SEE: The STEM Engagement Europe Project STEM IN IRELAND 16/10/2015 ZLÍNSKY KRAJ

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1 SEE: The STEM Engagement Europe Project STEM IN IRELAND 16/10/2015 ZLÍNSKY KRAJ

2 National Picture STEM Overview STEM Where The Jobs Are The hard Stem sell: trying to get girls to buy into science Leaving Certificate current statistics Leaving Certificate Gender Breakdown University Entrants 2015 SMART Futures National Websites Resources

3 STEM - Overview European Commission - Growth of 8% in demand for STEM professionals and associate professionals from now to 2025 Employment to rise by 6.5% Future success of Ireland s economy will require increased numbers of skilled workers with Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics qualifications.

4 STEM: Where the jobs are: Information & Communications Technology Since 2011 over 15,000 jobs announced All of top 10 multinational technology companies have significant presence in Ireland Five of the top 10 exporters in Ireland are technology companies. Ireland is first in the Eurozone for ease of doing business and first for availability of skilled labour 2015 estimated shortage of 864,000 ICT professionals across EU Ireland to see demand for ICT skills of 5% each year up to 2018

5 Where the Jobs are: Medical Devises 250 medtech companies in Ireland 8bn annual Irish medtech exports 25,000 people employed 11 of world s top 13 medical technology companies in Ireland Pharma Chemical 8 of top 10 pharmaceutical companies have a facility in Ireland Exports worth 55.1bn 50,000 people employed

6 Where the Jobs are: Agri-Food 230,000 jobs 9bn exports Innovation is one of the three pillars [Smart, Green, Growth) of the national agri-food strategy Food Harvest 2020 which aims to create 30,000 new jobs

7 The hard STEM sell: HEA New Entrant figures % of new entrants into science, maths and computing courses at university level were women fallen to 40%. Engineering, manufacturing, construction male entrants outnumber female by 4 to ,000 people working in STEM in Ireland 25% are women. Less than 7% of tech positions in Europe are filled by women

8 Leaving Certificate Stats: HL Technology up by 18.7% Physics up by 6.7% Engineering up by 5.6% Biology up by 4.7% Chemistry up by 4.2% Project Maths up by 27%

9 Leaving Certificate Gender Rep: HL Maths F6996 M7695 Applied Maths F432 M1297 Physics F1568 M4196 Biology F13,159 M9686 Engineering F249 M4159 Construction F560 M6317 Technology F197 M970 Design & Communications F53 M566

10 University Entrants 2015 National Stats Regional Stats Natural Science Maths & Stats M8280 F8461 M5747 F5566 Info & Communications Tech M8556 F1527 M3005 F629 Engineering M14,215 F2506 M4974 F1378

11 SMART FUTURES Government-Industry partnership Smart Futures is a partnership between Government, industry and educators which promotes STEM careers and role models to postprimary students, guidance counsellors and parents. It is coordinated by SFI Discover, the education and public engagement programme of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), in partnership with Engineers Ireland s STEPS programme, PharmaChem Ireland, the Royal Society of Chemistry, ICT Ireland and the Institute of Physics and is one of the Government s commitments to address skills needs under the Action Plan for Jobs.

12 SMART FUTURES Impacting change at second-level In 2013, Smart Futures engaged with approximately 28,000 secondary students providing STEM careers talks in schools, outreach events and online competitions. 929 volunteer engineers, scientists and ICT professionals have already been trained to deliver their career story to young students, enabling over 400 schools to receive career talks and reaching more than 15,000 students nationwide in the last academic year alone.

13 SMART FUTURES Increasing female participation The Smart Futures website demonstrates the huge range of career opportunities across the STEM sectors with career stories and video interviews with people working in areas such as cybersecurity, engineering, energy, biotechnology, medical devices, manufacturing, data analytics and much more. It works to challenge stereotypes associated with people who work in STEM and in particular seeks opportunities to promote female role models in STEM to help encourage participation by younger female students.

14 National Websites

15 Resources www/esero.ie