SwissSkills

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SwissSkills
purpose Promote the implementation and further development of professional championships in Switzerland and enable young professionals to participate in international professional championships (WorldSkills, EuroSkills).
Chair: Reto Wyss (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
Executive Director: Ueli Müller (General Secretary)
Establishment date: 1953
Number of members: Confederation, cantons and organizations in the world of work
Seat : Sursee
Website: https://www.swiss-skills.ch

SwissSkills is an organization founded in 1953 - today in the form of a foundation - which promotes professional championships in Switzerland and enables young professionals to participate in the international professional championships WorldSkills and EuroSkills and promotes their own competitions in Switzerland. Today it is supported by the federal government, the cantons and all relevant organizations in the world of work.

SwissSkills, as a brand of the swissskills foundation, is also the name of the central Swiss championships for non-academic professions from the craft, industry and service sectors (central Swiss championships for teaching professions ).

Tasks and organization

SwissSkills, in close cooperation with its network partners, promotes the implementation and further development of professional championships in Switzerland and enables young professionals to participate in international professional championships (WorldSkills, EuroSkills). Three individual goals are formulated:

  • Promote the excellence of professional practice
  • Enable the diverse experience of jobs
  • Help to promote the image of apprenticeship in Switzerland and to strengthen its reputation.

The foundation is the umbrella organization. Two associations are responsible for the operational tasks:

  • SwissSkills Marketing & Events association , which takes on all marketing & events that are fully privately financed. The SwissSkills Board of Trustees also forms the board of this association
  • SwissSkills Bern association as an independent association that has received the rights to host the national championships in 2014, 2018 and 2020. He is supported by SwissSkills Marketing & Events. The board consists of representatives of the cantonal social partners and the canton of Bern. It was founded in 2011, but was not entered in the commercial register until 2017.

The foundation promotes professional championships as an opportunity for a motivated and highly qualified generation of young professionals. According to the study, The Top 200 young professionals from Margrit Stamm , professional competitions help to increase the quality of vocational training and to improve the vocational training system on a sustainable basis.

history

In 1953, Switzerland took part for the first time with 4 participants in the 3rd WorldSkills , which took place in Madrid in 1950 and 1951 and was known in German as International Professional Competitions (IBW). Before it was a competition only for Spain and Portugal, participants from Germany, Great Britain, France and Morocco also took part.

As the number of participants grew steadily, a committee for professional competitions was founded by employee and employer organizations in the early 1960s.

In 1968 the international vocational competitions (17th Wordldskills) took place for the first time in Switzerland, in Bern at the trade school. Again in 1997 (34th World Skills) and 2003 (37th World Skills) (on the premises of the OLMA in St. Gallen )

In 1980 the “Swiss Foundation for International Professional Competitions” was renamed as the central institution for the coordination of national championships and participation in international championships. In 2002 the company was renamed to SWISSSCOMPETENCE. In 2009 the foundation will be restructured and renamed SwissSkills due to international requirements. A SwissSkills initiative will be launched in 2017. The SwissSkills Foundation, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), the Swiss Employers' Association (SAV), the Swiss Trade Association (sgv) and from the private sector UBS and Ringier (media partners) form a public-private partnership. The aim is to promote Swiss vocational training even more and to make its advantages and opportunities better known.

In 2014 there were the first central Swiss professional championships in Bern, more in 2018 and the next in 2020.

Competitions

World Championships Worldskills

At the "world championships" WorldSkills , Switzerland has been participating 1,953th Since 1997, with the exception of 2001, Switzerland has always been the best nation in Europe in the nations' ranking and has taken first place twice, second five times and third twice. 39 young professionals competed in the 2019 competitions in Kazan . With 5 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze medals as well as 13 medals for excellence, Switzerland took third place behind China and Korea in terms of the number of participants. In terms of average medal points, she came fourth behind China, Russia and Korea.

European Championships EuroSkills

Swiss citizens have also been taking part in the EuroSkills European Championships from the beginning of 2008. In 2016, Switzerland took first place in the national ranking. In 2018 in Budapest, Switzerland achieved third place with only 8 participants, 4 gold and 2 bronze medals and 2 medals for excellence.

