The Organization
WorldSkills International is a not for profit membership association open to agencies or bodies which have a responsibility for promoting vocational education and training in their respective countries/regions. WorldSkills provides a unique means of exchange and comparison of world-class competency standards in the industrial trades and service sectors of the global economy. Its mission is to promote, through the cooperative actions of Members, a worldwide awareness of the essential contribution that skills and high standards of competence make to the achievement of economic success and individual fulfillment.|
WorldSkills Mission
"To promote, through the cooperative actions of Members, a worldwide awareness of the essential contribution that skills and high standards of competence make to the achievement of economic success and individual fulfillment." |
Objectives of WorldSkills International
- Market WorldSkills by drawing on the global efforts of Member organizations.
- Position the WorldSkills Competition as the premier world event for skills recognition and advancement.
- Develop a new modern identity and a flexible structure to support the global activities of WorldSkills.
- Develop strategic partnerships with selected corporate, government and non-government organizations to further the aims of WorldSkills
- Disseminate information and share knowledge about skill standards and WorldSkills performance bench-marks, especially via the World Wide Web
- Facilitate networking among WorldSkills experts to develop new opportunities for skills development and innovation
- Encourage the transfer of skills, knowledge and cultural exchange between participants in WorldSkills and other young people across the world.
To achieve these objectives WorldSkills:
- Challenges young people, their teachers, trainers and employers to achieve world class standards of competence in commerce, services and industry, and promotes the status of vocational education and training.
- Conducts WorldSkills Competitions in alternate years.
- Promotes the exchange of ideas and experience in vocational education and training through seminars, meetings and competitions.
- Disseminates information on world class standards of competence.
- Seeks to motivate young people to pursue further education and training relevant to their careers.
- Facilitates communication and contacts between vocational education and training organisations around the world.
- Encourages the exchange of young professionals among the Members.
WorldSkills has a global presence with member from across the world actively contributing in taking the Skills mission forward. Members of WorldSkills are a body representing a vocational education and training system of the country/region's commerce, services and industry. Only one representative body per country/region is recognized as a member.
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