International STEM programs are open to women worldwide, regardless of citizenship or country of study. These include global fellowships from UNESCO, L'Oréal, TWAS, and major tech companies, as well as programs that fund study or research in multiple countries.
Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) / FS-ISAC
Computer Science
A scholarship of up to $10,000 for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in cybersecurity or information secu…
View details →AnitaB.org
Computer Science
$15,000 award presented on the mainstage at Grace Hopper Celebration for student women in technology who demonstrate exc…
View details →Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Mathematics
Deadline: February
Annual biographical essay contest in which students interview a woman or gender-minority mathematician and write about t…
View details →Society for Science / Regeneron
General STEM
Deadline: March
The world's largest pre-college science competition, bringing together 1,700+ student finalists from 60+ countries who h…
View details →Conrad Foundation / Space Center Houston
Engineering
Deadline: February
A global student innovation competition where high school and middle school teams develop solutions to real-world proble…
View details →FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Engineering
Deadline: January
High school students in grades 9–12 design, build, and program industrial-sized robots in six weeks to compete in a them…
View details →USA Computing Olympiad
Computer Science
Deadline: January
A free online competitive programming competition offering contests across four divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinu…
View details →Breakthrough Prize Foundation
General STEM
Deadline: September
An annual global science video competition where high school students create short videos explaining a challenging conce…
View details →ISACA Foundation
Cybersecurity
A global scholarship program from the ISACA Foundation for undergraduate and graduate students worldwide pursuing degree…
View details →Environmental Science
Grants from the Society of Wetland Scientists supporting student research in wetland science and ecology.…
View details →Other
Deadline: February 10
Research grants from the Paleontological Society funding graduate and undergraduate student projects in paleontology.…
View details →Other
Research grants from the Clay Minerals Society funding student projects in clay science, mineralogy, and geology.…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: June 30
Up to US$7,000 over three consecutive years for undergraduate and graduate students committed to signal processing educa…
View details →Graduate Women New Zealand (GWNZ)
All STEM
Fellowship for outstanding New Zealand female graduates undertaking doctoral study, providing financial assistance and h…
View details →Major League Hacking
Computer Science
Deadline: Rolling
A 12-week remote program where participants contribute to open source projects, work on production software, and receive…
View details →Software Freedom Conservancy
Computer Science
Deadline: February
Three-month paid remote internships with free and open source software organizations for people subject to systemic bias…
View details →Linux Foundation
Computer Science
Deadline: Rolling
Connects students and open source newcomers with mentors from Linux Foundation-hosted projects including Linux kernel, K…
View details →Other
A postdoctoral fellowship for early-career researchers in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computing …
View details →Other
Deadline: October
The flagship international exchange program of the U.S. Department of State, offering Study/Research and English Teachin…
View details →Biology
The Human Frontier Science Program offers Long-Term Fellowships for PhD holders in the life sciences and Cross-Disciplin…
View details →Biology
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences for up to two years, with internatio…
View details →Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Other
A fellowship enabling internationally recognized researchers of any nationality and discipline to carry out long-term re…
View details →Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Other
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science funds overseas postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at Japanese u…
View details →Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Biomedical
A program from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network supporting early-career scientists worldwide pursuing bold, interdisci…
View details →Other
Postdoctoral fellowships from Hong Kong's Croucher Foundation supporting Hong Kong permanent residents to pursue full-ti…
View details →Other
Deadline: September
EU-funded postdoctoral fellowships supporting PhD-holding researchers of any nationality to advance their careers throug…
View details →ETH Zurich
Other
Deadline: January 15 annually (next cycle Jan 15, 2027)
A postdoctoral fellowship for researchers pursuing unconventional, cross-disciplinary projects outside the scientific ma…
View details →Swiss National Science Foundation
Other
Deadline: Twice yearly (next August 4, 2026)
Enables postdoctoral researchers connected to Switzerland to undertake a research stay abroad to strengthen their academ…
View details →IBM Research
Computer Science
Deadline: Annual (faculty nomination)
A long-running fellowship recognizing exceptional PhD students in the final years of study working in IBM's focus areas …
