National Engineering Day 2026
National Engineering Day is a day that aims to make the UK’s engineers and engineering more visible, and celebrate how they improve everyday lives and shape the world around us.
Now Hiring: The Engineers of 2076 celebrates the Academy's 50th anniversary not by looking back, but by looking fifty years ahead and considerably further up.
What will life look like on Earth, and in space, in 2076? What engineering and engineers will be needed to make that life possible? As well as aerospace specialists, they'll be structural engineers, nuclear engineers, biomedical engineers. They'll be the people who will make sure that life on another planet, as well as on Earth, doesn't just survive, it thrives.
And we need to be recruiting them now.
We are launching a formal recruitment campaign for engineering jobs that don't exist yet. We are imagining the engineering careers that will build all aspects of our lives - from the homes we live in and the food we eat, to the games we play, and more - in 2076.
Save the date: Wednesday 4 November 2026.
Watch the video briefing below for a full breakdown of what National Engineering Day is all about and how you can get involved for 2026.
How can you get involved?
- Donate a day of out-of-home and newspaper advertising space
If you have digital screens, outdoor space or advertising inventory we would love to run our Engineers of 2076 recruitment ads there on 4 November just for one day. Get in touch with us via email to find out more. - Create your own 2076 space-age engineering job ad
In September, we'll release a job ad template that you can customise to create your own New Space Age engineering role and share on social media or in print. Imagine a role that doesn't exist yet and pair it with a real engineering job that exists today. What new skills might engineers need in the New Space Age? Or, looking back at Earth, what engineering roles might your organisation be recruiting for in 2076, and what would the job description include? Share your ideas and join the conversation on social media. - Share our recruitment ads on social media
On National Engineering Day, share the Now hiring: Engineers of 2076 job ads across your channels - website, social, newsletter and screens within your workplace. - Bring Mars, Space and the Moon to life for your audiences
Use your platforms, your expertise and your storytelling to help people imagine life beyond Earth in 2076.
A short film, a social series, an expert Q&A - anything that makes the future feel real and the engineering careers that will build it feel possible. - Host a live activation
Do you have an event or other activities planned in the first week of November?
From town hall to team meeting, coding club to ‘lunch and learn’, why not theme it that week around how the recruitment campaign of 2076.
Animated GIF Stickers
A series of animated GIFs available via GIPHY to be used on Instagram stories, TikTok, or other social media platforms.
Use the search bar inside the in app sticker/GIF library to search: ‘National Engineering Day’, ‘RAEng’ or ‘NED’
Browse the full collection our GIPHY account.
Free resources
This is Engineering also reaches young people through classrooms, supporting the curriculum with inspiring case studies and hands on activities. The This is Engineering resources explore the essential role that engineers play in our lives.
Visit our programmes for schools page.
