The Université PSL is a French University created in 2011 and comprising nine individual institutions. The university covers the fields of science, humanities and social science, art and engineering.

The Women and Science Chair of the University of Paris Dauphine-PSL aims to mobilise and develop multidisciplinary approaches to analyse the determinants and the impact of the low presence of women in scientific studies and careers (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology). The Chair brings together research centres and academics from both Paris Dauphine-PSL and elsewhere. The Chair launches an annual call for proposals aimed at the entire academic community, which does not have any restrictions related to discipline or methodology.

Proposals are welcome that focus on one or many of the Chair’s priority topics. For 2025, the jury is also particularly interested in projects on the following themes:

• Stereotypes and scientific socialisation: How stereotypes concerning science and mathematics operate from childhood and throughout life.
• Women and digital technology: The place of women in the fields of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI), evolution of the professions, gender bias in technology, AI and selection/recruitment processes, role of social networks.
• Education and transmission: Role of teaching methods in the guidance, inclusion and construction of scientific vocations.
• Gender, science and society: The place of women in scientific fields with a high scientific impact (health, climate, transitions). Roles and modes of action for families, educators, decision makers and prescribers, particularly for men, in the construction of a less unequal society.

Particular interest will paid to projects involving researchers from different disciplines (management science, sociology, economics, mathematics etc) and/or involving international analyses and comparisons.

To be eligible, research projects must be conducted by a senior researcher who holds a PhD and has published research papers. Applicants may be of any nationality and may be based anywhere in the world.

A maximum of €10,000 will be awarded per project. Five to seven research projects will be selected for 2025.

The application deadline is 26 September 2025.