L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents Caribbean for Women in Science Program

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.

Funding Information

• Award(s) of the prize: 2 Endowments per year
• Amount per endowment: Doctoral students, Postdoctoral students, or Early career: $10,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Doctoral Students
  • Having the nationality of one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Being enrolled in a doctoral study and carrying out their doctorate in a research laboratory in one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Conducting research in one of the scientific fields listed
  • Students in their first year PhD are NOT eligible
• Post-Doctorates
  • Having the nationality of one of the 24 countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Being enrolled in post-doctorate in a laboratory, a research institute, or a higher education institution in one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Having obtained a doctorate in one of the scientific fields
  • Conducting research in one of the scientific fields
• Early Career
  • Having the nationality of one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Being staff of a laboratory, a research institute, or a higher education institution in one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Having been for less than 3 years a staff of a laboratory, a research institute, or a higher education institution in one of the countries and territories in the Caribbean region
  • Conducting research in one of the scientific fields
  • Having obtained a doctorate in one of the scientific fields.

For more information, visit Fondation l’Oreal.