Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2027: The Queen Elizabeth Prize (QEPrize) is pleased to announce to the general public that celebrate a wide variety of engineering innovations across all sectors…[full details below]
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2027 (QEPrize) is now open for nominations, recognising engineers whose exceptional innovations have made a significant contribution to society. The prize celebrates groundbreaking engineering achievements across different sectors and highlights technologies that have the potential to address major challenges facing communities around the world. Engineers, researchers, organisations, and others involved in engineering innovation can consider putting forward eligible candidates whose work has demonstrated substantial real-world impact.
The QEPrize offers a £500,000 prize to a team of up to five engineers responsible for a bold and transformational engineering innovation. The award focuses on achievements that have moved beyond theoretical development to produce meaningful benefits for society, industry, or the wider world. By recognising the people behind major engineering breakthroughs, the prize helps bring international attention to innovations that have changed how people live, work, communicate, travel, produce goods, or address complex global challenges.
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is presented every two years and provides an international platform for engineers whose work has made an outstanding difference. If you know an engineer or team whose innovation meets the award’s criteria, you should review the official nomination requirements, eligibility conditions, assessment criteria, and nomination deadline before submitting a nomination. Candidates should be able to demonstrate the significance of their engineering contribution and the benefits their innovation has delivered or is capable of delivering.
SUMMARY:
- Grant Sponsor(s): Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation
- Grant to be taken at: UK
- Grant level: Professionals
- Grant Amount: £500,000 awarded to five engineers
- Subject Eligibility: Engineering
- Nationality: All Nationalities
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering |Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, applicants are to meet the following criteria:
- Applicants must be engineers who have brought innovation to the engineering profession. The innovation must have a global impact.
- Applicants must be able to show how their innovations has solved the challenges of the society globally.
- Applicants who are successful must be willing to act as ambassadors of the Engineering Prize.
Application Procedure
How-to-Nominate: Full nominations should be made by completing their nominations at the nomination portal. Applicants will be asked to explain how the nominated innovation meets the judging criteria, identify the engineer or engineers responsible for the innovation, and provide two referees who are sufficiently knowledgeable to support the nomination.
If you have limited information on an innovation but believe it to be ground-breaking and to have already displayed significant benefit to humanity, please provide as much information as you can. The information will be used to make further enquiries as to the suitability of the suggestion and, where appropriate, to prepare a full nomination.
Application Deadline: 15th July