Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM

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.
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Read the 2025 Elevate scholars announcement.

Applications for the 2026 cohort will open in May 2025.

 

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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.

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About Elevate

Learn about Elevate's application categories, eligibility requirements and more.

 

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. 

Read about the program.

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

If you are interested in finding out more about the program and being notified about future application rounds, please sign up to our mailing list.

 

 
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About Elevate

Learn more about the Elevate program, eligibility and application categories.

 
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Elevate Advisory Group

STEM champions from across the breadth of academia and industry who will help shape an immersive program for scholarship recipients.

 
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Elevate program strategy

Our vision for the Elevate scholarship program is an inclusive and equitable STEM sector where scholars can collaborate, lead and excel in academia and industry.

 

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