Parliamentary Secretary for Sport, Recreation and Voluntary Organisations Clifton Grima, together with the Chamber of Engineers, launched the campaign ‘Engineer Your Career’ to attract society, particularly students and youths to the engineering profession.
Parliamentary Secretary Clifton Grima said that the engineering career paves the way to numerous lines of work, and in and of itself is a tool that may improve a product, system, or process. Thus, ‘Engineer Your Career’ means that engineering serves as a tool to improve one’s career, allowing them to grow through continuous development. Indeed, this is a very dynamic career.
The parliamentary secretary concluded that communicating the Chamber of Engineers’ vision is a good example of how one can make good use of VOPS; to deliver projects that will improve the position and the future of the profession, in this case, Engineering.
Chamber of Engineers President Ing. Malcolm Zammit explained that this campaign means that engineering can also be your career; the student who fascinates himself with science and technology who wishes to improve the environment around him through his career.
He added that in 2019, the Chamber for Engineers implemented a project financed by the same scheme for voluntary organisations. This project involved research titled ‘Engineering Education in Malta: Paving the Way for Future Industry’ and was aimed at understanding the reason behind the decrease in Engineering students and graduates observed in the previous years; a phenomenon which is being observed in other European countries too. The Chamber then felt the need to contribute and create this campaign.
The ‘Engineer Your Career’ campaign will continue to reach wider audiences through the Chamber’s digital platforms and eventually it will reach other media through further collaborations. These put the Chamber of Engineers in a better position to promote careers in the field of engineering and will be of greater support to students interested in the subject.
The Chief Executive of the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector, Mauro Pace Parascandolo noted that voluntary organisations find vital support from financing schemes that allow them to implement projects which give back to society and promote further collaboration between voluntary organisations and public entities.
The ‘Engineer Your Career’ project is financed by the Voluntary Organisations Project Scheme under the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector and its potential is already drawing the interest of other entities which hold education and STEM subjects close to heart.
