The deadline for submissions: 19 March 2026.

You must be a member of IChemE to be eligible to enter. If you are not yet a member, please complete your membership application.

Group entries (maximum of five in a group) will be welcomed.

1. Identify which age category of the award you are entering: undergraduate, postgraduate or early careers:
   
   
   • Undergraduate or equivalent – members studying full time for their first degree or undertaking an apprenticeship or related qualification
   • Postgraduate or equivalent – members studying for a Masters qualification, PhD or other postgraduate qualification
   • Early career – members working in a chemical, process or biochemical engineering field.
2. Choose your priority topic (you will be given an option to choose further categories that your project may align to): Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Climate Action, Engineering Biology, Environmental Protection and Improvement, Excellence in Education, Skills and Training, Food and Drink, Health and Wellbeing, Materials, Mining and Minerals, Process Safety, Waste Valorisation and Circular Economy or Water and Sanitation.
   
   
3. Submit your entry using Oxford Abstracts here. You will need to register for an account if you do not have one already.

Please note: you do not have to complete your application in one go. You can submit, even if some of the sections are not finished, you will get an email back telling you that your application is not finished. You will notice that there is no ‘save progress’ button but the functionality is there when you press ‘submit’.

• To ensure your submission is eligible, please use the poster template provided which can be downloaded from the submission form.
• Only entrants that have completed the submission form will be eligible for judging.

If you are successfully shortlisted you will be asked to submit a short video about your project in round 2. You will be emailed a link to the finalist submission form where you will be able to upload your video entry to a set of questions we will share with you. Please note your video should not exceed 5 minutes and the file size should not exceed 500 MB.