Our partnerships
We are stronger together. Through strategic partnerships with organisations that share a commitment to ensuring a safe and just future for all, we can drive lasting and effective change.
Why partner with us?
We work with our partners to provide skills-based volunteer and learning opportunities for their staff in addition to building robust talent pipelines, enabling them to demonstrate their commitment to global responsibility.
You may choose to do this by sponsoring our flagship Engineering for People Design Challenge, which brings to life real-world design challenges in a safe environment, through a project-based learning approach. You could support our Systems Change Lab, an initiative uniting changemakers from across the engineering system to create tangible outcomes that will help shape a more globally responsible future for the profession. Or you may want the opportunity to inspire the next generation of engineers through a professional to student mentoring opportunity.
Want to learn more?
Why not get in touch to discuss what existing or bespoke partnership opportunities could enhance your organisation’s commitment to global responsibility. Simply email us at [email protected].
Our partners
Anglo American Foundation
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.
City St. George's, University of London
We are working with City St George’s, University of 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.
Efficiency for Access Coalition
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.
TEDI-London
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.
Publitek
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.
Ramboll
Through their Flourish programme, Ramboll are providing facilitation support to the 2025 edition of the Systems Change Lab. Their staff are also involved in reviewing and judging student design submissions as part of the Engineering for People Design Challenge.
RS Group
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 Frank Jackson Foundation
Since 2025, we have been working with The Frank Jackson Foundation to help deliver the Engineering for People Design Challenge to universities in South Africa.
Royal Academy of Engineering
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 developed the Reimagined Degree Map, a visual tool to support universities implement the principles of global responsibility within degree courses.
Jacobs
Until 2024
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 were also able to run our month-long design challenge, Reshaping Engineering.
Spirax Group
Until 2024
Spirax Group’s support enabled Engineers Without Borders UK to deliver against our mission to radically transform the culture of engineering, providing Spirax Group’s staff, skills based volunteer opportunities including reviewing and judging for the Engineering for People Design Challenge.
Our collaborators
Constructivist
We are supporting Constructivist to deliver the Regenerative Design Lab, a six-month accelerator programme for leading engineering and construction industry professionals to support each other to apply regenerative principles in practice.
Engineering Professors Council
We work with the Engineering Professors Council as part of a working group to create ethical case studies for use in engineering.
Forage
We partnered with Forage, a virtual work experience platform to deliver a free course exploring global responsibility through four creative modules.
The Anti-Greenwash Charter
We are a partner of The Anti-Greenwash Charter, who are combatting greenwashing by setting clear, enforceable standards for sustainability claims and providing tools and resources for companies to improve their practices.
CrowdSolve
CrowdSolve is a collaboration platform focussed on finding solutions to important challenges facing people and planet. They provide a space for organisations and everyday people to come together, share ideas, and develop them into impactful solutions.
First Hand
Engineers Without Borders UK is excited to partner with First Hand, an events-based climate learning platform that connects ideas, people and organisations.
Research and Development Without Borders Cameroon
We work to support Research and Development Without Borders Cameroon to lead the development of the Engineering for People Design Challenge within universities in Cameroon.
