Young Engineering Awards for Innovation and Sustainability 16 to 18 year-olds

Young Engineering Awards for Innovation and Sustainability (YEAIS)

For 2025, IChemE have introduced a new age category for the Young Engineering Awards for Innovation and Sustainability and are inviting young people who are participating in the Davidson Inventors Challenge to submit their ideas for this prestigious award, which recognises new and emerging talent in the field of chemical and process engineering.

Please note that teachers who are keen to submit entries from young people aged 16 to 18, who are not participating in the Davidson Inventors Challenge, are invited to email yeais@ichem.org to discuss the opportunity.

Who can enter

All submissions must be made by teaching staff. Entries maybe from a team of young people (up to a maximum of 6) or from individuals.

Participants in the Davidsons Inventors Challenge (DIC) may decide to submit their main project, a development of their project or another idea they have been considering. Team members are invited to submit their individual ideas if they prefer – entries into the YEAIS do not necessarily need to mirror DIC entries – this is merely an additional opportunity for those young people participating in the DIC.

How to enter

Entrants will judged on a poster presentation of their idea which they can submit using a standard template, downloaded from the link below.

Choose your priority topic from:

  • Clean Energy and Climate Action
  • Water and Sanitation
  • Food, Health and Wellbeing
  • Responsible Production
  • Innovation and Industry
  • Quality Education, including Lifelong Learning
  • Process Safety, including Major Hazards Management,
  • Digitalisation, including Cybersecurity

Teachers will need to complete three actions for entries into the YEAIS

  1. Download a copy of this spreadsheet ‘YEAIS data collection for DIC schools’ and enter the details of all the entrants. Email it to yeais@icheme.org (please use a separate tab for each poster).
  2. Complete this application form so that we know to expect your entry.
  3. Email the completed poster(s) to yeais@icheme.org using this poster template.

All three actions (spreadsheet emailed in, application form completed and poster template completed) must be fulfilled for entrants to be eligible for judging. Note for school students, all entries must be submitted by a member of the school teaching staff.

When to enter

All submissions must be made by midnight on 27 March 2025.

All YEAIS finalists will be invited to present their ideas at the Royal Society, in London, on 16 June 2025.