2025 PICTT DELT-Her Programme | Scholarship Updates

2025 PICTT DELT-Her Programme-By attracting and fostering creative engineering concepts that will eventually be mentored and transformed into startup businesses, the Developing Engineering Leaders Through Her (DELT-Her) project aims to expand possibilities for women in engineering. The initiative’s first phase’s success stories are expected to inspire school-age females nationwide to pursue engineering as a lifetime career, with the goal of bringing about a paradigm shift in support of this decision. DELT-Her draws inspiration from international initiatives such as the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia, Girl Up! at the UN Foundation, and the Anita Borg Institute.

Advantages

The following are the initiative’s main goals:

to support the creative ideas of young, female engineers in order to eliminate the gender gap that currently exists in Nigerian engineering and technology education and practice.

to promote a more varied and inclusive environment for engineering practice in Nigeria.
to establish a cooperative network of interested parties, comprising leaders from business, industry, and postsecondary schools, in order to facilitate a more encouraging atmosphere for women in engineering.
to increase the visibility of female engineering success stories in order to motivate Nigeria’s upcoming female engineering generation.

Conditions

Female Nigerians with at least a first degree and creative engineering concepts will be the main applicants.
The program focuses on young women between the ages of 23 and 45 who have created a proposal for novel technical concepts and assembled a team to carry them out. To be eligible for funding under this program, each team must have at least 60% female players.