Our mission is to advance engineering’s contribution to a safer, healthier, more prosperous world, tackling the global challenges of our time.
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Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF)
The Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) programme supports talented entrepreneurs from around the globe to turn their engineering innovation into impactful, sustainable businesses.
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Frontiers
Frontiers connects and empowers enthusiastic researchers, innovators and practitioners from the UK and around the world to work together on new ways to solve complex global challenges. By stimulating…
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Africa Catalyst
Africa Catalyst aims to strengthen professional engineering bodies in sub-Saharan Africa so that they can effectively promote the profession, share best practice and increase local engineering capacity, to help drive development.
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Higher Education Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa
HEP SSA aims to ensure that the higher education system in sub-Saharan Africa produces engineers with the skills and knowledge required to meet the needs of industry, tackle local challenges, and address the engineering skills shortage in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Distinguished International Associates
Empowering excellent diverse international engineers with research and innovation links to the UK to advance the Academy's key priorities of sustainable societies and inclusive economies.
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Global Talent Visa
The Global Talent visa is a UK immigration category for talented and promising individuals in specific sectors wishing to work in the UK. It replaced the Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa in February…