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<p>The Year of Engineering 2018 campaign was a success thanks to the support and enthusiasm
of more than 1500 partners right across the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The efforts of our
partners – scores of passionate individuals from businesses, professional institutions,
charities, schools and colleges - helped the campaign deliver more than five million
direct experiences of engineering to 7-16 year olds across the UK, well exceeding
our set one million target.</p><p> </p><p>We have seen first-hand that when young
people get the chance to enjoy problem-solving activities or meet an engineer face-to-face,
they are more likely to consider it as a job. It was fantastic to see that for those
young people aware of the campaign, desirability of engineering careers increased
substantially – by 35 percentage points for 7-11s and 14 percentage points for 11-16s</p><p>
</p><p>We aim to create a lasting and meaningful legacy for the Year of Engineering
by continuing to show young people from different backgrounds what they can achieve
in engineering. We will work together across the Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy, the Department for Education and the Department for Transport
and other departments to build on the success of the campaign through a long-term
engineering legacy campaign and through continued collaboration across industry.</p><p>
</p><p>We need more engineers to help us meet our Grand Challenges to ensure the UK
leads the way on the AI and data revolution and the global shift to clean growth,
harness the power of innovation to meet the needs of an ageing society and become
a world leader in the future of mobility - the way people, goods and services move.</p><p>
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