EMBO Programmes
EMBO continually monitors its programmes to ensure that they cater for scientists with young children or researchers returning to the bench after a career break for child-care. The aim is to encourage their re-entry into science and ensure family-friendly working conditions.
Family friendly criteria have been introduced for:
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Fellows receive a dependent’s allowance for each dependent family member (i.e. their spouse, if he/she is not working, and children). The allowance amounts to approximately 10% of the fellowship sum per dependent.
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Fellows are entitled to 3 months parental leave during their fellowship. Fellows who take parental leave during the fellowship are entitled to an extension of their fellowship for a period of up to 3 months.
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Fellows with child-care responsibilities can also apply to work part-time (or a combination of part-time and full-time) during the fellowship with the maximum time (full-time plus part-time) not exceeding 36 months.
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Candidates who have had a career break for at least one year for child-care reasons will be given special consideration when applying to stay within the same country.
EMBO is acutely aware of the low representation of women in senior positions in the life science in spite of equal representation at the graduate level. In an effort to help address this imbalance:
- Female young investigator candidates with children are entitled to an extension of the eligibility period by one year per child. For example, instead of the standard four-year limit, a female applicant with one child would be eligible to apply for the Young Investigator Programme five years after establishing her first independent laboratory.
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The EMBO Women in Science Programme offers organizers of EMBO Workshops, Conference Series and Lecture Courses the opportunity to include a talk from a scientist to address issues related to ‘Women in Science’.
Please send the completed applications form to: women @ embo.org
A persistent problem - Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists
Anna Ledin, Lutz Bornmann, Frank Gannon & Gerlind Wallon, EMBO reports 8, 11, 982-987 (2007)
| Full text | Supplementary information | PDF |
Annual statistics of female participation in EMBO’s programmes | PDF |
Searching for discrimination. Are women treated fairly in the EMBO postdoctoral fellowship scheme? - The article summarizes the results of a study undertaken by Frank Gannon and colleagues regarding possible gender bias in the long-term fellowship selections.
Frank Gannon, Sara Quirk & Sebastian Guest, EMBO reports 2, 8, 655-657 (2001) | Full text | PDF |
- Chemistry professor Carol Robinson of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom is this year's winner of FEBS and EMBO Women in Science Award...