SkillsGermany e.V. is an initiative founded by the Print Media
Academy and 15 other German companies in order to bring together
all national and international skills competitions under one
overall concept and to provide a stronger foundation for this in
Germany.
The initiative SkillsGermany will strive to ensure that the
German vocational education system will continue to be represented
on the international stage. The international platform, on which
the professional skills of trainees worldwide can be compared,
standards can be set and conclusions can be drawn is WorldSkills.
Securing young talent is at the heart of all activities.
Skills competitions motivate and drive the participants to maximum
performance. The national skills competitions want to show young
people early on the opportunities that are open to them. They also
want to whet their appetite for technology and encourage high
achievement during their education.
SkillsGermany wants to contribute to a rapid start to further
preparations for the national skills competitions that will also be
the knockout competition in the run-up to WorldSkills 2007 in
Japan. The goal of the German team is to perform even better than
in Helsinki. Moreover, SkillsGermany wants to bring the media and
world event WorldSkills back to Germany after 30 years and has
submitted at least one bid for 2013.
International Platform WorldSkills
The WorldSkills competition takes place every other year, the
last one was held in Helsinki in May 2005. Around 800 young people
from 40 countries had the opportunity to show their professional
competences in 34 official competitions and five demonstration
categories in the fields of technology, industry, crafts and
services to 120,000 visitors in the course of the four-day event.
The German trainees were the third best of all participating
countries. The silver medals in the mechatronics and printing
categories went to Germany - which just goes to show that the
initiative is on the right track.
Homepage SkillsGermany e.V.
Contact SkillsGermany e.V.:
Festo Didactic GmbH & Co. KG
Elfi Klumpp Rechbergstraße 3
73770 Denkendorf
Tel.: +49 (0)711 34 67 14 06
Fax.: +49 (0)711 34 67 54 14 06
E-mail:
info@skillsgermany.de