NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA

For the first time, the Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of scientific and scientific-technical contractual (thematic) activities funding runs a contest for the selection of scientific topics under the heading of the progress of women’s leadership. 

Although Armenia has good indicators concerning women’s participation in science (based on 2019 data, more than 52 per cent of the overall number of employees of the organizations performing scientific and scientific-technical activities in the Republic of Armenia are women, whereas the global rate is below 30 per cent), only about 25 per cent of leaders of scientific groups and topics funded by the Science Committee are women. The new contest aims to bridge this gap based on the RA Government decision N 1334-L made on September 19, 2019, approving “RA Gender Policy Strategic Program 2019-2023” as well as the decree N 59-Ա/2 of January 29, 2020, of RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport approving “Roadmap for Integration of Research and Development Sphere of the Republic of Armenia into the European Research Area” on the defined priorities. 

The main features of the contest of selection of scientific topics under the heading of the progress of women’s leadership are:

• Women who are born after January 1, 1966, possess an academic degree as well as do not hold a senior position started on February 1, 2020, until applying for the contest at a scientific organization or higher educational establishment are eligible for the position of team leader. 

• The team leader should possess a scientific publication meeting the requirements of the invitation.

• The team should involve at least one female member, under the age of 35 (until the deadline of applications). In case of women having children the threshold of the age of 35 is subject to review – adding 1 year to the woman’s age for each child.      

• The group should have a scientific counselor engaged in research activities at a foreign scientific organization, who should possess at least an h-index of 10, based on Scopus data. While working on a certain topic, the counselor should be present at least 15 days in the Republic of Armenia, and group members should be present at least 15 days at the scientific organization of where the counselor is engaged in research activities.

• After the end of working on the topic, group members are requested to submit scientific manuscripts in the scope of the particular program meeting certain criteria in high-ranking publications. In case of not meeting the requirement, the latter will impact the expert assessment of the scientific topic submitted by the group members in the future contest programs announced by the committee.

• The Group member should make popular science materials accessible for everyone (interviews, publications in popular science journals, videos, discussions having wide reach), which will be taken into consideration while grading the final work. 

The grants will be awarded research groups with the 36 months length.  The average salary of a group member on a monthly basis is 150,000 AMD. 

The announcement of the contest and invitation package can be found at http://scs.am/am/03-07-2020-m

For further information, please contact NUACA Department of Scientific Policy: tel. +37493 504 505 (Viber, WhatsApp)

Email: scientificpolicy@nuaca.am