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QEPrize
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) is a global engineering prize that
rewards and celebrates the engineers responsible for a ground-breaking innovation in
engineering that has been of global impact on humanity. The objective of the QEPrize is to
raise the public profile of engineering and to inspire young people and engage them in
engineering.
Speech Insert 1 – for use in front of UK audiences
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a new biennial £1m international prize which
celebrates outstanding advances in engineering that have created significant benefit to
humanity. <insert donor name here> is proud to be one of 12 donor engineering companies
supporting the prize.
The founding of the prize shows that we are, once again, serious about engineering in the
UK and we want the world to come to us and celebrate the very best in scientific,
engineering and design endeavour. The inaugural prize was awarded to the creators of the
Internet and the World Wide Web.
Speech Insert 2 – for use in front of international audiences
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a biennial £1 million global prize that will
celebrate the very best of global engineering advances and reward those ideas that have had
a positive impact on humankind. <insert donor name here> is proud to be one of 12 donor
engineering companies supporting the prize.
We want to inspire and excite the next global generation of engineers and make this
fantastic prize into an unparalleled opportunity to demonstrate how engineers and
engineering are making a real difference across the world. The inaugural prize was awarded
to the creators of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Speech Insert 3 – for reference in a wider context/at larger forums
Engineering as a discipline is essential if humankind is to develop solutions to some of the
problems that will confront us in the 21st century. Communications, energy, water supply
and travel are all issues that we need to address. Engineering will be at the forefront of
those efforts.
The newly created Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering – to which <inset donor company
name> is a proud donor - will help to ensure that engineering receives the credit it deserves,
inspiring the next generation of engineers in what is a search for a winner of global
importance.
This is a biennial £1 million global prize that will celebrate the very best of global
engineering advances. Nominations closed in the middle of September and high calibre
entries have been received from all corners of the globe. The inaugural prize was awarded to
the creators of the Internet and the World Wide Web.