Applicatons will open in January 2021. If you would like to be notified by email when the registrations open, please sign up to our list at the bottom of the page.
In order to apply for the STEPS EYF 2020 programmes you must be a current Transition Year student, permanently resident in Ireland.
Unfortunately, STEPS Engineering Your Future is for Transition Year students only. Applications will not be accepted from 5th year students.
Please follow this link to see the list of available programmes.
Email is our favourite form of communication, it’s our primary way for communicating with you, your parents/carers and teachers. You need to apply with an email address that belongs to you, we recommend you use a Gmail address. Please don't use a shared email account, such as your parent's email address. The address you use is your official email address in our system, and we will use it to send you important information.
Please note if you sign into Survey Monkey Apply for your application using your google account it will automatically assign the name on your account which may not be your actual name and may cause confusion at a later stage.
STEPS is not involved in selecting the students to attend individual programmes. This decision is made by the STEPS EYF Programme coordinators and canvassing will disqualify. Students are asked to submit a short (200 word) report stating why they would like to attend the programme.
The programme incurs costs such as administration, preparing activities etc..
The EYF Programmes take place over 3, 4 or 5 days. For 2021, all programmes will take place online only. Programmes will include interactive talks, virtual labs, workshops and more. Programmes will run for approximately 2-3 hours per day in sessions of approx 45 minutes to One hour. Full schedules will be sent to all who are accepted on a programme in advance of the dates.
We will send out a notice after the application stage is closed to let you know when you can expect to hear about the programme. Usually first round offers to the programmes are sent out within a month of applications being closed and then second round offers will be a few weeks later.
No, unfortunately not, the STEPS EYF programme are usually all oversubscribed. However we do keep a waiting list for programmes
You will get an offer via email with full instructions on how to accept your offer. The process involves filling in an acceptance form, ensuring your TY Coordinator and Parent/Guardian also fill in short online forms and making a payment where applicable.
If you have received an offer and do not wish to attend you will need to log in and choose ‘I will not be accepting my place’ or alternatively email steps@engineersireland.ie to let us know you will not be attending.
Details of all programmes for 2021, including dates, can be found here.