Hi! We’re EUK Education
Do you want young people to think about STEM careers? We do. Our mission is to make it quick and easy for schools to access high quality science, engineering and technology careers inspiration
EUK Education brings together everything that EngineeringUK does for schools and teachers so you have everything you need to inspire young people into STEM careers. What does that include? High quality careers resources, curriculum-linked lesson plans, a way to find the best activities, inspiring role models, funded drop-down days and STEM careers fairs.
That’s right! We offer funding for schools to give students more opportunities to interact with STEM. Oh, and all the EUK Education activities and resources are free. That includes Big Bang, Climate Schools Programme and Energy Quest.
We’re also responsible for the annual Tomorrow’s Engineers Week campaign. And we’re the team behind Neon – helping you find brilliant quality-assured activities.
We want to make quality STEM inspiration accessible for schools and teachers. So we create top notch content, signpost to the best activities and offer funding for our priority schools. What are priority schools? They’re the schools most likely to have students from groups underrepresented in engineering and technology.
Why we do what we do
We know there are really rewarding careers to be had in engineering and technology, in a wide range of industries, at all levels and across the UK. We want school students to know that too. So we help schools and students access quality STEM careers inspiration.
We also know that engineering skills are in high demand and expected to grow. That means we need more young people going into these jobs. It also means they are well paid and prospects are good.
Many young people don’t know what engineers do. We want to change that so they can see how what they learn at school shapes the world we live in.
Innovation, design, problem solving, teamwork, creativity are at the heart of engineering and technology and we want to bring that to life for your students.
When young people meet an engineer or technician or take part in a STEM careers activity, they’re more likely to consider a career in engineering and technology. So, we want more of them to have that opportunity.
Our activities for schools
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Climate Schools Programme
Empower your students to explore innovative solutions to tackling climate change and discover brand-new skills. Includes science, English and geography lessons.
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Tomorrow's Engineers Week
Help your students see how engineering and technology tackles the real-world issues they care about during our annual Tomorrow’s Engineers Week.
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The Big Bang Challenge
Support your students to build a STEM project step-by-step with The Big Bang Challenge. They get certificates and virtual badges along the way.
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The Big Bang Competition
Bring your students’ ideas to life with the UK’s biggest STEM competition for young people. Enter a STEM project to be in with the chance of winning life-changing prizes.
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Energy Quest
Centred around a real-world scenario for problem-solving and teamwork activities. The lesson plans are filled with fun, practical, hands-on experiments for students to run and learn from.
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Big Bang at School
Everything you need to host an exciting day filled with amazing science and engineering activities, workshops and more. Get resources, insights and connections so you can deliver an unforgettable day.
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The Big Bang Fair
Challenge your students’ perceptions of STEM at The Big Bang Fair. Take part in hands-on activities, inspiring shows and careers panels. It's the UK’s biggest celebration of STEM.
How do we know what inspires young people?
We evaluate all our activities for schools to understand what works best to inspire students. We speak to the young people and teachers who take part to see what they think. We continually make changes and improvements based on their feedback, meaning evaluation is at the heart of all we do.
We also share our research into the engineering and technology workforce, STEM in schools, and what works to help inspire young people.
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Does EUK Education work to the curriculum?
Yes! You have to squeeze a lot into a school day. So, we want the activities and resources we create to make things easier for teachers and careers leaders. And we want them to get young people thinking about a possible future in technology and engineering.
Our activities have lesson plans, activities and resources all linked to the curriculum. They’re free and designed to help teachers deliver engaging lessons where students understand how their learning links to real jobs they could do.
How our activities and resources align with frameworks
We understand that you need to know how what we offer aligns with the frameworks that guide your work.
The DfE Enrichment Framework points to Neon for STEM activities. As you browse, you can see how each activity listed aligns with careers frameworks as well as with Skills Builder and equalex.
We align with Gatsby Benchmarks, the CDI framework, Provider Access Legislation and the careers and work-related aspects of the Curriculum for Wales framework. Equally, we align with the aims of Developing the Young Workforce (DYW Scotland).
Meet the team
Our engagement team work hard to create the activities that inspire students and bring engineering careers to life. And they work with activity providers to give you great choice. From sourcing inspiring case studies, creating exciting activities, crowning competition winners and quality assuring enrichment activities - they make it happen.
We're here to help. If you've got questions about our work or fancy a chat, get in touch!
Who we work with
We work in partnership with educators, careers organisations, industry, government, professional bodies and delivery partners.
Funding for schools
We want all students to have the chance to do great STEM activities however tight school budgets are. So, we offer a range of bursaries to our priority schools.
We make a difference
Our activities and careers resources help students see they could have a career in STEM and show them the career pathways.
Career partners
We work in partnership with careers organisations so what we do is great quality and works for students, teachers and careers advisors.