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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch clean up Thinking

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch highlights the ugly and damaging fallout of our relationship with plastic and acts as a vast physical testimony to our collective environmental short-sightedness.

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Judging the Engineering for People Design Challenge News

Sylvia Laws, from Publitek, reflects on her experiences judging finalists at the 2019 Grand Finals.

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All female team win Engineering for People Design Challenge News

This year’s grand prize has been won by an innovative design for a women’s community hub built of locally sourced, natural and affordable materials.

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Global Grand Challenges Summit: ticket giveaway News

We’ve launched a survey to learn as much as we can about the incredible individuals that make up our community, because we want to maximise the potential of our growing movement.

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Support from volunteer strengthens TONIBUNG team News

Volunteer Miriam reflects on the first few months of her placement supporting remote rural communities with power generation in Malaysia.

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Research looks into global responsibility in engineering News

A new joint-venture of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UCL and Engineers Without Borders UK aims to understand whether and how global responsibility impacts on decisions in the engineering profession.

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Inspired volunteers share their experience News

Fourteen volunteers talked to us about their experiences of working on our international projects.

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Celebration of engineering held at Westminster Abbey News

Representatives from across the engineering profession, engineering charities and government gathered at Westminster Abbey yesterday to honour great engineers past and present, as part of celebrations for the Year of Engineering.

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Recalibrating to achieve our goals News

Humanity is currently facing some of the greatest challenges we’ve ever known: climate change, ecosystem failure, resource depletion, population growth and increasing inequality. This means we have to find new ways to engineer – for people and the planet.

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