Deadline: 15 February 2024
The FIP Foundation, has partnered with the ECPG and the Regional Forums to award six scholarships to assist young pharmacists or pharmaceutical scientists to attend the FIP World Congress and participate in the Leadership Development Workshop.
Objectives
- To assist young pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists or pharmacy educators from low- or middle-income countries to attend an FIP World Congress.
- To provide an opportunity for the recipient to further develop his/her leadership skills and knowledge and to apply these skills in future professional organization leadership roles,
- To support the recipient in applying leadership skills to improve pharmaceutical practice, pharmaceutical sciences and/or pharmaceutical education in his/her home country and globally.
What does the Early Career Leadership Development scholarship include?
- FIP Congress registration
- Hotel accommodation (up to 500 EUR in 2024)
- Financial Compensation for travel will be based on the recipient’s region for the most economic travel relative to the location of the Congress
- One-year Individual Membership of FIP
- A meeting with the leaders of the FIP Foundation, FIP ECPG, Regional Forum ExCo, and FIP
- A mentor appointed from the Early Career Pharmaceutical Group (ECPG) and a mentor appointed from the region to assist with project planning and implementation
What is expected from scholarship winners?
- To attend the entire duration of the FIP congress
- To attend the Leadership Development Workshop (LDW) held by ECPG at the start of the FIP Congress and the Early Career Social Night hosted by ECPG during the FIP Congress.
- Attendees will be asked to give a five-minute presentation of their project concept as part of the LDW requirement.
- All successful applicants are then expected to take feedback from the LDW and refine their project plan.
- Upon return to their home country, applicants are expected to implement their project and provide updates to their mentor on the progress of the project.
- To be present at the Opening Ceremony of the FIP congress
- To attend specified meetings and programmes during the congress, as defined by the Board of the Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be pharmacists, pharmacy educators, or pharmaceutical scientists, under the age of 35 years (by 31 January of the year of the congress to which the application refers);
- Applicants must live and work or study in a country or territory with an income level classified as low, lower-middle or upper middle by the World Bank in the latest available classification. It is not mandatory that applicants are nationals of, or live in, countries or territories where FIP has member organisations.
- Regardless of the nationality of the applicant, the application will be evaluated according to the WHO region of his/her country or territory of residence and work/study.
- Applicants who have previously received financial support or a scholarship from the FIP Foundation are not eligible to apply for a FIP Foundation early career leadership development scholarship.
For more information, visit FIP Foundation.