View details →Melanoma Research Alliance
Biomedical
Deadline: Annual (proposals ~November)
Supports early-career researchers within five years of their first academic faculty appointment pursuing bold new ideas …
View details →Biomedical
Postdoctoral fellowship from the ALS Association supporting early-career scientists conducting ALS research and building…
View details →Environmental Science
Grants supporting early-career nature-conservation projects in developing countries around the world.…
View details →Other
Postdoctoral fellowships enabling researchers of any nationality to work at host institutions in Spain and Portugal.…
View details →Other
Awards from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences recognizing outstanding young scientist…
View details →Other
A program funding postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM fields to conduct research at leading Israeli universities.…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: February (annual)
A Children's Tumor Foundation award supporting early-career researchers studying neurofibromatosis.…
View details →Other
Deadline: May 13, 2026
A National Research Foundation Singapore fellowship funding early-career researchers to lead independent projects at Sin…
View details →Other
Deadline: January 10 / July 15 (annual)
A Leakey Foundation grant funding research into human origins and evolution.…
View details →Environmental Science
Green Talents - International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development is a environmental science research f…
View details →Biology
EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship (EIPOD-LinC) is a biology research fellowship providing funding to early-…
View details →Other
ERC Starting Grant is a other research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
View details →Biomedical
FRAXA funds postdoctoral fellows worldwide for up to two years to pursue translational and preclinical Fragile X syndrom…
View details →Other
Sweden's Wallenberg Foundation funds outstanding early-career Swedish scientists for postdoctoral study abroad at Stanfo…
View details →Biomedical
Denmark's Lundbeck Foundation funds early-career postdocs (within 5 years of PhD) over three years for neuroscience rese…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: September 10
A one-year, $50,000 grant from Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, supporting early-career physician-scientists beginni…
View details →Biology
Provides veterinary students a stipend to conduct mentored research advancing the health of dogs, cats, equids, and wild…
View details →Other
The Wenner-Gren Foundations (Stockholm) fund non-Swedish postdoctoral researchers to carry out research training at Swed…
View details →Other
POLONEZ BIS is the Polish National Science Centre's Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND postdoctoral fellowship program bringi…
View details →Other
The Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) in French-speaking Belgium offers the Chargé de recherches postdoct…
View details →Biomedical
A research fellowship from the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA) Inherited Neuropathies Consortium Alliance support…
View details →Biomedical
The Michael Geisman Fellowship from the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation funding postdoctoral research on osteogenesis…
View details →Biomedical
A postdoctoral fellowship from the Dravet Syndrome Foundation supporting early-career researchers studying Dravet syndro…
View details →Biomedical
Research grants from the Amyloidosis Foundation supporting early-career investigators studying amyloidosis.…
View details →Other
A nine-month fellowship at MIT for science, technology, environmental, and medical journalists.…
View details →Biomedical
A postdoctoral fellowship from the FSHD Society supporting research on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.…
View details →Biology
Graduate student research awards from the Society of Systematic Biologists supporting research in systematics and evolut…
View details →Biomedical
FARA funds two-year postdoctoral fellowships (up to $100,000/year) for early-career researchers studying Friedreich's at…
View details →Biomedical
Two-year fellowships of up to $100,000/year supporting early-career scientists (postdocs up to seven years past PhD) pur…
View details →Biomedical
The Hydrocephalus Association runs annual grant cycles funding hydrocephalus research, including Innovator, Accelerator,…
View details →Biomedical
UMDF, the largest non-governmental funder of mitochondrial disease research, offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (up …
View details →Biomedical
Two-year fellowships (up to $40,000/year) for postdoctoral-level scientists pursuing cancer prevention and early-detecti…
View details →Biomedical
Fellowships of up to $75,000/year for one to two years supporting scientists and new researchers in cystinosis research,…
View details →Biomedical
Endocrine Society program providing a $2,500 honorarium plus a travel grant for first- to third-year medical and graduat…
View details →Apple
Computer Science
An immersive one-week program at Apple headquarters for app-driven organizations founded or led by women, offering acces…
View details →Other
A continually updated directory of paid employer return-to-work programs (returnships) worldwide, many in STEM and techn…
