Our partnerships

Anglo American Foundation are Engineers Without Borders UK’s longest serving supporter, having funded us since 2004. Thanks to Anglo American Foundation’s transformative support we have grown the Engineering for People Design Challenge to reach over 63,000 students, as well as launching the 2021 – 2030 strategy.

Bentley Systems supports the Engineering for People Design Challenge by providing staff time to volunteer as design reviewers, Grand Final judges, as well as sponsoring the challenge. Our partnership is one of many that Bentley Systems support globally including EWB Australia, EWB Ireland, and EWB USA.

We are working with City University London to co-create real-world educational resources and accelerate training of early-career academics and to strengthen research on socially responsible STEM technologies and solutions.

The Efficiency for Access Coalition partners with Engineers Without Borders UK to deliver the Efficiency for Access Design Challenge. This Challenge is a global, multidisciplinary competition that empowers teams of university students to help accelerate clean energy access.

Jacobs partnered with Engineers Without Borders UK to pilot our first professional development programme, the Advocate Programme. The programme aims to equip staff with the skills required to advocate for more sustainable outcomes in their jobs. Thanks to Jacobs support we are also able to run our month-long design challenge, Reshaping Engineering.

Publitek provides pro-bono PR and communications support to Engineers Without Borders UK assisting us in developing key messaging, ensuring that we maximise the reach of our message of global responsibility and supporting us to showcase the stories of those in our network.

RS Group Plc supports the Engineering for People Design Challenge as both a sponsor as well as providing skills based volunteer opportunities for their staff who deliver storytelling masterclasses to the finalists.

The Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineers Without Borders UK both recognise the urgent need to transform how we educate engineers to address the challenges of our age. Together, we are developing a visual tool to support universities to reimagine sustainability within degree courses.

Spirax Sarco’s support has enabled Engineers Without Borders UK to deliver against our mission to radically transform the culture of engineering, providing Spirax Sarco’s staff, skills based volunteer opportunities including reviewing and judging for the Engineering for People Design Challenge.

Our multi-year partnership with new higher education provider TEDI-London aims to build frameworks of key competencies required to produce globally responsible engineering, work together to develop a culture that drives for globally responsible engineering as the norm and look for opportunities to innovate and encourage collective action.