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The MacRobert Award

The MacRobert Award is the premier award for UK engineering innovation.

Nominations for the 2024 award are now open, until 5pm, Wednesday 31 January, 2024.

Submit your 2024 nomination

Meet our 2023 finalists below.

The UK's premier prize for engineering innovation

The MacRobert Award is the UK's longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation.

The presentation of the Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success.

Originally founded by the MacRobert Trust, the Award is now presented and run by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with support from the Worshipful Company of Engineers.

Each year the winning team receives a gold medal, widespread publicity ,a £50,000 prize and an exclusive weekend away at Douneside House . 

Find out more about the MacRobert Award

Submit your 2024 MacRobert Award nomination

MacRobert Award medal

2023 winner and finalists

The 2023 MacRobert Award winner is:

  • Ceres Power for its pioneering clean energy technology, including fuel cells for power generation and electrolysers for green hydrogen. 

The 2023 MacRobert Award finalists were:

  • nPlan whose machine-learning technology accurately forecasts how long every element of a construction project is likely to take and represents the most dramatic step forward in decades for forecasting and de-risking large-scale construction and infrastructure projects.

  • Paragraf for producing the first real commercial use of graphene in electronic devices, rather than as a structural additive in composites.

Meet the winner and finalists

The Ceres Power Team with Academy President Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE (left) and HRH The Princess Royal (third from right). Image credit: Jason Alden

The Ceres Power Team with Academy President Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE (left) and HRH The Princess Royal (third from right). Image credit: Jason Alden

Meet Ceres Power, this year's MacRobert Award winner

 

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JCB electric digger being operated indoors, next to two people reading and unaware of its presence

2020 winner: world's first electric digger, from JCB

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