Calendar of events

Dates for your diary

Browse our events as well as campaigns and awareness days marked in schools and colleges.

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Tomorrow's Engineers Live, coming in February 2026. 

EngineeringUK events

  • Teacher and a group of young people sit around a large table. They have pens and note books, working as the teacher talks.

    Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2025

    The Week has inspired hundreds of thousands of young people with engineering and technology careers throughout the years. 

    10 to 14 November 2025

    Find out more
  • Ranita Ariyibi, UK Young Engineer of the Year 2023 shows a guest at The Big Bang at Parliament her invention

    Big Bang at Parliament

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

    24 November 2025

    Find out more
  • 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

Autumn term

Two people at work shaking hands in an office environment

National Inclusion Week

15 to 21 September 

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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 2025

Find out more
Deep space, a galaxy or constellation

World Space Week

4 to 10 October 2025

Go into space
young male student working on equipment with his mentor

T Levels Week

10 to 14 October

More info
Silhouette of a person writing maths formulae on a whiteboard

Ada Lovelace Day


14 October 2025

Find Ada
Wind turbines in water at sunset

Green Careers Week

3 to 8 November 2025

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

5 November 2025

Explore the day

Quantum Schools Celebration

7 November 2025

Visit the website
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

10 to 14 November 2025

 

Register for TE Week

Scottish Careers Week

10 to 14 November 2025

Discover the week
A picture of the Earth from space

COP30

10 to 21 November 2025

Explore Cop29
Close up of a part of a globe, focused on Europe

Protecting our Planet Day

27 November 2025

Find out more

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

Find out more
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

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