Innovation4All Award 2026

Tech4all, in co-operation with The Worshipful Company of Engineers, offers an award for the most creative engineering-based solutions for the alleviation of poverty

2026 winner announced – see details

Are you working on technology that could improve the lives of thousands of people?

About the Award

The award is intended to encourage engineers to use their skills and expertise to create solutions to alleviate the causes or consequences of underlying issues leading to people being disadvantaged in any way as a result of poverty or hardship.

The application process is accessible and straightforward, with evaluation and feedback from a panel with experience in the engineering, aid projects, and innovation management.

2026 competition now CLOSED for submissions

The Award

There is a cash award of £20,000 and the Judges may also award runners up substantial discretionary prizes.

Who is eligible?

Entrants can be independent, or part of a recognised body, but financial control processes must be present and openly reported.

The Brief

Entries will be judged against the following criteria:

 

  1. Does the proposed solution address the causes or consequences of underlying issues leading to people suffering poverty or hardship across a broad range of areas including, but not limited to:
    • Health,
    • Mobility,
    • Social exclusion,
    • Education,
    • Banking
    • Location
  2. The judges expect the entrants to have identified the evidence as to how the causes or consequences of poverty can be relieved or mitigated.
  3. In particular, the evidence should include how the solution will benefit those who are in poverty or suffering hardship and how that benefit can be or has been measured.
  4. Projects must be supported by a simple high-level business plan identifying essential immediate cash-requirements, and a self-sustaining future operating model.

For more information

Please send an email to:

innovation4all.award@engineerscompany.org.uk

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Previous winners:

2025 Joint winners: “It’s time to know” – Sara Cottee, CEO of Immi Health and “Chimneys for Africa” – David Baulis, Co-founder and Designer view details

2024 “No one left behind” – a project led by Dr Sara Behforootan view details

2023 Gayatri Sundar Rajan & INDECO view details

Without the support of the Innovation4All grant and team, I may not have had the support to take the concept from simulations to experiments.

Gayatri Sundar Rajan, previous Innovation4All winner

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