Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship, 2022

It is a great opportunity to students who wish to carry out collaborative research to strength corprate links to enchance knowledge in engineering with academics. The Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship, 2022 scheme enables mid-career academics and industrialists to undertake a collaborative research project in either an industrial or academic environment, where one party would host the other. The scheme aims to strengthen the strategic relationship between industry and academia by providing an opportunity to establish or enhance collaborative research between the two parties. 

Eligibility criteria for the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship, 2022:

• Applicants can be of any nationality.
• Applications are welcome from any engineering discipline.
• Applicants must hold a permanent post in the UK in an industrial organisation. Consultants and temporary contract workers are not eligible to apply
• Applicants should be degree qualified or have a professional qualification, such as being a chartered engineer
• Typically it is expected that applicants will have at least 5 years of relevant accumulated experience of working in engineering industry
• The academic host must be based in the UK. International (industry to academia) fellowships are currently not allowed
• Proposals must be written by the individual applicants. Awards will be made to the host university, but funding may be transferred by the university to the industrial organisation to cover salary as appropriate

Benefits of the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship, 2022:

The Academy will contribute up to a maximum of £50,000 (per-annum) towards the basic salary costs (excluding overheads) of the applicant, paid pro-rata against the amount of time to be spent at the host organisation. The total award is capped at £100,000 for awards that exceed one year in duration.