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Put your expertise to work.

EFN is built by its members. Mentor the next generation, speak at our conferences, bring your organisation on board, help run the Forum or share your research — there is a part to play at every stage of an engineering career.

Become an EFN Ambassador Tell us how you’d like to help
A delegate stands with a microphone to put a question to the panel while the audience listens.
Fig. 1 — A question from the floor at EFN’s 11th Annual Spring Event, London, 2014.

01 · EFN Ambassadors

Mentor the engineers who come next.

EFN Ambassadors mentor young people from Black and ethnic minority groups and raise awareness of careers in engineering. It is written into our aims — and it is the most direct way to pass on what you know.

What mentoring can look like

  • Share your own route into engineering, and what you wish you had known.
  • Help young people see engineering as a career that is open to them.
  • Encourage students and graduates towards professional registration.

Our aims reach further still: to encourage and support the development of engineering skills among young people in the UK and in Nigeria.

Become an EFN Ambassador Looking for a mentor? Join as a student
A young man in Nigerian traditional attire smiles as he speaks into a microphone at the lectern.
Fig. 2 — Taking the microphone at ‘An evening with the engineers’.

02 · Speak

Take the floor at an EFN event.

Our conferences, seminars and workshops have featured Nigerian and international professional bodies and organisations. If you have expertise that could move engineering in Nigeria forward, we want to hear it.

Our flagship conference brings together the people involved in planning, researching, designing, delivering, financing and using engineered systems — so a talk reaches engineers, investors and policymakers in the same room.

On our programme

Selected
  1. 2022 Conference Renewable energy and the development prospects for Nigeria
  2. 2021 Site visit Westmill Wind Farm & Solar Park
  3. 2017 Conference Delivering, operating and maintaining Nigeria’s infrastructure
  4. 2014 Spring Event Value engineering as an effective tool for cost management
  5. Talk The future of electricity supply
  6. Talk Financing electrification projects
Offer to speak See our events
A speaker gestures as he presents “The future of electricity supply” to delegates seated on red chairs.
Fig. 3 — A talk on “The future of electricity supply”, from the EFN activity gallery.

What our events focus on

  • The industries and sectors that add value to the Nigerian economy
  • Job creation and capacity building
  • Policy that attracts investment into Nigeria
  • New methods and technology, and how to put them to work

03 · For organisations

Sponsor, host or open doors for our members.

EFN works with Nigerian and international professional bodies, government agencies and companies. Partnering puts your organisation in front of UK-based engineers, researchers and business professionals with a stake in engineering in Nigeria.

  • Sponsorship

    Sponsor the annual conference

    Put your name to our flagship conference, which brings together the people who plan, design, deliver and finance engineered systems.

  • Site visits

    Host a technical tour

    Members have toured Sizewell B and Westmill Wind Farm & Solar Park. Open your site and show engineers how it is built and run.

  • Trade missions

    Open doors to industry

    Our trade missions visit iconic projects and meet providers of cutting-edge engineering technology. Host a delegation or make an introduction.

  • Corporate membership

    Join as an organisation

    EFN has corporate as well as individual members. Talk to us about joining as an organisation.

Organisations we have worked with

  • Nigerian Society of Engineers
  • Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria
  • Niger Delta Development Commission
  • Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission
  • Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company (Nigeria) Ltd
  • WorldRemit
  • Winchester Farms
  • Kiskirine Events
Discuss a partnership Meet our partners

04 · Volunteer

Help run the Forum.

EFN’s conferences, site visits and evenings take many hands to deliver. If you can give some time, we would value your help.

Where help makes a difference

  • On the day at conferences, seminars and site visits
  • Planning the programme and finding speakers
  • Communications: news, photography and social media

Want to see who runs the Forum today? Meet the Executive Council.

Volunteer with EFN

05 · Share

Share research, news and events.

Knowledge sharing is at the heart of EFN. Send us work that members should see, and we will consider it for our news and research pages.

  • Research

    Papers and reports on engineering, energy, infrastructure and development in Nigeria.

    Send us your research

  • News

    Milestones, projects and opportunities that members should hear about.

    Send us your news

  • Events

    Events that benefit engineering in the UK and Nigeria can be listed for members.

    Post an event

Prefer email? Send research and news to admin@efn.org.uk and event listings to info@efn.org.uk.

In our own words

EFN is an open society — an organisation that encourages opinion, suggestions, topical debate and actionable activity.

Have an idea EFN should act on, or a topic worth debating? Tell us.

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Tell us how you’d like to help.

Choose what interests you and add a few lines about your experience or your organisation.

All questions must be answered unless they are marked “Optional”.

Your discipline and experience, or what your organisation has in mind.

We never share your details.

Where it goes
Your message goes to the EFN secretariat.
When we reply
We aim to reply by email within a few working days.
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Membership starts at £15 a year. Full members can take the UK route to NSE and COREN registration.

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