CWM sponsors a number of events and activities with the aim of encouraging women in mathematics, with priority given to developing or emerging countries. Our main focus has been aimed at establishing or supporting networks at the continental or regional level. Other events, workshops and projects have also been supported.
Associations in individual countries with a regional impact have also been sponsored.
In 2025, CWM call received 61 applications, of which 13 will be supported. Some of the selected projects aim to support continental and regional networks for women in mathematics, such as activities led by the African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA), the Meeting of Women in Mathematics in Central Africa in Congo, and the establishment of the Arab Women in Mathematics Network. CWM is also supporting research workshops aimed at establishing research networks for women in Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria. Additionally, CWM is supporting networking activities for women in mathematics in Argentina, India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, as well as a math camp for young women in Iran. Depending on the nature of the project, CWM funding is directed toward infrastructure, travel expenses, and accommodation support for women participants from developing countries.
In 2024, CWM call received 39 applications, of which CWM decided to support 10. Some of the selected projects aim at supporting continental networks for women in mathematics, such as the Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) Workshop in New Zealand and the series of activities organised by the Gender and Diversity Commission of UMALCA (CGD-Umalca) within the Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Mathematics. CWM is supporting networking and visibility activities for women in mathematics in Brazil, India, Malawi, Mexico, Namibia and Senegal, and two research workshops geared towards establishing research networks for women, in Burundi and Uganda. Depending on the nature of the project, CWM funding goes to infrastructure, travel expenses and accommodation support for women participants from developing countries.
In 2023, CWM call received 48 applications, of which CWM decided to support 11. Some of the selected projects aim at supporting continental networks for women in mathematics, such as the 1st meeting of the Asian and Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) in India, the 3rd Meeting for Latin American Women in Mathematics in Colombia, the 3rd Southeast Asian Women Mathematicians Meeting in Indonesia, and a network meeting organised by the Commission of African Women in Mathematics of the African Mathematical Union (AMU-CAWM) in Morocco. CWM is also supporting networking activities for women in mathematics in Cuba, India, Nepal and Nigeria, the global May 12 initiative, and two research workshops geared towards establishing research networks for women, in Uganda and Uruguay. Depending on the nature of the project, CWM funding goes to infrastructure, webpage’s creation and update, travel expenses and accommodation support for participants from developing countries.
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In 2022, CWM call received 31 applications of which CWM decided to support 10. CWM is supporting the creation of the website of the AOWM (Asian and Oceanian Women in Mathematics) platform and the update of the website of AWMA (African Women in Mathematics Association). Three regional meetings, the third Central Asian Women in Mathematics in Tadjikistan, the second Women in Sage in Africa meeting in Nigeria and the Latin American and Caribbean Workshop on Mathematics and Gender in Oaxaca (Mexico) are also selected. The other five supported proposals are national events to create networks in Gabon, Ghana, and Oman, Indian Women in Mathematics activities and the II Brazilian Meeting for Women in Mathematics. For a brief report, see here.
In 2021, CWM call received 23 applications of which CWM decided to support 6 projects. CWM is supporting AWMA’s proposal for a special day for women in mathematics at the Pan African Congress of Mathematicians PACOM 2021, a project of several regional women in mathematics associations organising jointly the May 12 initiative to upgrade the reporting mechanism of the website, as well as the second phase of the exhibition project, “МАТЕМАТИКА, through a land of mathematics,” to be premiered at (WM)² in Saint Petersburg and ICM 2022. The project proposed by Indian Women in Mathematics and two thematical mathematical activities in Latin America and Pakistan were also approved. For a brief report on these activities, see here.
In 2020, CWM call received 35 applications of which CWM decided to support 8 projects. Six of them are meetings taking place in Chile, Colombia, India, Senegal, Turkey and Vietnam. The May 12 th initiative website and an exhibition project, МАТЕМАТИКА, through a land of mathematics, for (WM)² in Saint Petersbourg are also supported. For a brief report on these activities, see here.
In 2019, CWM supported events in Cameroon, Argentina, Domicican Republic, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Tunisia. For a brief report on these activities, see here.
(WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics July 31, 2018, Riocentro convention center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a satellite event of the ICM 2018 organised and partially funded by CWM. See meeting-report here and book of abstracts here.
Events sponsored by the 2018 funding call will take place in Austria, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Italy (ICTP) Macedonia, Nigeria, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and a booklet project on women role models in Africa is being supported. For a brief report on these activities, see here.
Events sponsored by the 2017 funding call took place in Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Tunisia, South Africa and Vietnam. For a brief report on these activities, see here.
The 2016 events took place in Colombia (Latin America), India, Indonesia (S. and E. Asia), Kazakhstan (Central Asia), Mexico (Latin America), Senegal (West Africa), Tunisia (North Africa). For a brief report on these activities, see here. In 2015-16, similar activities were also funded in Kenya (Africa) and Brazil (Latin America).