This scholarship is provided by the De Beers Group, a company that has been active in Canada’s diamond industry for 50 years. The amount offered to students for winning this scholarship is $4,800.

The De Beer Group is partnering with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the HeForShe initiative to help more talented Canadian women fund their education in STEM. Their goal is to increase the number of women who complete higher education in the near future.

As you can see from its name, the first thing you need to qualify for this scholarship is to identify as a woman. All applicants also need to be studying their first year of an undergraduate program from an institute that has been officially authorized in Canada. The final requirement is that all applicants need to be studying in a program related to STEM.