It will award £150m over the next five years to 50 of the best ideas and technologies essential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and for adapting to the impacts of climate change.
RAEng said the Green Future Fellowships will provide engineers, innovators, scientists, and researchers with the funding, capacity and tailored support to transform their ideas and existing initiatives into engineering solutions.
At least 50 fellows (ten a year for five years) will receive up to £3m each to develop and scale their ideas for up to a decade.
In a statement, Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “The climate and sustainability crisis is the challenge of our generation, requiring era-defining solutions to be developed and deployed at scale and with urgency.
“The Green Future Fellowships programme provides a new opportunity to do just that, providing the flexible, long-term support required to accelerate scalable and commercially viable climate innovations at all stages of development.”
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In a new survey of 2,000 adults conducted by Opinium on behalf of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 64 per cent of respondents said that more needs to be done to scale existing solutions to the climate crisis. It found that 7 in 10 people surveyed believe that engineers are essential for developing solutions that will help humankind adapt to living with the effects of climate change and preventing greenhouse gas emissions. Almost two thirds (63 per cent) said that the UK needs more people to become engineers to tackle the climate crisis.
Three areas where the public believe the biggest impact can be made are the generation of a constant supply of electricity without burning fossil fuels; recycling and reusing metals and plastics more efficiently so that less energy is needed, and recovering and using energy that would otherwise be wasted, such as waste heat from industrial processes.
The government financed Green Future Fellowships will fund new ideas and existing initiatives from a diverse range of people regardless of their background or career stage. Applicants can come from any country, but they must locate their work in the UK and deliver impact that benefits the UK, alongside any global impact.
Applications for the 2024 cohort close on 5 November 2024. For more information, and to apply, visit: raeng.org.uk/green-future-fellowships
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