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Schlumberger Foundation Call for Applications for the 2024-2025 Faculty for the Future Fellowships
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The applications website will receive new applications from September 4th to November 10th, 2023 for the 2024-2025 Faculty for the Future Fellowships.
Online information sessions are scheduled from mid-August to mid-September 2023. If you wish to attend an online meeting and learn more about the Schlumberger Foundation, its Faculty for the Future program and the 2024-2025 selection process, and ask Faculty for the Future grantees and Alumnae of the program to tell you about their Fellowship experience, please email faculty4future@slb.com to request a meeting link invitation. Please make sure to mention what is your country of citizenship in the email request, and in what capacity you will attend the meeting (potential candidate, university representative, Government representative, NGO representative…).
The Schlumberger Foundation is an independent nonprofit entity that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Since its inception, the Foundation has focused on funding
a variety of programs in scientific educational all over the world.
Recognizing the link between science, technology, and socioeconomic development as well as the role of education in realizing individual potential, we developed Faculty for the Future, our flagship program.
This community of women in STEM from developing countries grows every year, and is connecting via Forums, both online and in-person.
Faculty for the Future
The program’s long-term goal is to accelerate gender equality in STEM by generating conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific careers through alleviating some of the barriers they encounter
when enrolling in STEM disciplines. The program is committed to gender parity in science in the interests of sustainable development and recognizes that full access to and participation in a STEM
curriculum is essential for the empowerment of women and girls. By accelerating gender equality in STEM, the talent and capacities of these women can be developed for the benefit of their local communities,
regions and nations.
The program awards fellowships for advanced research in STEM at leading research institutes abroad. Faculty for the Future Fellows are expected to return to their home countries upon completion of their
studies to contribute to the economic, social and technological advancement of their home regions by strengthening the STEM teaching and research faculties of their home institutions as well as through
their leadership in science-based entrepreneurship. They are also expected to contribute to the public sector where their newly acquired technical and scientific skills can help provide evidence-based
support for STEM policy making, including topics of gender representation.
This program acts as a catalyst for these women to further tap into their potential. Through heightened motivation, sharpened self-awareness and a lasting passion for science they in turn capture the
imagination of other women and girls around them to regard scientific pursuits as a necessary means towards advancement and growth.
Since its launch in 2004, 863 women from 90 countries have received Faculty for the Future fellowships for PhD and Post-Doctorate STEM research programs. Through interactive online tools and in-person
meetings, the program provides a platform for these women to take joint action in identifying and unravelling the impediments that are holding back equal opportunities in STEM education and careers
in their local communities and home countries.