Deadline: 17-Mar-23
Green Industries SA has launched the applications for Women in Circular Economy Leadership scholarship to provide an opportunity for a South Australian woman who is an emerging or established leader working in the area of waste and resource recovery or related areas such as the Circular Economy to pursue an investigative project of a kind that is not readily available in South Australia.
Focus Areas
- Green Industries SA is leading the state’s transition to a circular economy. Green Industries SA Strategic Plan 2021-25 has identified the following strategic priorities focusing on:
- Circular products and services: Desiging their waste to keep resources ciculating in the economy and enabling sustainable procurement.
- Circular consumption: Reduciung wasteful consumption bu sustaining products through repair and reuse, avoiding waste, and improving recycling and recovery.
- Circular resource recovery: Investing in state of the art infrastructrue to unlock the value materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill.
- Circular sectors: Creating economic growth and job opportunities by making targeted industry sectors resources efficient and carbon neutral.
- Circular capacity: Capcity bui;ding through investement in training, education, innovation and research and development to nurture the next generation.
Benefits
- $5,000, with matched funding from the applicant’s employer encouraged.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply for a Scholarship you must:
- Be an Australian Citizen or a Permanent Resident over the age of 18
- Live and work in South Australia
- Have experience in and commitment to the circular economy and not be enrolled in tertiary studies directly related to the topic of your proposed project
- Have a detailed project plan outlining research methodolgies and expected research outputs and outcomes
- Be willing to disseminate the results of your findings.
- Note eligibility has been broadened to include women employed by the South Australian Government in addition to women employed in private sectors, research institutes or non-for-profit organisations.
Assessment Criteria
- Every application for an Award will be assessed as follows:
- Project
- The need for this project in South Australia or at a national level
- The benefits of the project to South Australia or at a national level
- The itinerary and places selected to undertake the project
- The achievability of the project.
- The upper limit of the Scholarship is $5,000. The nomination form must include a breakdown of the estimated costs of the project proposal e.g. travel, accommodation and/or conference costs etc.
- Applicants should also confirm if matched funding will be provided by their employer (matched funding is optional).
- Applicant
- Ability to maximise the opportunity of the Scholarship(current standing and experience in the field, skills and/or expertise)
- Ability and commitment to make a difference (ongoing involvement in the field, leadership qualities, a strategic approach, networks)
- Ability and commitment to disseminate findings
- Leadership(e.g.overcoming adversity with determination and creative problem solving, championing the skills of relationship building and negotiation in business, mentoring others to succeed, giving back to the community).
- Project
For more information, visit Women in Circular Economy Leadership.