure&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contribution to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmbwf.gv.at\/Themen\/HS-Uni\/Hochschulgovernance\/Leitthemen\/Dritte-Mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Third Mission of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwomeninscience.com\/challenge\/show\/101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For Women in Science Germany<\/a><\/strong> promotes 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&#8217;Or\u00e9al Deutschland and the German Humboldt Network. In an innovative tripartite partnership, these partners are committed to promoting excellent female scientists in Germany. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2026\/02\/13\/for-women-in-science-award-apply-by-21-february-2026\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,267],"tags":[277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}