Supporting our community during the pandemic

Helping to make lockdown easier: With the UK and many other parts of the world in lockdown, the IET has brought together useful information on what we are doing to support parents, families and teachers who are remote schooling children. We are also promoting what our partners are doing to make this unsettling time a little bit easier. Please feel free to share this information with your networks.

If you're an IET member or partner, please let us know what you're doing to make the lockdown easier for others. Email us and we'll share your best practices on these pages.

Secondary School Students Free Resources

All ages

Free education resources

Looking to engage your child with their STEM remote learning at home or school? Our home learning teaching resources and activities for 4-16 year olds include lesson plans, handouts and videos. We’ve also got activities just for students, who want to carry out fun, STEM experiments with everyday objects as part of a piece of school work or to explore in their own time.

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Primary School Activity Packs Home Learning

Other education resources

Many other organisations offer free education resources for remote schooling and we’ve brought together some that we hope you’ll find useful.

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Government digital support and how you can donate your devices to support remote schooling

Information for local authorities, academy trusts and schools about the devices, internet access and support available to provide remote education. There’s also information for individuals on how to donate a device, or make a financial contribution, to support home learning.

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Top tips to help you with remote learning, fitness and gaining skills

We’ve compiled some useful tips to help you with remote learning, helping to stay fit and healthy and to gain new skills.

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Four fun and educational tech activities for families during lockdown

As we become used to lockdown life remote schooling may have lost its novelty, but there’s still a whole host of fun learning activities to discover. Catherine Allen, Member of the IET Digital Panel, has four ideas for you that use the devices you already own to both entertain and educate.

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IET calls for engineering community to support the India pandemic crisis

India has now recorded more than 20 million Covid infections and despite signs the country’s second wave is now slowing down help is still needed.

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How we are supporting our members

During these uncertain times, we want to support our members as much as we can so we've brought together information on our services that you might find useful.

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A Blog from IET Chief Executive Nigel Fine

November, 2020

Covid-19 has had a significant impact on every part of the IET since the beginning of the year. In many cases it has meant changing how we deliver services, being more innovative and agile. There have been many great achievements which we will be telling you more about in the next edition of Member News.

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New blog from IET USA

The IET is a global organisation with members in over 150 countries. In this blog, we hear from Brittany Leedy, Regional Marketing Manager, who updates us on how we've been supporting our USA customers during the pandemic.

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From our partners: Dassault Sytèmes

Dassault Sytèmes, the 3DExperience Company, provides both business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. It has produced the "ENGAGE" platform for the charity community and was set up for engineers to upskill while on furlough or in need of retraining.

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Webinar - 28 April 2021

Shaping Northern Ireland's Covid-19 recovery: job creation and upskilling the economy

The aim of this webinar is to invite conversation and provide solutions on topics relating to NI’s recovery from Covid-19 – namely the future job market and the skills required to ensure its success.

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Webinar - 13 May 2021

Shaping Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 recovery: accelerating the tech hub for the post-Covid era

This webinar will look at this topic and discuss what skills are needed to continue to develop NI’s tech hub and how can they be met? Is NI too dependent on foreign direct investment or are there other models that we should be aspiring to? How will support for the sector be affected by Brexit and what measures could the government take to fill these gaps?

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Videos

A series of videos that touch on issues relevant to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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Latest COVID-19 news from E&T

Get access to COVID-19 related research

Access to research on areas relating to COVID-19, respiratory viruses, ventilators and ventilator components is critical to help overcome the current crisis. Here, we’ve collated content from our journals collection and Inspec abstracts and index database alongside relevant search terms and classification codes to help guide and support research efforts. We hope you find this useful.

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A new report from India

“Voices from the ground” highlights real perspectives of the Indian workforce – not expert opinions. The world going forward will be a very different one from that which we imagined. The report looks at the areas of our focus in India – Future Technologies, Work and Mobility. If there is one take away from the year 2020, it is about building agility and resilience - as individuals, organisations and societies.

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Working through the pandemic: a view from our China office

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Automated handwashing solution that also reduces waste of water

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Spinning Reserve: alleviating social problems caused by energy sector furloughs and unemployment

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COVID-19 and Tracking Apps – Where will this end?

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Up to £25,000 awarded to 18 digital solutions to support vulnerable people during COVID-19 announced

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The engineering contribution to fighting a pandemic

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How you can volunteer

If you're an engineer wondering how you can support the fight against COVID-19 on an individual basis - we can help! In this rapidly evolving situation, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both Coronavirus and its impacts. To speed up the process of accessing the appropriate expertise, the Government are creating a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.

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Community

Our global community are discussing the engineering and technology solutions to COVID-19. If you wish to contribute to these conversations head over to our community platform.