View details →Mathematics Foundation of America
Mathematics
Deadline: February
A five-week academic summer program for mathematically talented middle and high school students (ages 13-18) from around…
View details →Amazon
Computer Science
A return-to-work program for women who have taken a career break of 12 months or more and are re-entering the workforce,…
View details →Cisco
Computer Science
Cisco's supported hiring program (Rejoin) for technical professionals in India and Australia returning after a career br…
View details →Amazon Web Services
Cybersecurity
AWS re/Start is a cybersecurity training and career program.…
View details →Computer Science
Google Career Certificates is a computer science training and career program.…
View details →Mathematics
Free online team mathematics competition for middle and high school students, held annually since 2003 with worldwide pa…
View details →Computer Science
A large computer science competition offering free online informatics and computational-thinking tasks for students aged…
View details →Computer Science
The premier international computer science and algorithmic programming competition for secondary school students, held a…
View details →Mathematics
The world's most prestigious mathematics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1959 with nation…
View details →Physics
The leading international physics competition for secondary school students, held annually since 1967 with national team…
View details →Chemistry
International chemistry competition for secondary school students from 90+ countries, featuring theoretical and laborato…
View details →Biology
The premier worldwide high school biology competition, drawing national olympiad winners from more than 70 countries and…
View details →Other
Annual international competition where secondary students solve language and computational-linguistics puzzles through l…
View details →Mathematics
International mathematics olympiad exclusively for high-school female students, started in 2012 and now including 60+ co…
View details →Engineering
International robotics initiative with leagues in Soccer, Rescue, @Home and Industrial, drawing thousands of participant…
View details →Cybersecurity
A large student-run cybersecurity event hosted by NYU, with CTF, embedded security, AI hardware and cyber policy challen…
View details →Other
The EU's flagship science competition showcasing top student research projects, with young scientists aged 14-20 from ne…
View details →Computer Science
A global network of free, volunteer-led coding clubs for young people aged 7-17, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…
View details →Engineering
International STEAM robotics competition (originated in China) with age-based divisions such as MakeX Explorer for ages …
View details →Engineering
A paid internship and mentorship program for undergraduate women and gender-minority students passionate about aerospace…
View details →Computer Science
A $10,000 annual scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited US or C…
View details →Carnegie Mellon University
Engineering
A 12-week summer research program at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute for outstanding undergraduate students from ar…
View details →Intel
Engineering
A scholarship of €3,000 for women enrolled in undergraduate engineering or computer science programs at Irish universiti…
View details →Computer Science
A €7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate computer science degrees at accredited universities in…
View details →Computer Science
Deadline: April
A global program where Google awards stipends to contributors to spend a summer working on open source software projects…
View details →Amazon
Computer Science
Deadline: September
Amazon's summer SDE internship places undergraduate and graduate students on engineering teams across AWS, retail, and o…
View details →Apple
Engineering
Deadline: December
Apple offers paid internships across hardware engineering, software engineering, machine learning, and design for underg…
View details →Jane Street
Mathematics
Deadline: November
Highly competitive paid internships in software engineering, trading, research, and quantitative finance, providing deep…
View details →Citadel / Correlation One
Data Science
Deadline: Rolling
A series of data science competitions hosted by Citadel and Correlation One, open to university students globally, where…
View details →ICPC Foundation
Computer Science
Deadline: October
The world's largest and most prestigious collegiate programming contest, where teams of three undergraduates compete in …
View details →Meta
Computer Science
Deadline: September
An annual international online programming competition hosted by Meta since 2011, where participants solve algorithmic p…
View details →NASA
Aerospace
Deadline: October
NASA's annual two-day international hackathon challenging participants of all skill levels to solve real-world problems …
View details →Biology
An undergraduate summer research program in science and biotechnology funded by the Amgen Foundation, placing students i…
View details →Engineering
A summer research internship placing undergraduates from North American, British, and Irish universities with research g…
View details →Vertical Flight Society
Aerospace
Merit-based scholarships of $4,000 to $6,000 awarded annually by the Vertical Flight Foundation, the philanthropic arm o…
View details →Physics
