Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2027 (£500,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 26, 2026

Applications are open for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering 2027. The prize is the world’s most prestigious engineering accolade, awarded to as much as 10 engineers accountable for a daring, groundbreaking engineering innovation of world profit to humanity.

Since 2013 they’ve honoured 42 eminent engineers whose improvements have affected billions of lives. Again, this 12 months, they’re looking for a various vary of nominations that actually epitomise excellence in engineering.

Previous profitable improvements embody the Internet and the World Wide Web, (2013), managed drug supply (2015), digital imaging sensors (2017), the Global Positioning System (2019), LED lighting (2021), sintered Nd-Fe-B everlasting magnet (2022), PERC photo voltaic expertise (2023), wind turbine expertise (2024), machine studying (2025) and fashionable neural interfaces (2026).

Prize

The winners might be awarded:

• a complete money prize of £500,000 (5 hundred thousand GBP); and
• acceptable memorabilia to be determined by the Trustees of their sole discretion. In the occasion that the Prize is acquired by multiple particular person (however no more than 5 people, as above) collaborating underneath a single nomination, the Prize cash might be shared between the winners as decided by the Trustees of their sole discretion on the recommendation of the Judging Panel.

Eligibility

• The QEPrize is worldwide and open to any nationality. Nominations and recommendations are welcomed from internationally.
• The solely limitations are that self-nomination and posthumous nomination should not allowed.

Criteria

The judges will use these standards to pick out the winner, or winners, of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering:

• What is it that this individual has achieved (or as much as ten folks have achieved) that could be a floor-breaking innovation in engineering?
• In what manner has this innovation been of world profit to humanity?
• Is there anybody else who may declare to have had a pivotal position on this growth?

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.