Calendar of events

Dates for your diary

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

EngineeringUK events

  • A young person at The Big Bang Fair is lit by theatrical lighting. They are holding a piece of equipment which is glowing. They stare into the foreground.

    The Big Bang Fair 2025

    The UK's biggest annual STEM fair for young people returns to the NEC. 

    17 to 19 June 2025

    Explore The Fair
  • 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 showcased their ideas and innovations to MPs, peers and business leaders on 18 November 2024.

    Find out more
  • 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
  • 4 secondary school students with their teacher looking at a model wind farm in a classroom

    Code and Neon webinar

    Exclusively for the Code and Neon communities. Explore how to promote engineering and tech careers through environmental sustainability.

    23 January 2025

  • A smiling delegate at Tomorrow's Engineers Live

    Tomorrow's Engineers Live

    The must-attend conference for STEM outreach professionals. 

    24 February 2025

Volunteer for The Big Bang Fair 2025!

Do you work in STEM and want to inspire the next generation? We're looking for volunteers to inspire the next generation at The Big Bang Fair from 17 to 19 June at the NEC in Birmingham. 

Can you help?

Apply now! 

Awareness days and key dates

Summer term

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

Earth Day


22 April 2025

Embrace the Earth

National Numeracy Day

21 May 2025

Find out more
A young person at The Big Bang Fair is lit by theatrical lighting. They are holding a piece of equipment which is glowing. They stare into the foreground.

The Big Bang Fair 2025

June 2025

Explore The Fair
Fly agaric mushroom

World Environment Day

5 June 2025

Find out more
Industrial greenhouse

Great Big Green Week

7 to 15 June

Explore the week
Close up of someone working with complicated apparatus or machinery

International Women in Engineering Day

23 June 2025

Discover INWED
Two people at work shaking hands in an office environment

Volunteers Week

2 to 8 June

Explore the week

Autumn term

Silhouette of a person writing maths formulae on a whiteboard

Ada Lovelace Day


8 October 2025

Find Ada
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

October 2025

Find out more
Wind turbines in water at sunset

Green Careers Week


October 2025

Explore green careers
Deep space, a galaxy or constellation

World Space Week


October 2025

Go into space
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 2025

 

Register for TE Week
Close up of a part of a globe, focused on Europe

Protecting our Planet Day

November 2025

Find out more
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 2025

Explore the day
A picture of the Earth from space

COP30

November 2025

Explore Cop29

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