Caribbean - 2024 Call for application

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Created in 2023, the L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents Caribbean for Women in Science program is committed to supporting the involvement of young women in scientific research and scientific careers. This program identifies and rewards brilliant young women researchers in life and environmental sciences, material sciences, mathematics, computer and information sciences, engineering sciences and technology.

The program seeks to award young doctoral, post-doctoral students, and early career scientists - in the Caribbean region - for the excellence of their academic level, the originality of their scientific project, but also their desire to pass on their passion to the younger generation. However, since the creation of this program, it is clear that inequalities and the glass ceiling persist in the world of academic research: only 18% of senior academic positions in science are held by women and, worldwide, only 4% of women have been awarded Nobel Prizes in science*.

In order to further support this generation of women researchers at a pivotal moment in their scientific careers, the L'Oréal Foundation is offering them training in leadership and communication to enable them to reach positions of responsibility more easily and more quickly and thus break the glass ceiling.

The 2024 Award Ceremony will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 25th in the presence of an audience from all over the Caribbean region: representatives of public authorities, UNESCO, scientists, women influencers, academics, intellectuals, opinion leaders and organizations promoting gender equality.

The world needs Science, and Science needs Women.

*UNESCO Report on Science Towards 2030, 2015