Join us in celebrating National Engineering Day

Help us celebrate #NationalEngineeringDay on 13 November by sharing your #EngineeringRoleModels! We'd love for you to record a short video (under 30 seconds) answering: "Who is the engineer that inspires you?"

How to Participate:

Option 1: Record your video on your phone (portrait), post on social media on 13 November, and tag us!

Option 2: Send your video via Instagram DM @ThisisEngineering, or WeTransfer to [email protected] for us to share.

Sample Intro:

“Today on National Engineering Day, I’d like to shout out the engineer who inspires me: [xxx].”

Suggested Caption: "My engineering role model is [insert name and title]. Their [insert achievement] inspires me. #EngineeringRoleModels #NationalEngineeringDay @ThisisEng @RAEngNews"

Please wait to post until 13 November. For resources, social media assets, and the full toolkit, see here.

Tag Us & Use Hashtags:

Instagram & TikTok: @ThisisEngineering

X (Twitter): @ThisisEng @RAEngNews @RAEng_Hub

Facebook: thisisengineering1

LinkedIn: Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub

Thank you for celebrating with us!

The Wales Hub is relocating.

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The Enterprise Hub Wales has a new home in the iconic Palace Theatre building in Swansea, run by Tramshed Tech.

This is a great collaborative space to welcome hub members and our wider community.? It will also provide a great base from which to build on our role nurturing the Welsh engineering and tech ecosystem.

Come and find us here>>

For an overview of the space, have a look at the brochure>> Swansea Tramshed Brochure.

Programmes??

Shott Scale Up Accelerator- Applications closing soon!

Are you looking to make the transition from tech specialist to business leader?

Applications are now open to join our accelerator, empowering senior leaders with the insights and leadership skills needed to scale successfully.

Apply now??

We’re running two info sessions before the application window closes—a perfect chance to meet the program team, learn about the Shott Scale Up Accelerator’s benefits, and get your questions answered.

Join previous awardee, Ed Nutting on 13 November to discover how this program can support you in scaling your ideas and tackling growth challenges.

Book your seat ??

The MacRobert Award

The MacRobert Award, the UK’s longest running and most prestigious prize for engineering innovation, is now open for nominations.?

If you have an outstanding innovation which has demonstrated commercial success and societal benefit, we want to hear from you!

A number of Enterprise Hub members have been successfully shortlisted for the prize with nPlan and Paragraf being named finalists in 2023. Are you next???

The winner receives ￡50,000, a gold medal and widespread national publicity.??

Deadline for submissions is 5pm, 31 January 2025. Submit your nomination ??

To discuss putting forward a nomination, please email MacRobert Award manager Patrick Woodcock or call 02077 660 630.

Building World Class Teams Workshops

Culture+ is our EDI platform built to support tech and engineering leaders starting and growing a company to develop inclusively and sustainably.

The team are running a series of workshops on building out and developing teams at Start Ups and Scale Ups:

Scaling Up Without Going Wrong

Focus: Preparing for growth while minimising risk, prioritizing inclusive culture, and demonstrating resilience to investors.

??? Date: Thursday, 14 November, 4:00pm

Register now ??

Hub Members in the news ??

Funding and deals ??

• ?? We’re proud to share that Hub Member Pawan Shrestha and his company AllFocal Optics (formerly Lark Optics) have raised $5.3 million to bring its revolutionary AR/VR lens technology to market.
• ?? A huge congratulations to Hub Member company, Amodo Design, on becoming an Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) Activation Partner. This partnership focuses on bridging a key gap in the UK’s R&D landscape by fostering closer collaboration between design engineers and scientists.
• ??Big congratualtions to Hub Member company Nu Quantum who announced a collaboration with CERN to adopt its White Rabbit timing technology, to enable datacenter-scale quantum computing networks.