Our strategy
Our 2020-2025 strategy is Engineering for a sustainable society and inclusive economy.
Our impact
We are growing talent, developing skills for the future, driving innovation, building global partnerships, influencing policy and engaging the public.
Our Fellowship
The Academy's Fellowship represents the nation’s best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business and industry leaders.
Our Awardees
The Awardee Excellence Community brings together Academy awardees from all career stages and disciplines to share their expertise, collaborate, and contribute new perspectives to the Academy’s work.
About us
In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age. By 2025 we will have helped to build a sustainable society and inclusive economy.
Video transcript
If you look at our world today, the challenges are just so clear for us all to see. Climate change. It’s an existential issue and it’s going to need engineers to come up with solutions. Engineering has a really crucial role to play in helping us to deliver jobs and opportunities. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, the Royal Academy of Engineering harnesses the power of engineering to help build a sustainable global society and create an inclusive economy that works for everyone. What does the Academy do for you? My research is in the development of batteries. Finding ways of storing energy that is intrinsically low carbon is really important. The research that I’m doing is completely underpinned by the support of the Academy. We support talented engineers, like Paul, at every career stage and work with teachers, researchers and employers to make the profession more resilient, diverse and prepared for the future. Engineering in the UK really still has a serious diversity deficit. Better engineering solutions will come from having a diverse group of people working together. The Graduate Engineering Engagement Programme helps graduates from under-represented backgrounds into the engineering industry. It was incredibly beneficial to my career. What is the Academys Enterprise Hub The Academy backs the people behind innovative businesses through our Enterprise Hub. NitroPep creates surfaces which self-clean. So they kill bacteria, they kill viruses, they kill fungi and it protects people from surface contamination. Having a mentor who is a really experienced business person was absolutely invaluable. It’s a great privilege being a mentor and it’s a responsibility. And becoming a Fellow, this is made very clear. Our global entrepreneurship programmes train innovators worldwide to commercialise their work. And we bring together the world’s best engineers, in collaboration with other professions, to form international partnerships addressing some of the planet’s biggest challenges. The National Engineering Policy Centre. We engage policymakers to ensure government has the best engineering advice. Our National Engineering Policy Centre provides independent guidance, drawing on the expertise of more than 450,000 engineers. The Academy has been extremely helpful in areas of energy, in particular looking at hydrogen. The Academy has a wide systems view of the whole of hydrogen, from its generation, production, distribution and the like, and by providing us with that understanding we can see the bigger picture. This is Engineering. We also engage the public. Our This Is Engineering campaign opens the eyes of millions to the wonders of engineering, challenging preconceptions and showing how engineers make a difference. I see extraordinary talent and passion in the engineering community. I’m enormously optimistic about the future.
Who we are
At the Royal Academy of Engineering we have a responsibility to provide leadership for engineering and technology and technical leadership for wider society. Under the patronage of His Majesty King Charles III, we are a:
Charity
We deliver public benefit from engineering excellence and technology innovation.
National academy
We provide progressive leadership for engineering and technology, and independent expert advice to government, in the UK and beyond.
Fellowship
We bring together an unrivalled community of leading business people, entrepreneurs, innovators and academics from every part of engineering and technology.
Our values
- Progressive leadership: embodying the courage, commitment and ambition to drive positive change for engineering and society.
- Diversity and inclusion: creating cultures in which everyone can thrive and diverse perspectives enrich our collective performance.
- Excellence everywhere: bringing evidence, expertise, integrity and a passion for continuous improvement to everything we do.
- Collaboration first: prioritising collaboration and building partnerships to improve outcomes.
- Creativity and innovation: solving problems and generating opportunities through creative thinking and innovation.
How we work
Diversity and inclusion
At the Academy, we put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our strategy.
Policies and publications
Our policies
Read the Academy's operating policies and policies for grant applicants and awardees.
Academy publications
Browse our annual reports, strategy documents and corporate publications here