2023 Functions Open: Underwriters Laboratories – ASEAN – U.S. Science Prize for Ladies
JAKARTA, February 8 – The ASEAN Committee on Science, Know-how, and Innovation (COSTI) is formally launching the decision for purposes for the ninth annual Underwriters Laboratories – ASEAN – U.S. Science Prize for Ladies competitors. The competition is supported, in partnership, by the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) and UL Analysis Institutes.
The 2023 competitors highlights ASEAN girls scientists who’re working to handle local weather change via analysis in clear vitality applied sciences, resembling renewable vitality battery storage, sensible grids, electrical automobiles, and vitality environment friendly merchandise and practices. Candidates in Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic (STEM) fields will compete in two classes: Mid-career and Senior Scientists. UL Analysis Institutes, a U.S.-based non-profit group devoted to the invention and software of scientific information, will award $12,500 to the winners in every class and $5,000 to the runner-up finalists. Winners will probably be introduced in October 2023.
This yr’s theme, “Electrification,” will showcase girls researchers who’ve developed modern machines or programs utilizing electrical energy. Electrification goals to interchange fossil gasoline applied sciences (coal, oil, and pure gasoline) with clear vitality applied sciences to scale back carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation, constructing, and industrial sectors. Addressing emissions from these sectors, which account for almost all of greenhouse gasoline emissions, is vital to decarbonizing the economic system within the ASEAN area and, in the end, mitigating the impacts of local weather change globally.
Chair of the ASEAN COSTI 2023 and Everlasting Secretary of Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications of Brunei Darussalam Mohammad Nazri Mohammad Yusof conveyed that, “The contribution of ASEAN girls scientists within the vitality sector must be extra highlighted as their work lies within the coronary heart of our effort to race towards the vitality disaster and local weather change influence.”
“The worldwide clear vitality transition we’re working towards requires collaboration among the many world’s finest minds,” mentioned Dr. Judy Jeevarajan, Vice President and Government Director of the Electrochemical Security Analysis Institute at UL Analysis Institutes. “To that finish, we’re proud to assist the work of those scientists as they tackle in the present day’s vital environmental points and assist lay a basis for a safer, sustainable and safer world for all of us.”
“Ladies all through ASEAN are conducting modern analysis to facilitate the transition to wash vitality. We is not going to reach tackling the existential disaster of local weather change with out investing in girls,” says U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN Yohannes Abraham. “That’s why the USA continues to proudly accomplice with ASEAN and Underwriters Laboratories to advertise and harness the work of girls in science from throughout ASEAN member states.”
Since 2014, the Science Prize for Ladies represents a profitable and ongoing U.S. initiative that helps ASEAN and its ten member states. As a part of the U.S. strategic method to the Indo-Pacific, USAID companions with ASEAN to advertise prosperity and connectivity via financial inclusion, girls’s empowerment, and good governance.
Easy methods to Apply? Study extra about this yr’s competitors by visiting the Science Prize for Ladies web site. Candidates should be ASEAN residents and maintain a doctoral diploma. The deadline is April 14, 2023.
For additional competitors queries, contact scienceprize4women@gmail.com. For public outreach, contact jakartausaidasean@usaid.gov.
About ASEAN
The Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) brings collectively Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam in a group united by a standard want and collective will to stay in a area of lasting peace, safety, stability, sustained financial development, shared prosperity, and social progress that promotes member states’ important pursuits, beliefs, and aspirations.
About USAID
As a part of the U.S. strategic method to the Indo-Pacific, the USA Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) works to advertise and exhibit democratic values and advance a free, open, resilient, linked, affluent, and safe world via worldwide improvement applications and humanitarian help. USAID companions with ASEAN to mitigate regional challenges, enhance financial development and integration, and strengthen rule of legislation to form insurance policies that affect nationwide sectoral approaches. Study extra at USAID ASEAN https://asean.usmission.gov/usaidasean/.
About UL Analysis Institutes
UL Analysis Institutes is a nonprofit analysis group devoted to advancing public security via scientific discovery. Since 1894, our analysis has superior our mission towards a safer, safer and sustainable future. Centered on international dangers from firemitigation and air high quality to secure vitality storage and digital privateness, we conduct rigorous impartial analysis, analyze security knowledge and accomplice with consultants to uncover and act on current and rising dangers to human security. Uncover extra at UL.org.
