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.
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.
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.
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Our patron, His Majesty King Charles III
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
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Diversity and inclusion
At the Academy, we put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our strategy.
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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