The 2021 edition of the Awards will designate five outstanding scientific researchers in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Each of the five Laureates will receive an award of €100,000 for her great contribution to advances in scientific research. They will be celebrated in a ceremony to be held in March 2021.
Since the beginning of the program in 1998, the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science, Awards have honored 112 laureates, including three who won the Nobel Prize.
Scientists around the world are invited to nominate candidates and the international jury of eminent scientists makes the final selection. Renowned scientists and partner institutions in the country are invited to present and nominate the most qualified candidates through the online dedicated platform .
The platform is very user-friendly and is the only tool available for the submission of the candidates’ applications and later for the selection process. The nominators will have to sign into the platform and upload all the necessary documents in order to submit the candidate’s application. If new to the system, the nominator will need to create a user id and password.
In the Annex, you will find the Rules and Regulations guiding the program
The deadline for submitting nominations is Sunday, 31 May 2020. Please note that the Jury will consider only nominations received through the online platform and prior to this deadline. No paper applications will be accepted.