EIBF is the registered charity that promotes business education for engineers and scientists. Each year, it awards £800,000+ in Sainsbury Management Fellows scholarships to talented and committed individuals to study for an MBA at the world’s leading business schools.
Members of EIBF (who are known as Sainsbury Management Fellows) have each received a Sainsbury Management Scholarship which enabled them to study for an MBA at a leading international business school.
Recognising the benefits of introducing young people to business at an early stage, EIBF also partners with more than 50 UK universities to sponsor enterprise competitions to reward talented engineers and scientists.
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More than 130 guests from across the engineering, science and business communities attended the EIBF Annual Dinner in May 2025. Dozens of Sainsbury Management Fellows were joined by university enterprise partners and business dignitaries at the event in Westminster. This year marks 38 years since the launch of the Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) scholarship programme, which has seen more than 424 talented engineers study for MBAs at world-leading business schools. Over that time, SMFs have started more than 300 new companies worth over £5 billion, helping to create more than 21,000 new jobs.Having founded the Sainsbury Management Fellows Scholarship in 1987, Lord Sainsbury of Turville used his speech at the annual dinner to reflect on the programme’s success and an ‘outstanding’ last 12 months. He said: “It’s encouraging to reflect on what has clearly been an outstanding year for the Sainsbury Management Fellows.“Tonight, we have much to celebrate — not only the continued success…
Successful business leaders have raised an impressive £150,000 to fund scholarships that will help people to follow in their footsteps.
Trailblazing business leaders who have helped shape the UK economy, launched hundreds of successful companies and created thousands of jobs are giving back to the same initiative that fuelled their success.
EIBF, the charity that promotes the importance and value of business education for engineers announced today that it has added five new UK business schools to the list of 14 approved schools.
EIBF, the charity that promotes the importance and value of business education for engineers announced today that it will also promote business education for scientists, providing eight MBA scholarships of £50,000 to UK scientists each year
Widening participation in a successful scholarship scheme which has supported hundreds of engineers to become leaders in their field was the main theme of Lord Sainsbury of Turville’s keynote speech at this year’s Engineers in Business Fellowship Annual Dinner.
Business leaders who have helped to grow the UK economy, start hundreds of companies and create thousands of jobs are giving back to the scheme which supported them to get to where they are today.
For the first time, Engineers in Business Fellowship (EIBF) is an Official Partner of International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED23). International Women in Engineering Day celebrates and honours the amazing work that women engineers are doing around the world to support and uplift communities. From developing innovative solutions to longstanding problems, to advancing new technologies that make our lives better, women engineers are contributing their skills and talents in countless ways. President of EIBF, David Falzani MBE said: “As a charity that has worked for decades supporting the professional development of incredibly talented young engineers through MBA scholarships, we are delighted to be an official partner of #INWED23. Our cohort of 402 Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMFs) includes many talented female engineers who are working to improve the lives of people worldwide. “Each year we mark the achievements of our female SMFs on INWED, so we are…
Giving the keynote speech at the Engineers in Business Fellowship Annual Dinner 2023, Lord Sainsbury of Turville spoke about the need for the UK economy to continue to increase its competitive advantage by producing more innovative, high value-added products that can be sold at a premium around the world.He said: “The only way we will be able to increase our rate of growth is by increasing the innovative performance of our companies. Whilst government can help in areas such as research and development, education, and infrastructure, ultimately it is the management of our companies that will have to raise their innovation rate and produce the next generation of attractive, high value-added products.”Thirty-six years ago, Lord Sainsbury established the Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) scheme, an MBA scholarship that provides significant financial support to young engineers with leadership potential to acquire business skills at top international schools so that they can help companies…
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