Elevate aims to address inequities in STEM through comprehensive scholarships enabling more diverse women and non-binary people to access tertiary STEM education, professional skills development and STEM leadership opportunities with industry and academia.
Read the 2025 Elevate scholars announcement.
Applications for the 2026 cohort will open in May 2025.
About Elevate
Elevate aims to address inequities in STEM through comprehensive scholarships enabling more diverse women and non-binary people to access tertiary STEM education, professional skills development and STEM leadership opportunities with industry and academia.
ATSE's Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM program will award up to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to women and non-binary people in STEM. Elevate aims to address gender inequities in STEM through fostering more women and non-binary led industry-academia collaborations in applied research and business, growing professional skills of women in STEM and propelling women and non-binary people into leadership.
The Elevate program provides:
• A scholarship
• Access to events and networking
• Mentoring
• Wellbeing support during scholars’ university studies
Elevate scholarships are awarded across three categories – Undergraduate, Postgraduate Research and Leadership. The program is funded by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, the Department of Defence and Snowy Hydro Limited. A network of partner organisations from across industry and academia support program delivery.
Program Eligibility and Guidelines
Applicants are required to meet all three eligibility criteria:
- Identify as a woman or non-binary person
- Be enrolling as a domestic student at an Australian University
- Be planning to undertake a STEM degree OR higher studies to improve business acumen (leadership category only), commencing in 2025
ATSE particularly encourages applications from individuals who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; individuals from regional, rural or remote areas; LGBTQIA+; individuals from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds; low-socioeconomic backgrounds; or those living with a disability. Diversity, inclusion, and achievement relative to opportunity will be considered in the assessment and selection process.
Key dates – 2025 program
Applications opened: 1 May 2024
Applications closed: 30 August 2024
Assessment period: September-October 2024
Scholarships announced: November 2024
Scholarships commence: January 2025
Key dates – 2026 program
Applications open: May 2025
Register your interest
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Elevate partners
Elevate partners
