DEWIS Award

Introduction

DEWIS (Delft Women in Science) is the women’s network for scientists at the TU Delft and our mission is to help the university to attract more women in academic positions and to contribute to an inclusive, safe environment that makes these women want to stay, while giving them the opportunity to grow and flourish in their academic careers.

Since 2007, DEWIS handed out a yearly DEWIS-award for very talented female PhD students. The aim of the DEWIS-award changed, to make it more in line with what DEWIS stands for.  A DEWIS Award has been given since 2020 for a recognition of an individual or a group that has made an extraordinary contribution to realising an inclusive work environment and to increasing gender equity and gender diversity at TU Delft.

The award contributes to increasing awareness about gender-related barriers of female scientists, while inspiring the TUD community on the importance of gender diversity and becoming more and more inclusive.