Applications for the 2025 Early Career Leadership Development Scholarships are closed. 

The FIP Foundation will award six scholarships to assist young pharmacists or pharmaceutical scientists to attend the 2025 FIP World Congress and participate in the Leadership Development Workshop, which are planned to take place from 31 August to 3 September in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The deadline for submission of applications is every year on February 1st. 

What is the FIP Foundation Early Career Leadership Development Scholarship?

The FIP Foundation, has partnered with the ECPG and the Regional Forums to award six scholarships to assist young pharmacists or pharmaceutical scientists to attend the FIP World Congress and participate in the Leadership Development Workshop.

Objectives of the scholarships

1. To assist young pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists or pharmacy educators from low, lower-middle or upper middle-income countries to attend an FIP World Congress.
2. To provide an opportunity for the recipient to further develop his/her leadership skills and knowledge and to apply these skills in future professional organization leadership roles,
3. To support the recipient in applying leadership skills to improve pharmaceutical practice, pharmaceutical sciences and/or pharmaceutical education in his/her home country and globally.

What does the Early Career Leadership Development scholarship include?

• • FIP Congress registration
  • Hotel accommodation  (5 nights, a maximum of 625 Euros in 2025)
  • Visa fee (if needed). However, costs related to travelling to another country to obtain the visa are not included.
  • Financial compensation for travel will be based on the recipient’s region for the most economic travel relative to the location of the Congress.  Preapproval of travel is required from the FIP Foundation Office (foundation@fip.org) – by Submission of travel plan and expense amount prior to purchase of airfare. 
  • One-year Individual Membership of FIP
  • A meeting with the leaders of the FIP Foundation, FIP ECPG, Regional Forum ExCo, and FIP
  • A mentor appointed from the Early Career Pharmaceutical Group (ECPG) and a mentor appointed from the region to assist with project planning and implementation.

Who is eligible to apply?

1. Applicants must be pharmacists, pharmacy educators, or pharmaceutical scientists and have graduated within the past 8 years from their first degree in pharmacy or pharmaceutical sciences;
2. Applicants must live and work or study in a country or territory with an income level classified as low, lower-middle or upper middle by the World Bank in the latest available classification. It is not mandatory that applicants are nationals of, or live in, countries or territories where FIP has member organisations.
3. Regardless of the nationality of the applicant, the application will be evaluated according to the WHO region of his/her country or territory of residence and work/study.
4. Applicants who have previously received financial support or a scholarship from the FIP Foundation are not eligible to apply for a FIP Foundation early career leadership development scholarship.

How can applications be made?

Applications are submitted electronically through the FIP Foundation’s website.

A complete application should consist of:

1. A complete application form
   
2. A two-page (maximum) letter of interest by the applicant describing:

• how attending the FIP Congress and the Leadership Development Workshop (LDW) will help him or her to further their engagement in a professional society in their country of origin and
• how the applicant intends to share and/or apply the leadership knowledge and experience gained through the FIP Congress, in a project to improve pharmaceutical practice, pharmaceutical science and/or pharmaceutical education in their country of origin. This concept will be developed and presented at the LDW and further refined in the post-congress period.

3. The applicant’s curriculum vitae (CV) should not exceed two pages, highlighting the applicant’s academic background, language skills, professional experience and development, contributions in terms of leadership and innovation and any other elements the applicant considers relevant for the application.
4. A letter of recommendation from, for example, the applicant’s supervisor, manager, employer, or dean of school.
5. A letter of recommendation from a national professional pharmacy or pharmaceutical sciences organization (the organization does not have to be an FIP member organization).
6. Certificate of the first degree;
7. A recent photograph of the applicant.

What is the application deadline?

Complete applications must be submitted by 1 February of the year in which the FIP Congress takes place. All applications will be acknowledged. Any applications that do not comply with the formal requirements described in these guidelines will not be accepted/considered.

We encourage all applicants to carefully review the FIP Early Career Leadership Development Scholarship Application Guide for detailed information on application assessment, funding criteria, and more.