EGA expands Engineer the Future STEM programme to 25 more schools
Emirates Global Aluminium plans to take its STEM programme to 25 additional schools in the 2026/27 academic year.
Event / data period: 2026-10-19
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The company said on 19 October that Engineer the Future introduces students in grades nine to 12 to industrial applications of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Since 2017, more than 44,000 students from over 170 UAE schools have participated, and female students account for 63 per cent of programme participants.
In 2025/26, about 1,200 students from 105 schools entered the programme’s aluminium design challenge in 352 teams; more than 7,000 students also took part in Engineer the Future activities during that academic year. EGA runs the programme with the UAE Ministry of Education.
Data
Engineer the Future programme reach
Figures reported for EGA’s UAE school programme and its 2025/26 challenge.
- Additional schools targeted
- ≥25 schools
- 2026 · Target
- Students participating since 2017
- ≥44,000 people
- 2017 — 2026 · Observed
- Schools participating since 2017
- ≥170 schools
- 2017 — 2026 · Observed
- Share of female students
- 63 %
- 2026 · Observed
- Design challenge participants, 2025/26
- ≈1,200 people
- 2025 · Observed
- Design challenge teams, 2025/26
- 352 count
- 2025 · Observed
- Schools in design challenge, 2025/26
- 105 schools
- 2025 · Observed
- Programme participants, 2025/26
- ≥7,000 people
- 2025 · Observed
Methodology
The 2026/27 target and 2025/26 academic-year results are separate periods; totals since 2017 are cumulative.
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Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- EducationSuggested
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