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Enriching the STEM workforce of tomorrow

Martin Bryant

emda Board Member

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RES & Skills Context

• Regional Economic Strategy

• Corporate PlanUpdate July 2009

• Sub National Review November 2008& New Industry New Jobs April 2009

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Employer engagement Why it is so important

• Young people benefits• Raise aspirations• Identify career options• Develops employability skills

• Businesses benefits• Right skills• Recruitment• Fresh ideas

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• Enterprise is having ideas and making them happen

• Being enterprising is the ability to respond to change, take risks, to innovate and to generate and implement new ideas and new ways of doing things.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

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• Come Alive with Science• STEM Fluency Labs• Invent• Lab 13• Sci-Art Fusions• Creative Sparks

Ignition*

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• Regional Universities • Regional Businesses

Lab in a Lorry

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• Teachers Conference• Careers Events• Masterclasses

Space Academy

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Engineering Development Trust

• Year in Industry• Go4SET• Engineering Education

Scheme• Headstart

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Priority sectors• Transport Equipment • Food and Drink • Healthcare and

Bioscience • Sustainable

Construction • STEM

Catapulting Kids Further!

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East Midlands STEM Scholarships

• Skills supported• Retention• Recruitment

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• Sharing good practice• Co-ordination• Promotion

STEM Support Partnership