Open to pre-final year students studying engineering,
physical sciences, sustainability and low carbon disciplines.
We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the outstanding low carbon undergraduate. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record, along with a passion for the environment and a belief in encouraging low-carbon behaviour.
EDF Energy is a sustainability partner of the Olympics, demonstrating a commitment to reducing carbon consumption and are seeking a student who shares this vision. The rewards are great: the winner will be awarded tickets to a sporting event and a summer placement with EDF Energy. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April, 2012.
Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be well looked after by the sponsor,
EDF Energy and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.
So if you are a pre-final year undergraduate with a passion for reducing carbon consumption...
And you are expecting at least a 2.1...
And you think you're the best low carbon undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.
Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.
How do I win it then?
It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.
Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor, EDF Energy.
Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere around 30 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is 31 January 2012.
Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.
Last year's winner
Omar Nabeel
Omar was born in Amman, Jordan but has lived most his life in London. He grew up with a great interest in maths and physics, and so his eventual decision to read Civil Engineering at university was no surprise. He started his degree at University College London in 2007, and is about to sit his final exams, expecting to graduate with 1st Class honours.
Tell me about
EDF Energy
EDF Energy is the UK’s largest generator of low carbon electricity and the largest supplier of electricity based on volume in Great Britain. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the EDF Group, EDF Energy employ around 15,000 people, and supply electricity to more than 5.5 million business and residential customer accounts.
The company is organised into the following business units:
Nuclear Generation operates eight nuclear power stations in the UK with a combined capacity of almost 9,000 megawatts - electricity that is vital to the UK economy and constitutes 50% of the UK's low carbon electricity.
Nuclear New Build Plan to build 4 new EPR reactors in the UK, subject to receiving the necessary consents and a robust investment framework being in place.
Energy Sourcing and Customer Supply runs power stations and wind farms, buys and sells power to meet future generation and customer needs and deals with all our energy customers.
This year we recruited around 100 graduates and are looking to do the same in 2012 as well. Find out more about us at: www.edfenergy.com/graduates
