Engineering X and Skills for Safety programme has launched a grant programme that aims to fund high impact,innovative projects for developing domestic engineering capability to build, operate and maintain critical engineering infrastructures safely and/or develop engineering capacity and skills needed most to adopt emerging technologies safely in countries.

This programme aims to support projects that will become case studies of excellence and disruptive innovation in engineering education and will generate significant long-term impact in addressing the needs expressed above, as well as produce heavily scalable and replicable models that inform education policy and practice more widely.

This grant scheme aims to fund projects in countries where there is a clear need to improve capacity and capability to do safer and innovative engineering that can make distinctive difference to safety problems through the following safety related outcomes and impact:

Skills and education interventions that will lead to improved capacity and capability for safe and innovative engineering.
Skills for safety interventions that will contribute to the reduction in accidents, incidents and fatalities resulting from unsafe engineering practices such as poor design, poor construction, poor inspection practices, poor operation, and maintenance of engineering infrastructures etc.
Projects that will contribute to safer working practices and more employable workforce including employable new graduates.

The grant will support applications that fit with one or more of the engineering skills where they are most needed programme's areas of interest.

Supporting policy and partnerships which develop necessary skills at necessary scale to tackle existing or emerging engineering skills and safety challenges and take advantage of existing or emerging opportunities (e.g. Artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, Smart agriculture, Solar energy, Additive manufacturing, Cyber security, etc)
Enhancing the quality of challenge-oriented educations in engineering institutions engineering universities, vocational/technical colleges, and apprenticeship providers, to tackle the existing or emerging engineering skills for safety challenges and take advantage of existing or emerging opportunities to ehance safety. For example, health and safety training, curriculum upgrade of programmes etc.
Upskilling the capacity of the engineering and technician workforce, new engineering graduates, in order to enhance capability to leverage emerging technologies which will improve engineering safety practices that will lead to safer engineering infrastructures, for example health and safety training etc.