The aim of this grant is to benefit women with a background in engineering to take the Star Rating Essentials and Star Rating for Designs courses.

We are incredibly proud to announce that because of the higher-than-expected interest and number of excellent applications, we have decided to extend the iRAP International Women in Engineering Day Grant Scheme to reward 31 successful recipients instead of 20. These women are from all around the word, including Nepal, Iraq, Brazil, India, Italy, Spain, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya, Poland, Vietnam, Romania, Jordan, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Tanzania and Bangladesh.

The selection committee chose these candidates that fit in the criteria below:

• Have a background in engineering.
• Has not benefited from an iRAP project in the last 5 years.
• Will have the best use of the acquired knowledge.

Some of the highlights nominated by the successful recipients on how they intend to use use their knowledge include:

• To prioritize investment in Italy
• To teach future engineers at University in Brazil
• To implement in a 6,000km network in Catalonia
• To disseminate to my work colleagues and contribute to the regulatory agencies in Brazil
• To contribute to road safety designs in India
• To advocate for safer roads in Rwanda
• To solve road safety issues and implement the correct and sustainable road safety approaches in Kenya.
• To  motivate and pass on the knowledge to other women engineers in Poland.
• To implement in the concession roads in Argentina.

Below is a list of all our successful recipients.