Enterprising Science to bring the subject to life

King's College London, in partnership with the Science Museum and BP, has today launched Enterprising Science , the largest UK-wide science learning programme of its kind. The five-year partnership will bring together the expertise, experience and research of all three organisations to inspire and engage more young people in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) learning and careers to help ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of science, technology and innovation. Enterprising Science will be underpinned by research led by King's, part of the ASPIRES study of children's science and career aspirations. This will support the development of effective, evidence-based tools and techniques that will bring science to life like never before for young people, their teachers and families, both inside and outside the classroom. Young people will be at the heart of the project and up to 2,000 teachers and up to 400,000 students will be involved in piloting these new resources during programme development. The programme will also build on the success of the Science Museum and BP's previous five-year Talk Science project. The Government acknowledges the value of science and engineering to the economy and the programme will help address two key challenges - according to Ipsos MORI ('Issues Facing Britain', April 2013), the health of the economy and unemployment consistently rank as the top two concerns for people in the UK.