LIF Global 2025

An orange graphic with a LIF logo on the top and a photo of a woman staring at a device on the right-hand side reads "Applications are now open for LIF Global 2025. The Royal Academy of Engineering's LIF Global programme provides commercialisation support to innovators tackling economic and societal challenges. Join the community and accelerate your engineering innovation".

Applications for the LIF Global 2025 programme are now open.

With over ten years of experience in driving global innovation, LIF Global empowers talented #InnovationLeaders who are making a positive impact in their communities with novel technologies to commercialise their innovation.

Offering a distinguished, eight-month programme of training, mentoring, and networking, the programme fosters an entrepreneurial mindset, and an international network, for the innovators that it works with.

Those who join the programme are offered:
- Bespoke, 1:1 training and mentoring from experts
- Training events, both in-country* and in the UK
- Access to our 1,400+ alumni community

We take no equity, fee or IP from the innovators that we work with.

We actively encourage applications from all under-represented backgrounds and demographics.

Click here to find out more about the programme, or to apply.

*The LIF Global countries for 2025 are Brazil, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Vietnam.