National professional championships

In addition, national professional competitions are sponsored and organized annually. So far, they have been carried out centrally in Bern as SwissSkills three times, and also for different professions in different locations.

In the run-up to SwissSkills 2014, Federal Councilor Johann Schneider-Ammann stated that due to the demographic development, training positions with high requirements are increasingly difficult to fill and school leavers with deficits have trouble finding a place. In addition to the integration tasks, the promotion of high performers in vocational training is a central concern. These championships are intended on the one hand to demonstrate the diverse professional life of Switzerland and to interest school leavers in it - on the other hand to give the best performers the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in competitive form.

SwissSkills 2014

The first central Swiss professional championships, SwissSkills 2014, were held in Bern at the end of October 2014, organized by a project group led by Michael Stocker on behalf of the Canton of Bern and supported by the participating organizations from the world of work, the SwissSkills Foundation and the Federal Department of Economics and Education and Research WBF . 70 championships, 130 professions in total with demonstrations, around 1000 participants were the benchmarks.

SwissSkills 2018

The second central Swiss professional championships SwissSkills 2018 were also held in Bern in 2018. SwissSkills 2018 was organized by the SwissSkills Bern association on behalf of the SwissSkills Foundation and the SERI ( State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation ). 76 professional competitions and 60 professional demonstrations took place with 907 participants in the competitions. 715 experts were available. The number of visitors was around 120,500. In contrast to regular job fairs or shows, 135 apprenticeships were presented and made tangible under authentic working conditions. The majority of the professions could be tried out by the visitors.

SwissSkills 2020

Due to the great success of both central SwissSkills in Bern, it is planned to repeat this every two years. SwisSkills 2020 will again take place in Bern from 9 to 13 September 2020 and will be organized by the SwissSkills Bern association on the Bernexpo site . Around 1,000 participants are expected to take part in more than 75 apprenticeships. Qualification for this is possible through the individual professional associations, if necessary through regional advertisements or application processes. The best of SwissSkills will then have the opportunity to represent Switzerland at Worldskills or Euroskills.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tasks and organizations on swiss-skills.ch
  2. ↑ SwissSkills foundation organizations on swiss-skills.ch
  3. ↑ Foundation of SwissSkills Bern: registered on July 4, 2017, but the club's goal is to prepare for the Swiss Professional Championships in 2014
  4. ↑ Margrit Stamm: The top 200 young professionals - What is behind medal winners at professional championships. Research institute Swiss Education Bern, February 8, 2017, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Review of swiss-skills.ch
  6. ↑ Ranking list of nations ranking Worldskills since 1997 on swiss-skills.ch
  7. ↑ Results Worlsdskills 2019 on worldskills.org
  8. ↑ EuroSkills nation ranking on swiss-skills.ch
  9. ↑ Member Results Comparison Euroskills 2018 on euroskills2018.com
  10. ↑ Ranking lists of the Swiss championships on swiss-skills.ch
  11. ↑ SwissSkills Bern 2014 speech from Johann N. Schneider-Ammann , Federal Councilor, Head of the Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research EAER from April 26, 2013
  12. ↑ SwissSkills Bern 2014: Opening speech by Federal Councilor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, Head of the Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  13. ↑ SwissSkills Bern 2014 folio The magazine of the BCH / FPS No. 04/2014
  14. ↑ Circular of the sgv on the organization of SwissSkills Bern 2018
  15. ↑ Parliamentary initiative of the Canton of Bern Financing concept for the SwissSkills in Bern on September 20, 2017
  16. ↑ Final report SwissSkills 2018 on swiss-skills.ch
  17. ^ Job lists in German, French and Italian
  18. ↑ Review of SwissSkills 2018 on swiss-skills.ch
  19. ↑ Results SwissSkills 2018 on swiss-skills.ch
  20. ↑ Bern will also be the venue for the SwissSkills announcement from the Department of Economics of the Canton of Bern in 2020
  21. ↑ SwissSkills 2020 website at swiss-skills.ch