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Double industry award success for WMG partnerships
WMG is celebrating significant success after two collaborative projects, AeroMC and ZEST, secured major wins at the 2025 Aerospace Technology and Innovation Awards. Hosted by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) as part of its annual conference, the awards recognise the pioneering research and development projects paving the way for zero-carbon aviation. This year, WMG was part of the winning projects that scooped the Team Award and the Shaping the Future Award, highlighting its leading role in advanced manufacturing and sustainable aerospace technology.
WMG to support Bromsgrove and Redditch SMEs
WMG has been chosen to deliver the Innovation Lighthouse Programme, designed to empower and upskill small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bromsgrove and Redditch. Combining WMG’s manufacturing expertise, academic and research excellence, and world-class facilities, the programme will help SMEs grow whilst becoming more competitive and resilient.
WMG responds to industry demand with new robotics degree
WMG has launched a new undergraduate programme, BEng Robotics Engineering with Artificial Intelligence (AI), expanding its undergraduate education portfolio. The course has been developed in response to significant technological transformations across industry, driven by the increasing use of robotics and AI.
University of Warwick and Tata Group win Bhattacharyya Award
The University of Warwick and the Tata Group have won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s highly esteemed Bhattacharyya Award for their pioneering partnership.
Launched in 2019 to honour the late Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya — founder of Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick — the award recognises long-term, impactful collaboration between academia and industry, and celebrates the projects that help make our world a better, more sustainable place.
The award is a testament to the commitment of both the University and Tata Group to pushing boundaries, driving innovation, and delivering high-level research, whilst helping secure the future of UK industry globally.
Nurturing new talent with Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs and WMG announced the launch of their partnership for an inaugural Digital and Technology Solutions undergraduate degree apprenticeship programme in Birmingham.
This new initiative builds on the decade-long success of the firm's established London apprenticeship programme, offering school leavers a unique pathway to gain invaluable professional experience at Goldman Sachs while simultaneously earning a fully funded university degree in engineering.
This significant expansion underscores Goldman Sachs' deep commitment to fostering talent and investing in the UK's future workforce. It follows the firm's £1.5 million pledge earlier this year to the West Midlands Combined Authority levy transfer scheme. These funds are dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized businesses, charities, and social enterprises across the region to invest in staff development, with a particular focus on critical digital skills.
New partnership to drive agri-tech manufacturing forward in the UK
WMG, University of Warwick is part of a unique cross-Government partnership, with Defra digital, data, technology and security; Innovate UK and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), to support businesses to scale up agri-tech manufacturing in the UK.
Angela Eagle, Minister for Food and Agriculture announced the six-month pilot accelerator programme, AgriScale, at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit.
By focusing on accelerating product manufacturing, AgriScale fills a critical gap in the innovation pipeline, helping promising technologies move from validated prototypes to market quickly and reliably.
Showcasing academia and industry on the international stage
Key visits to WMG in September 2025
WMG was pleased to showcase its world-class research facilities and education programmes to international organisations, such as the Monash Centre for Additive Manufacturing, the UK Academic Alliance for Pavement and Highway Engineering and Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, throughout September.
Driving AI with the first quantifiable safety framework
- WMG and Wayve create first system-agnostic framework to improve AI safety
- Closing the AI safety gap is critical to the real-world deployment of autonomous vehicles globally
- WMG Professor presents framework to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Experts at WMG, University of Warwick and Wayve – a leading AI technology developer – have created the first system-agnostic framework designed to bring a standardised, scientific approach to the testing of datasets for self-driving vehicles.
WMG celebrates shortlist nomination at THE awards
WMG’s Waste2Race project has been shortlisted for a 2025 Times Higher Education (THE)Link opens in a new window Award in the Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year category.
Waste2Race joins three other University of Warwick initiatives on the shortlist.
Over 120 institutions submitted more than 500 entries this year, with 69 of them making the final shortlist across 21 highly competitive categories. University of Warwick stands out as one of only five institutions to receive four nominations, showcasing the breadth of its excellence across teaching, research, knowledge exchange, and student support.
Celebrating excellence at the Faraday Institution Community Awards
A group of academics at WMG, University of Warwick have been recognised at the prestigious 2025 Faraday Institution Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowCommunity Awards.
Dr Mona Faraji NiriLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Associate Professor of Battery Modelling won the Public Engagement / STEM Outreach Individual Award, and Professor Louis PiperLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Dr Ashok MenonLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window and Dr Gaurav PandeyLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, were presented with the group Innovation Award.
The Awards followed the Faraday Institution Conference, which was held from 9-11 September, at the University of Warwick. The conference showcased cutting-edge research, with a strong emphasis on collaboration across academia, industry, and policy in pursuit of a net-zero future.