RIBA Education

From our free student membership and our associate membership for those who have completed their Part 1 and Part 2, to our chartered membership for those fully qualified, we’re here to keep you on track and prepare for what’s ahead. Membership will connect you to a global community striving to elevate the built environment for people and the planet. We’ll equip and empower you to excel, with a wide variety of practical resources and benefits to help you stay up to date and ahead of the curve. ➡️ Join today: riba.org

We are now accepting applications for the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 🌍 Worth £9,000, the scholarship supports international travel on a research topic related to the sustainable future of cities. ➡️ Find out more: riba.org/FundingOpportunities Supported by @normanfosterfdn

We are now accepting applications for the Part 2 Bursary scheme from students continuing their studies in September 2026. The scheme aims to provide long-term financial support to Part 2 architecture students who demonstrate talent and commitment to their studies and who might struggle to cover the costs of living and course-related expenditures. ➡️ Apply today: riba.org/FundingOpportunities

We are now accepting applications for the RIBA Goldfinger Bursary. This bursary, made possible thanks to a generous donation from the family of Ernö Goldfinger, provides long-term financial support to Part 1 architecture students who demonstrate talent and commitment to their studies and who might struggle to cover the costs of living and course-related expenditures. ➡️ Apply today: riba.org/FundingOpportunities

#NationalApprenticeshipWeek is about highlighting the value of apprenticeships and the skilled careers they create. But with funding for Level 7 apprentices over 21 now cut, the apprenticeship route for architecture is at risk. 📣 We’re urging government to extend funding eligibility to 25 for Level 7. ➡️ Read and share our open letter, signed by 70+ organisations: riba.org/campaigns #NAW2026 #BuiltEnvironmentApprenticeships

We are now accepting applications for the Part 1 Bursary scheme from students continuing their studies in September 2026/27. The scheme aims to provide long-term financial support to Part 1 architecture students who demonstrate talent and commitment to their studies and who might struggle to cover the costs of living and course-related expenditures. ➡️ Apply today: riba.org/FundingOpportunities

We are now accepting applications for the 2026 RIBA John and David Hubert Bursary 📣 The bursary provides financial support to students in situations of forced displacement who are enrolled on a RIBA-validated architecture course at either Part 1 or Part 2 in the UK. ➡️ Apply today: riba.org/FundingOpportunities

Introducing the Jury for Round 1 for CP Kukreja Trophy 2025–26 The CP Kukreja Foundation for Design Excellence, in collaboration with NASA India and supported by RIBA, is pleased to present our eminent, globally diverse jury for the CP Kukreja Trophy 2025–26. Comprising leading architects, urban designers, academicians, and practitioners from India and across the world, the jury brings deep expertise across design, urbanism, sustainability, and architectural education. The Trophy continues to foster critical inquiry and design excellence, encouraging future architects to engage meaningfully with the built environment.

🎓💼 Level 7 apprenticeships let you combine work and study, enabling young people to access the built environment profession without taking on large amounts of debt. This is why we are urging the Government to raise the age of eligibility for Level 7 apprenticeship funding to 25 years old for built environment professionals. 📝 Read our open letter to the Department for Work and Pensions, signed by over 70 organisations: riba.org/campaigns #BuiltEnvironmentApprenticeships

📢 From January 2026, funding for new Level 7 apprenticeships will be restricted to those aged 16-21. For many this will mean they are unable to access funding. We’ve written to the Department for Work and Pensions, calling on the Government to raise the age for Level 7 apprenticeship funding to 25 for built environment professionals. ✍️ Signed by over 70 organisations, businesses, and academic institutions across the built environment, our letter highlights the value of apprenticeships. Funding for Level 7 apprentices will help ensure the built environment is open and inclusive to as many young people as possible. 👉 Read the letter and support our campaign: riba.org/campaigns #BuiltEnvironmentApprenticeships

Now in their 189th year, our RIBA President’s Medals recognise the world’s best work of architecture students and are regarded as the most prestigious prizes in architectural education. Designs for a reimagined slave trade memorial in Malawi, a vision of a shared ecosystem following the demolition of a dam in Helsinki, and a dissertation on Shetland’s evolving traditions of ‘island-making’ have been announced as this year's winning projects. Last week we celebrated our 2025 winners with a ceremony at our London headquarters ⬇️ 🏅 RIBA Silver Medal - awarded to Glory Kamthumzi, Part 2 at the University of the Free State, South Africa 🏅 RIBA Bronze Medal - awarded to William Li, Part 1 @bartlettarchucl , UK 🏅 RIBA Dissertation Medal - awarded to Finlay Aitken, Part 2 @bartlettarchucl , UK 🏅 RIBA Award for Sustainable Design - awarded at Part 1 to Toby Ritson @uniofbath , UK and at Part 2 to Anastasiia Kalinina @aaschool , UK 🏅 Serjeant Awards for Excellence in Drawing - awarded at Part 1 to Chanunchida Pung Pung Phonoi @bartlettarchucl , UK and at Part 2 to Benjamin Hanger; Beth Kippin; Jamie Ferguson; Joel Boyd; Marco Lin and Siena Cornish, @uniofbath , UK. ➡️ Explore this year's winning projects: presidentsmedals.com #RIBAPresidentsMedals #RIBAFutureArchitects #StudyArchitecture

🏅 #RIBAPresidentsMedals 2025 Award for Sustainable Design at Part 2 winner 👉 ‘Dancing on Falling Land: Cryo-cultural infrastructures on thawing (perma)frost’ - Anastasiia Kalinina, Part 2 @aaschool , UK ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “The Sakha Republic sits atop continuous permafrost; its thaw risks releasing billions of tons of methane and CO2 into the warming atmosphere. This project makes two local festival traditions - the Ohuokhai circle dance and the Labour Day parade - operative in challenging the hegemony of extractive and military logics in understanding and managing the region’s frozen soilscape. Three interventions into the region’s festival infrastructure channel radical uncertainty about permafrost thaw into engaging in the loss of one world, while singing another into existence. A network of serge sensors is deployed across the intersections of seismic profiling gridlines with alaas meadows. Sakha horse-hitching posts are hybridised with temperature boreholes and methane sensors, forming interfaces with a permafrost data commons. Yakutsk’s heating pipeline is raised, creating a new parade route along religiously-futureproofed infrastructure. Piles recycle thaw-demolition waste, their integrated thermobraids displaying live permafrost changes to paraders each year. Yakutsk’s parade axis is extended into Lena's floodplain, towards a new Ohuokhai dancing square. Floodwater circulates through the gabion base, filled with reclaimed demolition brick, supporting a semi-hardscaped heave-friendly surface. Seasonal use re-frames flooding as a life- giving rather than destructive force, seeking to inhabit waterlogged permafrost landscapes rather than filling them in.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎓 We’re celebrating excellence in architectural education with our #RIBAPresidentsMedals showcase. Want to view our nominated and winning projects in more detail? Explore at presidentsmedals.com