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Browse our events as well as national campaigns and awareness days we should all celebrate. They’re a great way for schools and colleges to spark curiosity and embrace STEM.

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Tomorrow's Engineers Live 10 February 2026!

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EngineeringUK events

A smiling delegate at Tomorrow's Engineers Live

Tomorrow's Engineers Live 2026

The must-attend conference for STEM outreach professionals. The date's confirmed, more info to come!

10 February 2026

Find out more and get your ticket

The Big Bang Competition closes

Inspire young people to bring their STEM ideas to life through The Big Bang Competition.

Closing date for entries Wednesday 4 March 2026

What's The Big Bang Competition?

A young person interacts with exhibits and stands and activities at The Big Bang Fair

The Big Bang Fair

The UK's biggest free STEM fair for young people returns to the NEC, Birmingham.

9 to 11 June 2026

The Big Bang Fair

Awareness days and key dates

Spring term

An engineer at their desk working with tools all around them. They are writing and concentrating

National Apprenticeship Week

9 to 15 February 2026

Discover NAW

A group of girls doing an energy quest session

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

11 February 2026

Explore the day

Four engineers stand in a workshop around a large piece of equipment

Chartered Week

23 to 27 February 2026

Chartered Week

A young person stands in an office in front of an empty boardroom. They smile and look at the screen in their hands.

National Careers Week

2 to 7 March 2026

National Careers Week 2025

In the foreground a young person sits at a workbench looking at electronic circuit boars. Two people are doing the same in the background,

Scottish Apprenticeship Week

2 to 6 March 2026

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Engineer in hard hat and high vis walks past a wind turbine

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development

4 March 2026

Explore the day

Several pupils and one teacher working around a science bench in a school classroom. The students are working with scientific equipment such as microscopes. They are studying different plants,

British Science Week

6 to 15 March 2026

Discover BSW

Two people in an office environment work at a whiteboard, smiling

International Women's Day

8 March 2025

Explore IWD

Summer term

Two people at work shaking hands in an office environment

Volunteers Week

1 to 7 June 2026

Explore the week

Fly agaric mushroom

World Environment Day

5 June 2026

Find out more

Industrial greenhouse

Great Big Green Week

6 to 14 June 2026

Explore the week

Close up of someone working with complicated apparatus or machinery

International Women in Engineering Day

23 June 2026

Discover INWED

Vocational Celebration Day

A new national day to shine a light on vocational pathways. Championing the skills we urgently need to thrive. From Enginuity and EAL.

6 August 2026

Visit website

Autumn term

Two people at work shaking hands in an office environment

National Inclusion Week

14 to 20 September 2026

Visit website

The Big Bang Competition's UK Young Scientist of the Year winner stands and smiles at the camera surrounded by her working boards and sketches that show how her winning idea developed

The Big Bang Competition opens

September 2026

Find out more

Deep space, a galaxy or constellation

World Space Week

4 to 10 October 2026

Go into space

young male student working on equipment with his mentor

T Levels Week

October 2026

More info

Silhouette of a person writing maths formulae on a whiteboard

Ada Lovelace Day

13 October 2026

Find Ada

Wind turbines in water at sunset

Green Careers Week

November 2026

Explore green careers

A person in a glass walled boardroom surrounded by post it notes. They are writing on a large sheet of paper. Two people stand the other side of the glass.

National Engineering Day

November 2026

Explore the day

A group of secondary school students sit around a big table with their workbooks and pens. A teacher sits at the head of the table and is talking.

Tomorrow's Engineers Week

November 2026

Register for TE Week

Scottish Careers Week

November 2026

Discover the week

A picture of the Earth from space

COP31

November 2026

Reflecting on COP30

Big Bang Parliament 2023 competition winner showcases their project

Big Bang at Parliament

Big Bang Competition finalists showcase their ideas and innovations to MPs, peers and business leaders.

November 2026

Find out more

Close up of a part of a globe, focused on Europe

Protecting our Planet Day

November 2026

Find out more