The Regional Awards recognize women impact entrepreneurs from around the world who are leveraging business as a force for good. Please review the “Who should apply?” section of our website to ensure you meet all the eligibility criteria. You can also reference our Selection Criteria and Scoring Rubric to guide your answers. We strongly recommend that you first write your answers in a separate document, then transfer them into the online form.

The Cartier Women's Initiative team, its partners and the jury will treat all business information submitted with utmost confidentiality. Aside from a brief summary (business name, brief description, field of industry) of the businesses selected, no individually identifiable information will be made available to the public without the prior authorization of the applicant. 

If your business is shortlisted, you will be asked to provide additional supporting documentation. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of applications we are unable to provide individual feedback to non-finalists.

NOTE: We accept only one application per business per year. Businesses that submit applications to multiple award categories or applications from multiple founders will be disqualified. Please refer to the FAQ to choose the best category for your business.

APPLICATION DATES & INSTRUCTIONS

Key dates: 

• The online application form will be open from April 16 to June 16, 2026 at 2pm Central European Summer Time (CEST).
• First round of notification emails will be sent out in August 2026. All applicants will be notified by December 2026.  

Online application instructions:

• The application form must be completed online, while you are logged into your Submittable account. You can create a free Submittable account using your own or your company’s shared email address. 
• We will communicate with you about your application by email, via the address you used to create the account. Please maintain this email address active and be sure to safelist notification emails from Submittable. 
• You can save a draft of your work and complete it before June 16, 2026.
• If you need to revise the information after you have submitted the application but before the June 16, 2026 deadline, please request to edit the submission. This request may take up to 2 business days to be granted. 
• If you filled out the wrong application form, you can withdraw your submission and resubmit.
• Submittable works best on Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Please make sure you are using an updated version of a supported browser.
• You may download a PDF version of your submission after the deadline has passed. 
• We highly recommend that you submit the application before June 16, 2026 to avoid last-minute technical difficulties.  

The Science & Technology Pioneer Award Applicant Guide provides the questions from the 2027 Science & Technology Pioneer Award application form, along with explanations and examples.

The Science & Technology Pioneer Award recognizes women impact entrepreneurs at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation. This award highlights disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances that require heavy research and development (R&D), a long commercialization cycle, high capital intensity, technology risk, and complexity.

Please review “Who should apply?” section of our website to ensure you meet all the eligibility criteria. You can also reference our Selection Criteria and Scoring Rubric to guide your answers. We strongly recommend that you first write your answers in a separate document, then transfer them into the online form. 

The Cartier Women's Initiative team, its partners and the jury will treat all business information submitted with utmost confidentiality. Aside from a brief summary (business name, brief description, field of industry) of the businesses selected, no individually identifiable information will be made available to the public without the prior authorization of the applicant.  

If your business is shortlisted, you will be asked to provide additional supporting documentation. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of applications we are unable to provide individual feedback to non-finalists.

NOTE: We accept only one application per business per year. Businesses that submit applications to multiple award categories or applications from multiple founders will be disqualified. Please refer to the FAQ to choose the best category for your business.

APPLICATION DATES & INSTRUCTIONS

Key dates: 

• The online application form will be open from April 16 to June 16, 2026 at 2pm Central European Summer Time (CEST).
• First round of notification emails will be sent out in August 2026. All applicants will be notified by December 2026.  

Online application instructions:

• The application form must be completed online, while you are logged into your Submittable account. You can create a free Submittable account using your own or your company’s shared email address. 
• We will communicate with you about your application by email, via the address you used to create the account. Please maintain this email address active and be sure to safelist notification emails from Submittable. 
• You can save a draft of your work and complete it before June 16, 2026.
• If you need to revise the information after you have submitted the application but before the June 16, 2026 deadline, please request to edit the submission. This request may take up to 2 business days to be granted. 
• If you filled out the wrong application form, you can withdraw your submission and resubmit.
• Submittable works best on Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Please make sure you are using an updated version of a supported browser.
• You may download a PDF version of your submission after the deadline has passed. 
• We highly recommend that you submit the application before June 16, 2026 to avoid last-minute technical difficulties.