Scholarships from the Optica Foundation (formerly OSA) supporting undergraduate and master's students studying optics, p…
View details →Engineering
A global non-profit that arranges paid, on-site STEM (science, engineering, and technology) internships abroad for unive…
View details →IEEE Computer Society
Computer Science
Deadline: October
An academic excellence award co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computing honor societ…
View details →Engineering
Supported by the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Foundation, this merit-based scholarship goes to an incoming under…
View details →Engineering
The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers awards undergraduate scholarships (including the Mandell and the Ro…
View details →Other
Since 1922, Sigma Xi's GIAR program has funded student-designed research projects across all STEM disciplines for both u…
View details →Engineering
The Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation offers numerous named scholarships to full-time undergraduate students majo…
View details →Engineering
The International Society of Automation's Educational Foundation awards scholarships to ISA student members enrolled in …
View details →BIOS, Arizona State University
Environmental Science
An NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program in ocean and marine sciences at the Bermuda Institute of O…
View details →Mathematics
A paid trading internship at the market-making firm Optiver, offering hands-on training in options theory and live-marke…
View details →National Conservation Foundation
Environmental Science
Deadline: International competition in July
North America's largest high school environmental competition; teams are tested in aquatic ecology, forestry, soils and …
View details →Engineering
Deadline: Annual season; 2026 World Championship June 25-27, 2026 (Newfoundland, Canada)
An international underwater robotics competition in which K-12, community college, and university students design, build…
View details →Biology
iGEM is an international synthetic-biology competition in which student teams design and build engineered biological sys…
View details →Engineering
A global student engineering competition to design and build ultra-energy-efficient vehicles.…
View details →Computer Science
A global student technology competition run by Microsoft in which teams build apps and startups.…
View details →Aerospace
An annual student competition to design, build, and launch a soda-can-sized satellite payload.…
View details →Aerospace
An international competition for university teams to build and operate Mars rover prototypes, organized by the Mars Soci…
View details →Computer Science
A community and career program supporting undergraduate and early-career women in tech through mentorship, events, and i…
View details →Other
Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition is a other STEM competition open to students.…
View details →Cybersecurity
The Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition tasks university teams with performing a realistic penetration tes…
View details →University of Florida
Chemistry
Deadline: January 15
UF-administered international REU placing U.S. undergraduates at French universities for chemistry and biochemistry rese…
View details →Mathematics
Deadline: Annual - contest weekend late January / early February
MCM/ICM is an international mathematical modeling contest run by COMAP for teams of up to three high school or undergrad…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: Annual collegiate design series (multiple events per season)
Baja SAE is a collegiate design series run by SAE International in which university teams design and build a single-seat…
View details →Aerospace
Deadline: Annual - proposals due each autumn, fly-off each April
AIAA Design/Build/Fly is an annual aerospace engineering competition where university student teams design, fabricate an…
View details →Chemistry
Undergraduate scholarships from the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society for students in chemistry, physics,…
View details →Aerospace
The world's largest collegiate rocket engineering competition, run by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, wher…
View details →Physics
An annual international astronomy and astrophysics competition for secondary school students, with theoretical, data-ana…
View details →Physics
A global team-based competition ('Physics World Cup') where high school teams research ~17 open-ended physics problems a…
View details →Environmental Science
An annual international competition organized under the International Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO) for stude…
View details →Engineering
An international robotics competition organized by DJI in which university student teams design and build combat robots …
View details →Cybersecurity
A scholarship from the ISACA Foundation supporting students worldwide pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in IT…
View details →Physics
SPIE's main scholarship programme for students studying optics, photonics, or a related discipline, open to SPIE Student…
View details →Other
An annual awards and scholarships programme from Women in GIS covering undergraduate scholarships, graduate scholarships…
View details →Palantir
Computer Science
A $7,000 scholarship for women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in computer science or a related technical fie…
View details →International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Physics
