Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2025 (£500,000 prize)

Deadline: June 8, 2024

Nominations are invited for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2025. The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) champions bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of global benefit to humanity.

The world’s leading award for engineers and engineering, the annual £500,000 prize promotes excellence in engineering and celebrates engineering’s visionaries. It inspires young minds to consider engineering as a career choice, and it encourages engineers to push the boundaries of what is possible.

Diverse, multifaceted, and continually evolving, engineering helps create solutions to global challenges and improves billions of lives. Engineers have enabled us to work together across the planet, explore the smallest cells and the most distant stars, and navigate our way through the world.

Prize

The winners will be awarded:

• a total cash prize of £500,000 (five hundred thousand GBP); and
• appropriate memorabilia to be decided by the Trustees in their sole discretion. In the event that the Prize is received by more than one individual (but not more than five individuals, as above) collaborating under a single nomination, the Prize money will be shared between the winners as determined by the Trustees in their sole discretion on the advice of the Judging Panel.

Eligibility

Entry to the Prize is open to:

• any living individual (or not more than ten living individuals working as a team);
• of any nationality;
• who is personally responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in engineering which has been of global benefit to humanity. Self-nomination is not permitted.
• The Trustees reserve the right to reject any nomination where, in their reasonable opinion, there is or is likely to be a conflict of interest between the nominees, nominators or any referees and any other nomination or the Prize more generally.

Nomination

• The closing date to submit your nomination(s) is 8 June 2024
• The deadline for referees to submit supporting statements is 9 August 2024

Click here to nominate

For more information, visit QEPrize.