Lucideon unveiled as aerospace and defence sponsor for The Engineer's 2024 Collaborate to Innovate awards

We're delighted to announce that specialist development and commercialisation organisation Lucideon is sponsoring the Aerospace & Defence category of The Engineer's 2024 Collaborate To Innovate Awards.  

Commenting on Lucideon's support for this year's competition Enya Collier, product marketing manager for aerospace and nuclear said: "Partnering with The Engineer on the C2i awards is a natural fit for Lucideon, demonstrating how technological development and innovation is at the core of our business. In a world demanding material solutions for complex challenges requiring ever higher performance in ever harsher environments, we’re committed to helping the Aerospace and Defence sectors to bridge the gap between academia and industry and accelerate the commercialisation of innovative products."

Working from facilities in both the UK and US Lucideon is a development and commercialisation organisation (DCO), specialising in materials technologies, processes, and testing across a range of sectors.

The Engineer’s editor Jon Excell added: “It's great to have Lucideon on-board as the sponsor of this important category, which celebrates a wide range of projects at the forefront of this exciting and fast-moving sector."

Now in it's ninth year, the C2I awards was established to celebrate collaborative and innovative technology led projects across all of the key industrial sectors.  

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

The winners of this year's competition, which is now closed for entries, will be revealed at a drinks reception on the evening of Thursday 27^th February at One Great George Street, London.