Impact

STEMAccord provides locally coordinated STEM programmes to primary and secondary schools in order to encourage more school pupils to long term careers in STEM-related sectors that will offer positive career prospects within their own regions, in line with the regional economic strategy.

Our aim is to encourage pupils and their parents to connect with exciting career opportunities in STEM, engaging innovative local companies and other regional organisations to foster a virtual cycle of engagement which will in turn create long term opportunities for growth and development.

STEM Accord partners have committed to pooling their very considerable networks of contacts and resources to facilitate this, focussing initially on a small number of key programmes.

Partners

STEM Accord rests on the principle of partnerships. Instead of creating a new STEM Organisation; STEM Accord aims to coordinate existing well-established STEM and educational organisations to provide a strong foundation for the next generations of British engineers.

We believe that a coordinated approach is critical to inspiring future engineers and address the £1.5bn skills shortage in the UK STEM sector.

We work closely with Engineering UK’s national programme, and exist to coordinate the work of our partners to deliver tailored STEM intervention in primary and secondary schools taking part in our regional pilot programme.

Phase 1

Bristol Pilot

Bristol was STEMAccord’s first project and was instrumental in forging coordination between partners, local schools and colleges and local companies

The project allowed STEMAccord to develop the framework for collaboration and engaged with sixteen schools across Bristol reaching hundreds of students.

The pilot provided valuable information to understand the difficulties faced by schools andorganisations delivering STEM initiatives and how a coordinated initiative that bringsvarious STEM initiatives together works well.

Although COVID-19 interrupted, the Toolkit from Bristol will now be used to support the expansion of STEM Accord through other regional projects and activity in Bristol will restart in earnest now that schools have returned.

Phase 2

The Midlands

The Midlands pilot provides locally coordinated STEM programmes to primary and secondary schools in order to encourage more school pupils to long term careers in STEM-related sectors that will offer positive career prospects within their own regions, in line with the regional economic strategy.

Schools across the Midlands are now eligible to take part in our second pilot. This pilot scheme offers an exciting and ambitious expansion of the STEM Accord programme.

We are aiming to connect with schools across the Midlands; including schools in Warwickshire and Birmingham.

The pilot will offer a carefully tailored package of activities are tailored to help the schools meet their Ofsted required Gatsby benchmarks. Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in secondary schools.