The C2I awards, sponsored by Babcock International Group, was launched to uncover and celebrate great examples of engineering collaboration – a dynamic critical to addressing many of the challenges and problems faced by society. DISCOVERER is a Horizon 2020 project, led by Dr Peter Roberts at the University of Manchester with 8 partner institutions from across Europe. DISCOVERER was declared the winner in the aerospace and defence category in the C2I 2021 awards.