World Skills

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World Skills is a Tournament International Professional Education promoted by International Vocation Training Organization (IVTO) held every two years since 1950.

Among its main objectives are:

  • Promote the exchange between young professionals from various regions of the world;
  • Exchange of skills, experience and technological innovations;
  • Awaken the spirit in professional sports.

The young professionals who compete in this tournament are selected by their respective countries. Besides may only participate once this tournament, the competitors should have chosen a maximum of 22 years.

It is awarded to the best professionals in the tournament, medals, gold, silver and bronze, and certificates of excellence (to competitors who achieved over five hundred points).

"Knowledge is finite. Is the imagination that involves the world."

Sentence of Albert Einstein said during the World Skills 2005, Helsinki, Finland.

"Nobody is so great that it can not learn, nor so small that it can not teach."

Quoted phrase during World Skills 2005 .

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[edit] History

In 1946, given the need for skilled workers in the Spain, the then Director-General of the Organization of Spanish Workers (OJE), Sr. Anthony Elola Olaso, realized it was necessary to create an effective system of professional training.

The idea of Olaso became a project in the hands of Antonio Almagro and Faustino Ramos, Director of the Center for Work, and awakened interests of agencies and companies where the most important centre for training Spanish, "Virgin of La Paloma," the idea embraced.

The first National Competition held in Madrid, the Spanish capital, was a success. Attended four thousand apprentices.

But the idealizadores wanted more. They wanted to promote tournaments that salientassem competitions, showing the different levels of skill and ability of persons from other countries.

By having greater affinity, Latin American countries were invited to create an International Competition. No effect. But Portugal if interested.

In 1950, with twelve young skilled in Portugal and Spain, there was the 1st World Skills, the first international competition of vocational training.

[edit] All Tournaments

Promoted for more than half a century, World Skills is currently held every two years. The next tournament, in its edition fortieth, occur in 2009, in the city of Calgary, Canada.

ALL EDITIONS
YEAR LOCAL YEAR LOCAL
2009 Calgary, Canada 1971 Gijön, Spain
2007 Shizuoka, Japan 1970 Tokyo, Japan
2005 Helsinki, Finland 1969 Brussels, Belgium
2003 St. Gallen, Switzerland 1968 Bern, Switzerland
2001 Seoul, South Korea 1967 Madrid, Spain
1999 Montreal, Canada 1966 Utrecht, Netherlands
1997 St. Gallen, Switzerland 1965 Glasgow, Scotland
1995 Lion, France 1964 Lisbon, Portugal
1993 Taipei, China 1963 Gijön, Spain
1991 Amsterdam, Netherlands 1961 Duisburg, Germany
1989 Birmingham, England 1960 Barcelona, Spain
1988 Sydney, Australia 1959 Modena, Italy
1985 Osaka, Japan 1958 Brussels, Bégica
1983 Linz, Austria 1957 Madrid, Spain
1981 Cork, Ireland 1956 Madrid, Spain
1979 Busan, South Korea 1955 Madrid Spain
1977 Utrecht, Netherlands 1953 Madrid, Spain
1975 Madrid, Spain 1951 Madrid, Spain
1973 Munich, Germany 1950 Madrid, Spain

[edit] Benefit to competitors

"For those who like to compete, the World Skills is a great challenge, but for me what it is worth is the same recognition."

Rafael Sansão, former student of SENAI - Campinas, formed in CNC milling, silver medal in the World Skills 2007, in Shizuoka, Japan.

Although this is a competition, the World Skills no losers, but great examples of dedicated professionals in search of its limit, in pursuit of consecration.

Besides the title and medals of gold, silver and bronze, the tournament which rewards the professionals in their respective areas back to these young people a broader view of their profession and job opportunities coveted.

[edit] Arrangements current in the World Skills

  • Application of Coating
  • Cerâmico
  • Hairdresser
  • Wood
  • Woodworking of Roof
  • Confectionery
  • Building in Masonry
  • Building in Structures
  • Steel
  • Construction on roofs
  • Metallics
  • Female Costureiro
  • Cozinheiro
  • Care Beauty
  • Graphic Design
  • Electricity Industry
  • Electricity Predial
  • Electronics
  • Encanador
  • Entalhador in stone
  • Florista
  • Garçon / Service Restaurant
  • Manager of Resources
  • Computing / PC Network Support
  • Printing
  • Infrastructure Network and
  • Telecommunications
  • Landscape Garden
  • Joalheria
  • Lanternagem / Funilaria
  • Integrated Manufacturing
  • Marcenaria
  • Auto Mechanics,
  • Mechatronics
  • Painting of Car
  • Painting and Decorating
  • Polimecânica
  • Case Assistido by Computer (DAC)
  • Refrigeration
  • Soldagem
  • Information Technology / Application Software
  • Technology of Transportation
  • Usinagem the CNC
  • Web Design

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