An IAEA fellowship providing up to €40,000 in total support for women pursuing a master's degree in nuclear science, eng…
View details →University of Cambridge
Other
A full-cost postgraduate scholarship for outstanding international students to pursue a one-year postgraduate degree or …
View details →Stanford University
Other
A fully funded, multidisciplinary graduate leadership program at Stanford University open to applicants worldwide pursui…
View details →Other
A STEM graduate fellowship sponsored by the governments of Australia, India, Japan and the United States (open to citize…
View details →ACM SIGHPC
Data Science
Deadline: May
A fellowship created by ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing to increase the diversity of students…
View details →Other
The Rhodes Scholarship, administered by the Rhodes Trust, funds postgraduate study at the University of Oxford across al…
View details →Engineering
Combustion Institute Bernard Lewis Fellowship is a engineering scholarship or research award providing funding to gradua…
View details →Biology
Deadline: December 15
Herpetologists' League E.E. Williams Research Grant is a biology scholarship or research award providing funding to grad…
View details →Other
Meteoritical Society Research Grant is a other scholarship or research award providing funding to graduate students in t…
View details →Environmental Science
SCB awards Graduate Student Research Awards each year to graduate-student members demonstrating financial need, supporti…
View details →Other
The Explorers Club Pathfinder Grant (formerly the Exploration Fund Grant) awards $2,500 to $5,000 to graduate and post-g…
View details →Biology
Student research grants in herpetology from the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR).…
View details →ETH Zurich
Engineering
A merit scholarship for incoming masters students at ETH Zurich, covering study and living costs plus a tuition waiver f…
View details →Other
European Union scholarships covering tuition, travel, and living costs for students admitted to an Erasmus Mundus Joint …
View details →Other
Scholarships from the Swiss Confederation for international graduate researchers to pursue doctoral or postdoctoral rese…
View details →Other
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research funds a ladder of awards from the National Science Scholarship (…
View details →Other
The Japanese government scholarship for international students, covering tuition, a monthly living allowance, and travel…
View details →Meta
Computer Science
A two-year fellowship for exceptional PhD students conducting research in areas relevant to Meta's research agenda, incl…
View details →Microsoft Research
Computer Science
Deadline: November
Microsoft Research offers paid internships for PhD students to collaborate with world-class researchers on projects in A…
View details →Computer Science
Apple's AI/ML PhD fellowship supports emerging research leaders in computer science and machine learning with up to two …
View details →Computer Science
An annual award from the Association for Computing Machinery recognizing the best doctoral dissertations in computer sci…
View details →Biomedical
Deadline: February 1, June 1, October 1 (annual)
PhD fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds supporting outstanding junior scientists pursuing basic research in b…
View details →Engineering
Deadline: September 1
INCOSE Foundation Stevens Doctoral Award is a engineering scholarship or research award providing funding to phd student…
View details →Chemistry
Deadline: November 15
IAGC PhD Student Research Grants is a chemistry scholarship or research award providing funding to phd students in the f…
View details →Other
TWAS PhD Fellowship Programmes is a other research fellowship providing funding to early-career researchers.…
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Structured English-language doctoral programs run jointly by Max Planck Institutes and partner German universities, span…
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Germany's largest research organisation funds doctoral researchers and early-career scientists across its 18 national re…
View details →EPFL
Engineering
Salaried doctoral positions across EPFL's doctoral schools in computer and communication sciences, electrical engineerin…
View details →Nanyang Technological University
Engineering
Doctoral scholarships at Nanyang Technological University covering tuition and a monthly stipend, including the NTU Rese…
View details →Major international programs include the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Fellowships, TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) fellowships, UNESCO's MAB Young Scientists Award, and fellowships from Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies that are open globally.
Yes — programs listed as "International" accept applications from women in most countries. Some have specific regional priorities (e.g., programs focused on developing nations). Always check the eligibility section on the official program page for citizenship or residency requirements.
Many are — L'Oréal-UNESCO fellowships provide €15,000–20,000 for postdoctoral research. TWAS fellowships cover full research costs at host institutions. Tech company programs (Google PhD Fellowships, Microsoft Research) cover tuition and living stipends. Funding amounts vary by program and region.
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