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Babcock unveiled as headline partner for The Engineer’s 2024 Collaborate To Innovate Awards

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Engineering giant Babcock International Group has been announced as The Headline sponsor of The Engineer magazine’s ninth annual Collaborate to Innovate awards.

Open for entries until Friday 11th October, Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) was launched to uncover and celebrate great examples of engineering collaboration - a dynamic critical to addressing many of the challenges and problems faced by society.

Commenting on Babcock’s support for this year’s competition, Global Engineering Capability Director Neil Young said: “Babcock is honoured to support the C2I awards once again. The inspiring projects and creative solutions these teams collaborate on to deliver align to our values and the way we work with our clients globally. We wish all the teams entered in this year’s competition good luck.”

The C2I awards is open to innovative technology led projects which are underpinned by collaboration between two or more separate organisations and which have had, or are likely to have, a positive impact in their area of application.

CLICK HERE TO START YOUR ENTRY FOR THIS YEAR'S AWARDS

Entries are invited from projects addressing challenges across ten categories, including automotive; aerospace, defence and security; information, data and connectivity; healthcare and medical; energy and environment; and manufacturing technology.

Commenting on this year’s awards, The Engineer’s editor Jon Excell said: “Collaboration is critical to solving some of the biggest challenges we face and the C2I awards was set up to celebrate this. Myself and the C2I judging panel are really excited about seeing what fascinating projects and innovations this year’s competition uncovers.”

Entries will be judged by a panel of industry leaders including Neil Young - Babcock International; Professor Danielle George – University of Manchester; Professor Sir Iain Gray – Cranfield University;  Gareth D Jones – BAE Systems; Abbie Hutty - iSpace Europe, Dr Andy Lawrence – EPSRC and Rebecca Everitt – Engineering UK.

Alongside Babcock other sponsors and supporters include:  Lucideon, Med-Tech, Schneider Electric, Engineering UK and EPSRC.

The closing date for entries is midnight on Friday 11th October and the winners will be revealed at a drinks reception on the evening of Thursday 27th February at One Great George Street, London.

Click here to find out more: https://awards.theengineer.co.uk/

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