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Looking to scale and internationalise your innovation? Applications for Advance 2025 are now open for engineering innovators from around the world, working towards this year’s theme of ‘Future Planet: Biodiversity, Food Security, New Materials and Energy’. Offering a bespoke programme of relationship-building and business growth activities, Advance enhances the technical and soft skills required to rapidly scale an impactful innovation. This is a joint venture between the Leaders in Innovation Fellowships programme, and the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The six-month programme offers: - Tailored, 1:1 training and mentoring from experts (including in-person training in the UK) - Opportunities to pitch to, and network with, actors from the UK’s innovation ecosystem - Access to our 1,400+ alumni community of #InnovationLeaders - Eligibility for the UK’s Global Talent Visa We take no equity, fee or IP from the innovators that we work with. We actively encourage applications from all under-represented backgrounds and demographics. To find out more about the programme, or to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/gt4fh46f

A high-level group of hydrogen experts in a workshop convened by The Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering has proposed that the UK government should commit to a comprehensive roadmap for the hydrogen industry. A new report summarising the workshop - Towards A Green Hydrogen Roadmap For The UK - aims to help policymakers ensure that green hydrogen can fulfil its potentially crucial role in a future low-carbon energy system. Green hydrogen is likely to be particularly critical for industries that are challenging to decarbonise with electricity, such as steel, chemicals and long-haul transport. Nigel Brandon FREng FRS, Chair of the Steering Group for the report, said: “In partnership with low carbon electricity, low-carbon hydrogen is a vital decarbonisation option for key sectors of the economy in the push to achieve a net zero energy system. Engineering a greener future and a successful hydrogen economy cannot be done in isolation and must consider the UK’s wider economic and infrastructure landscape. A comprehensive roadmap and the development of hydrogen investment zones will enable investment to be better allocated across regional and national infrastructure, boost research and development in key technologies and address ongoing challenges, such as skills provision. “There have been many first-mover opportunities for countries leading the development of hydrogen technologies and standards. The UK must now create a vision for where it sees itself in the global hydrogen economy and develop the policy environment needed for UK industry and innovation to flourish.” The green hydrogen workshop, held earlier this year, comprised experts from academia, industry and government and identified the critical enablers, barriers, dependencies and opportunities for growing the nascent UK hydrogen sector. Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/eyMBvvKX

Are you interested in safety within engineering? To help shape new priorities for our Engineering X Skills for Safety programme, we are launching a survey to: - Identify potential collaborators - Understand safety challenges and skills gaps - Highlight best practices and technologies. We're looking to hear from representatives from industry, academia, policy, professional bodies, advocacy groups and other stakeholders, from anywhere in the world, working on or with an interest in safety within engineering.  Complete the survey at: https://lnkd.in/es_jp3Dh Respond by 18 September. Engineering X is a collaboration between the Academy and Lloyd's Register Foundation. #EngineeringX

The Trustee Board, Fellows and staff of the Royal Academy of Engineering are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mike Lynch OBE DL FREng FRS, and send our profound condolences to his family. Mike became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 and we have fond memories of the active role he played in the past, as a mentor, donor and former Council member. He was also one of the inaugural members on the Enterprise Committee. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time.

Join us on 5 September as we discuss how to decarbonise our energy system equitably, effectively and democratically. We're delighted to be joined by panellists: - Patrick Devine-Wright - Laura Watts - Nick Winser CBE FREng who will be sharing their perspectives and answering questions from our live audience and other stakeholder groups. Register now to join us online at the link below.

Time is running out to apply to our Research Fellowships scheme. The scheme provides up to £625,000 in funding with five years of support to help establish academics’ independence and international reputation. Other benefits include mentoring from an Academy Fellow, a reduction of teaching and administrative duties to dedicate time to research and also networking opportunities with other Research Fellows and Academy Fellows. Applications are open to early-career researchers from anywhere in the world, who are or will be based at a UK higher education institution. Apply now: https://lnkd.in/emKqYJGk [Image text: Research Fellowships Providing five years if support to establish early career researchers' independence and international reputation raeng.org.uk #RAEngResearch Deadline:18 September]

We are delighted to announce seven new Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships for 2024/2025. This year's fellowships will support outstanding researchers working on a wide variety of engineering challenges, ranging from the use of 3D bioprinting to repair damaged skeletal muscle tissue to improving the resilience of road networks to flooding. Professor Anne Trefethen FREng, Chair of the RAEng / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships panel said: “This year’s awardees amply demonstrate just how wide-ranging and potentially impactful UK engineering research is. I am pleased that with the continued support of the Leverhulme Trust we are able to help more talented individuals and whose research projects I hope will deliver substantial benefits to society here and elsewhere in the world." Congratulations to this year's awardees. Find out more about our new awardees and their research: https://lnkd.in/egjApq5c

Would you ever consider sharing personal data from your smartwatch with a clinician? Navigating the complexities of data privacy whilst developing better personalised medicine will be one of the challenges faced by our evolving healthcare system. Find out more by catching up on our latest #InnovationIncoming event which explored how technological advancements might transform healthcare: https://lnkd.in/eXuvXBZ9

Looking to take your research career to the next level? There are only a few weeks left to apply for our Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships. The scheme strengthens the links between industry and academia, supporting exceptional academics in UK universities to undertake research to meet the needs of industrial sponsors. Successful applicants will benefit from: ✅ Five years' funding to undertake use-inspired research ✅ Mentoring from an Academy Fellow ✅ Training, events and additional funding opportunities ✅ Reduced teaching and administrative duties to dedicate time to research ✅ Networking with other awardees and Academy Fellows Applications are open to senior academics, with a permanent academic position or an unconditional offer for such, who are or will be based at a UK higher education institution. Apply by 12 September, 4pm: https://raeng.org.uk/rcsrf

The A level results are out again and there seem to be some remarkable increases in STEM subjects. Participation in Maths A level has risen to 107,500. A whopping 11% year-on-year increase. Women represent around 37%, which is fairly consistent with last year’s cohort. The makes maths by far the most popular A level, accounting for pretty much one in ten exam entries. _ Physics has also seen a very respectable 12.5 increase in students to 43,000, with women breaking past the 10,000 mark for the first time since as far as I can see from the JCQ data – which is a great result! But their representation in the cohort is still stubbornly sitting at around 23%. _ Computing is also on the up. An 11% rise from 18,000 last year to 20,000 this year. And representation of women is also up from 15% to17.5% this year - which is again to be celebrated! Sadly Design and Technology had a very small decrease to 10,500 students. But given its relative importance in influencing young people’s progression towards engineering in higher education, the decline of the subject in schools is still a cause for concern. _ Other STEM subjects seem to be holding fairly steady. Biology remains at 74,000 entries, Chemistry at 62,000 but further maths has seen a 20% increase (albeit from low base) from 15,000 to 18,000. _ More generally, There’s been some concern in the press (Guardian newspaper yesterday) that humanities subjects are losing out to STEM subjects and that may be the case over the longer term, but for this year humanities subjects also seem to be holding steady, and the number of students seem to be pretty similar to last year so any increases or decreases don’t seem to be a function of demographics. I’ll put out a separate post on T levels and other qualifications shortly. #Alevels #ResultsDay #Results #STEM #Mathematics #DesignTechnology #Chemistry #Biology #Physics #Computing #engineering @RAEngNews