Since 2012, nearly 6,000 young people have practiced as engineers at Volvo, Ericsson, Sandvik or another employer in the technology sector, according to the report from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Iva).
Up to and including autumn 2020, 92 percent of the trainees had continued with university studies within a couple of years. Most trainees, 71 percent, had started a technical education. Almost half (48 percent) of these were women.
Of the technology leapfrogs who went on to a technical education, 90 percent are still in their studies after two years, and thus have not dropped out. Dropouts are otherwise quite common among engineering students. Among all civil and university engineering students, 84 and 78 percent, respectively, remain after two years.
“Iva’s follow-up shows that the Tekniksprånget is a unique and important activity that causes more young people to become engineers. We can also see that it contributes to increasing the proportion of women at the technical universities and colleges,” says Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Iva member and steering group chairman for the Technology Leap, in a press release.