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The Partnership Grants scheme is designed to help all schools access funding to carry out an investigative long term research project in collaboration with a STEM partner. Read more on how the new streamlined application form and the various types of support are going to help you secure this funding.

Students from Northfleet Technology College visited Parliament to ask questions and share their exciting research with a mock select committee of MPs, as part of the Tomorrow’s climate scientists programme funded by the Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme.

People did not expect much from the delayed Montreal Conference on Biodiversity (COP15), so the framework agreed by 196 countries should be recognised as a success - and a step forward.

Through the Royal Society Partnership Grants scheme, schools are being funded to design and carry out their own STEM research projects together with STEM professionals. This scheme is designed to help students develop crucial skills, ignite their curiosity and open new horizons of future career paths in STEM. Find out more about how you could apply and hear from Craigentinny Primary School and their STEM partners about their Partnership Grants experience working with students to design and construct their own sustainable model city.

Teacher Michael Jones from Northfleet Technology College shares how thanks to the equipment acquired through the Royal Society’s Partnership Grant and guidance provided by their STEM partners his students were able to observe and investigate the fascinating wildlife and plants of a nearby Nature Reserve.

Teachers Meryl Batchelder and Mark Swinney from Corbridge Middle School share their Tomorrow’s climate scientists project in which student are studying the impact of heavy rainfall events. The students are developing their STEM skills by investigating solutions based on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) which can be used to prevent urban flooding.

Vice-President of the Royal Society, Professor Peter Bruce, considers what is needed to meet net zero emissions targets.

Professor Dale Sanders FRS, Director of the John Innes Centre, discusses the challenges of building a sustainable, healthy and equitable food system.

Throughout our history environmental problems have contributed to collapses of civilizations.