The search is on for engineering ambassadors
A new programme to upskill engineers and promote engineering as a career choice with local schools in your area has been launched by Manufacturing NI. They would like engineering companies to identify 1-2 engineers in their company to take part as Engineering Ambassadors for their company. The engineer(s) would receive free mentoring and [...]
Skill Up with The Open University
As part of the Northern Ireland Executive’s Economic Recovery Action Plan, a new Flexible Skills Fund, “Skill Up”, has been established by The Department for the Economy. The purpose of this funding is to help upskill and reskill individuals to meet the needs of the economy as we emerge from the pandemic. The [...]
Women in Innovation Award winners share advice for applicants
The Women in Innovation Awards 2021/22 will support at least 20 women with a £50,000 grant and bespoke business support package. As the Awards open to applicants, winners from the 2020/21 cohort share their advice on how to deliver an application that delivers impact and enables your passion to shine through. “Let your [...]
Awakenhub on the lookout for women entrepreneurs for new pilot
Have you been inspired or impacted by Covid19 to embark on your female founder journey? SheGenerate is a new pilot from AwakenHub that might be just what you are looking for. Maybe you have already taken the plunge but following lockdown need some help in getting off the ground. Or do you have [...]
Keeping Women in STEM
By Dr Caroline O’Hare, Business Communications & Marketing at Exploristics. Originally posted at https://exploristics.com/keeping-women-in-stem/ There’s nothing to stop you from going into science. That’s what my teachers said, and I felt that there wasn’t. I had always been interested in science and had never felt that it was a male preserve. I went to [...]
Women in Innovation Awards 2021-22
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, is offering at least 20 Women in Innovation Awards to female entrepreneurs across the UK. The winners will receive a £50,000 grant and a bespoke package of mentoring, coaching and business support. The competition aims to find women with exciting, innovative ideas and ambitious [...]
Equality Commission STEM Webinar Series
Northern Ireland’s STEM skills shortage is well documented and following uncertainty resulting from Brexit and the Covid 19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to develop the best pools of STEM candidates to ensure future economic growth. This focus on skills has recently been reflected in the Department for the Economy’s vision [...]
WISE NI Hub Invites Women Working In STEM To Help Inspire Future Generations
The Northern Ireland hub of WISE*, the campaign to improve gender balance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), is calling for women working in these fields to become role models on its careers platform My Skills My Life. The online resource was developed to address the stereotype that science, engineering and technology are more [...]
Academy and Amazon launch new bursary scheme to support social mobility among women students
The Royal Academy of Engineering is working with Amazon to launch a new Amazon Future Engineer bursary scheme in the UK. Twelve awards, worth £5,000 a year for up to four years, will be made available to students progressing from A level or technical education courses to university for the 2021/22 academic year. [...]
Engineering – there’s a job for every combination of talents.
Carrickfergus photonics company YELO is the latest company to sign the Equality Commission’s STEM Charter, committing to encouraging and supporting women in STEM roles. Judith Bell talks about how she chose her career. What do you at Yelo? Do like being an engineer? Would you encourage other girls to get involved in engineering? [...]
Encouraging women in Northern Ireland to climb the STEM career ladder
By Geraldine McGahey, Chief Commissioner, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland We recently welcomed Yelo, a local electronic test equipment manufacturer based in Carrickfergus, as the latest company to sign the Commission’s STEM Charter. Northern Ireland continues to have an under-representation of women across our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industries. Women are [...]
Two free festive resources from STEM Ambassadors!
To help you spread some STEM cheer this Christmas two STEM Ambassador Hubs have worked in partnership with STEM Ambassadors, and other Hubs, to create some fantastic festive content. Al the Robot and the Three Bears Coding Pantomime What better way to kick off the festive period than a fun filled Christmas coding [...]