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UNESCO PRIZE FOR GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S EDUCATION

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Application Deadline: 12 May 2025

LOCATION: France

The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions, and organizations to advance girls’ and women’s education. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Nominations can be made by Governments of UNESCO Member States via their Permanent Delegations to UNESCO, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in official partnership with UNESCO. Nominations must focus on an established project or programme designed to advance girls’ and women’s education. Each Permanent Delegation or NGO can make up to three nominations for any edition of the Prize. Self-nominations are not accepted.

The nominations will only be considered if the project/programme:

has a clear focus on advancing girls’ and women’s education, the promotion of gender equality in and through education, and contributes to one or more of the five priority areas of the Prize:

Participation: Supporting girls to transition from primary education to lower-secondary education and to complete full basic education 

Literacy: Supporting adolescent girls and young women to acquire literacy skills

Environment: Supporting the creation of a gender-responsive and safe teaching-learning environment Teachers: Engaging teachers to be change agents with gender-responsive teaching attitudes and practices

Skills: Supporting girls and women to acquire knowledge/skills for life and work

has already been running for at least two years at the time of nomination (for example a project nominated in 2025 must have been active since May 2023); 

shows evidence that it may be replicable, scalable and/or provide significant learning potential for initiatives in other contexts.

Once it has passed the basic eligibility requirements, the project/ programme of the candidate will be assessed by the Jury based on the following three criteria:

Impact: The project/programme’s impact should be qualitatively and/or quantitatively measureable and deliver tangible results relative to the invested resources. This can include demonstrable changes in: attitudes, beliefs and practices in favour of girls’ and women’s education.

girls’ educational participation, attendance, completion and learning outcomes; and/or

removing barriers to girls’ and women’s education, such as gender bias and stereotypes. 

Innovation: The project/programme stimulates, and/or draws on, innovative approaches advancing girls’ and women’s education. This includes new ways of working where “business as usual” has failed, and transformative “out-of  -the-box” thinking and actions. The project/programme can demonstrate innovation in terms of:    

the themes covered;

the methodology employed;

the channels used to create change for girls’  and women’s education; 

the specific knowledge mobilized about gender-related aspects of girls’ and women’s education in order to elaborate innovative solutions; and/or

other aspects, such as tools and products advancing girls’ and women’s education.

BENEFIT:

The Prize is conferred annually to two laureates and consists of an award of US $50,000 each to help further their work in the area of girls’ and women’s education. 

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CRI IRVINGTON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TO PROMOTE RACIAL DIVERSITY

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Application Deadline: September 1, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Eastern Time )

LOCATION: USA

The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship to Promote Racial Diversity supports qualified young scientists from underrepresented minorities at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in fundamental immunology and cancer immunology. 

ELIGIBILITY:

The CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship to Promote Racial Diversity is open to candidates who identify as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander. CRI also recognizes that underrepresentation can vary from setting to setting; individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and from other racial or ethnic groups that can be demonstrated convincingly to be underrepresented by the grantee institution are encouraged to apply. Both U.S. and non-U.S. citizens are eligible.

To be eligible, an applicant must be working at a nonprofit institution in the United States or abroad. 

Applicants must be working in areas directly related to immunology or cancer immunology. An eligible project must fall into the broad field of immunology with relevance to solving the cancer problem.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree by the date of award activation and must conduct their proposed research under a sponsor who holds a formal appointment as an assistant professor or higher rank at the host institution.

Applicants with 5 or more years of relevant postdoctoral experience at the time of award activation are not eligible, with the exception of M.D. applicants, who should not include years of residency in this calculation.

Only in exceptional circumstances will applicants who have already spent 3 or more years in a sponsor’s laboratory by the start date of fellowship be considered for a fellowship award.

The fellowship can be performed in the United States or abroad but must take place at a non-profit institution. There are no citizenship restrictions.

Only one fellow per sponsor may apply per application round, and faculty sponsors may not have more than three CRI-supported fellows at any time.

Resubmissions: Applicants are permitted to resubmit their fellowship application at a subsequent deadline provided that the new application is improved to reflect progress. Changes to the application should be addressed in the subsequent application.

BENEFIT:

Newly awarded fellowships provide a stipend of $74,000 for the first year, $76,000 for the second year, and $78,000 for the third year. An allowance of $5,000 per year is allotted to the host institution for use at the sponsor’s discretion to help pay for the fellow’s research supplies, travel to scientific meetings, health insurance, and/or childcare. CRI provides additional support for fellows to attend CRI’s annual International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference (CICON), and to participate in CRI’s soon-to-be-launched Bioinformatics Bootcamp.

Deductions for administrative overhead are not allowed from either the stipend or the institutional allowance. Payments are made monthly in U.S. currency to the host institution.

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