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.

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About Elevate

ATSE’s Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM program (“Elevate”) will award more than 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to women and non-binary people in STEM across the duration of the program.

The Elevate program provides:
• A scholarship
• Access to skill-building workshops
• Access to peer mentoring and networking events
• Access to 24/7 wellbeing and psychosocial support

Key dates

2027 program

Applications open: 1 July 2026
Information session: TBC
Applications close: 1 September 2026, 9.00 am AEST
Assessment period: September-October 2026
Scholarships announced: mid-November 2026
Scholarships commence: January 2027

Program eligibility

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 an eligible undergraduate STEM degree commencing in 2027

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.

Guidelines

The Elevate guidelines are available to read online or to download as a PDF.

Read 2027 Elevate program guidelines online.

Elevate Guidelines (scholars starting 2027 academic year) 1.8mb / pdf

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Applying to Elevate

You can read our helpful document Applying to Elevate online, or you can download it as a PDF.

Read Applying to Elevate online.

Applying to Elevate 96.7kb / pdf

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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.