Future Makers: PolishEngineers.UK Excellence Award 2026
A new PolishEngineers.UK competition celebrating outstanding individual engineering work by students connected to the Polish community in the UK — £1,500 in prizes across three winners, plus a year of complimentary PolishEngineers.UK membership each.
Every year, Polish engineering students across the UK complete brilliant work — final-year projects, papers, prototypes, tools, designs — that rarely gets seen outside a supervisor's inbox. The Future Makers: PolishEngineers.UK Excellence Award exists to change that: to give you a reason to finish, polish and show off your best engineering, and to connect you with the wider Polish engineering community in the UK.
Who Can Enter
- You're a student at a British university — undergraduate, postgraduate taught, or doctoral.
- You're a member of a university Polish society. No Polish society at your university? You can still enter.
- You were a student at any point during 2026, including if you graduated this year
What Counts as an Entry
Any completed piece of engineering work: a student project, dissertation, scientific paper, technical article, design, prototype, experiment, analysis, working software tool, or a student-led engineering initiative. This list isn't exhaustive — what matters is that it's finished, not just proposed.
We're looking for:
- Engineering excellence and sound technical thinking
- A completed, tangible outcome — not just an idea
- Clear individual ownership of the contribution
- Evidence of results, value or significance
Work from university or outside it is equally welcome, and neither is given preference. Worked on something as part of a team? You can still enter — just make your own individual contribution clear (for example, submitting your chassis design from a Formula Student car, even though the full car was a team effort).
Prizes & Recognition
- 🥇 1st - £ 1,000 + 1 year complimentary STP membership
- 🥈 2nd - £ 300 + 1 year complimentary STP membership - Sponsored by Verite Design Management Ltd.
- 🥉 3rd - £200 + 1 year complimentary STP membership - Sponsored by Innovative Properties
All three winners will be celebrated at an awards cermony during traditional PolishEngineers.UK Christmas Party with a chance to present the work behind their entry.
Key Dates
- 12 October 2026 - Submissions open
- 14 November 2026 - Submissions close
- 5 December 2026 - Awards Ceremony
Competition Rules
Detailed competition rules can be found here. In case of further questions please contact: marian.zastawny@polishengineers.uk.
