About the KIVI Engineering Student Team Award

The KIVI Engineering Student Team Award was set up in 2022, partly at the instigation of Princess Mabel. This incentive award for student teams aims to give future engineers a boost, show what they are capable of as a team and give greater exposure to their innovative projects.

Eligible for the KIVI Engineering Student Team Award are student teams that distinguish themselves in their project/work on the basis of four competences; team spirit, innovativeness, social impact and expertise.

Project MARCH wins KIVI Engineering Student Team Award 2026

A super great performance by the team from Delft. They not only won the professional jury prize, but also the audience award!

The presentation of the KIVI Engineering Student Team Award 2026 took place during the 'Day of the Engineer'.

KIVI Engineering Student Team Award presentation

Competences

Eligible for the KIVI Engineering Student Team Award are student teams that distinguish themselves in four competences in their project/work:

Team spirit
Innovativeness
Social impact
Expertise

More on the criteria Engineering Student Team Award

Competencies KIVI Engineering Student Team Award

Dirk van Meer on competing for the KIVI Engineering Student Award

Dirk van Meer is CEO of CORE Changemakers at Eindhoven University of Technology, winner of the KIVI Engineering Student Team Award 2023. In this video, he talks about what winning the award has given them.