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There's just under six weeks to go until WorldSkills Lyon 2024! 🎉 What are you most looking forward to at the 47th WorldSkills Competition in Lyon, France 🇫🇷 this September?! Dario Walcott, Technical Delegate for WorldSkills Barbados 🇧🇧, is eager to experience the 'strong sense of national pride' that happens at Opening and Closing Ceremonies. "At WorldSkill Lyon 2024, I am most looking forward to seeing and feeling the different emotions experienced across the Competition, and especially a strong sense of national pride as I watch my team walk in with the Barbados flag at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies," - Dario Walcott, Technical Delegate for WorldSkills Barbados. Leading up to Lyon, we'll be sharing a few quotes from some of the Competitors, Experts, Partners and more participants, counting down to the world's biggest showcase of skills excellence. Get all the Competition details: https://lnkd.in/e-NqhJH2 #WSC2024

How can we rethink and design policies to dismantle the persistent gender gaps in the world of work? Policymakers, industry leaders and skilled youth will explore this question at WorldSkills Conference 2024 this September in Lyon 🇫🇷—one of many sessions happening at this unmissable skills conference! "Policymakers have an important role to play in ensuring conditions are fair by developing and enforcing policies that promote gender equity, such as equal pay legislation and anti-discrimination laws," says session moderator Kathryn Rowan, Executive Director of GAN Global Apprenticeship Network. Breaking Stereotypes: Building gender equity in skills, is a highly anticipated session taking place on 11 September 2024 at 11:30 – 12:45 (GMT+2) at #WorldSkills Conference 2024 in Lyon, France, alongside WorldSkills Lyon 2024. Panelists include: - Rainer Iveson, Director of L'Oréal for Youth, Global - El Iza Mohamedou, Head of Centre for Skills at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD - OCDE) - Shae White, #WorldSkills Champions Trust representative for the Americas - Kathryn Rowan, Executive Director of Global Apprenticeship Network This session will look at ways policymakers can rethink and design TVET and sectoral policies to break the entrenched gender gaps in the world of work. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER FOR THE UNMISSABLE SKILLS EVENT OF THE YEAR: https://lnkd.in/gmCeMumS #WSC2024

MAKE YOUR MARK WITH #WORLDSKILLS! Apply to join the 2025-26 WorldSkills Champions Trust! WSCT Representatives bring the youth voice to some of our most important global skills conversations—speaking on panels, debating issues, touring the world to promote WorldSkills Competitions and events, and creating engaging social media content to encourage careers in skills. We are looking for Champions who competed at WorldSkills Kazan 2019, WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition, and WorldSkills Lyon 2024 to join this group of global skills advocates. Applicants do not have to have won a medal to apply—all Competitors are Champions! The application period runs 1 August to 10 October. We can't wait to hear how you plan to make your mark with us! Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gs92dU4z Together, #WeAreMakingOurMark!

July included World Youth Skills Day celebrations, revealing the Top 15 finalist teams in #BeChangeMaker 2024, more reasons to register for WorldSkills Conference 2024 (#WSC2024) taking place this September in Lyon, and stories of skilled young people making their mark around the world! Catch up with #WorldSkills news in our monthly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gkaB6kWM

From online banking to cloud storage of personal documents, many of our day-to-day tasks are shifting online. And as our digital behaviours increase, so do the cyber risks. That is why industries are turning to skilled young people like Kai Baharthah-King, a WorldSkills Australia 🇦🇺 Champion in Cyber Security, who uses his skills to identify and counter cyber threats. Kai was just 16 when he was offered a role as a Security Analyst at a global energy firm, following a personal recommendation from his lecturer. He became the youngest analyst on the team. He will no doubt draw on his exceptional technical and life skills when he competes with other talented Champions from around the world at WorldSkills Lyon 2024, the 47th WorldSkills Competition in Lyon 🇫🇷 this September. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gbQ88d_S #WSC2024 #WorldSkills

Louise, a skilled mechanic from Australia 🇦🇺, has become what she describes “the person she needed when she was younger.” She believes girls and women need more visible female role models to encourage them to consider skilled trades, especially in industries facing significant skills gaps or are traditionally seen as “masculine trades.” Louise is sharing her experiences with women in traditionally-male trades, through one-on-one coaching, workshops, a Facebook community called “Tradeswomen Owning Their Power” and a podcast “Anxious Tradeswomen.” By playing an active role in dismantling the barriers that women face and showing that they belong, and can thrive, in the same professional spaces as men, Louise is Making a Mark in her community and industry. Learn more about Louise and other skilled young people around the globe making an impact through skills: https://lnkd.in/g65-6rNV Together, #WeAreMakingOurMark! #WorldSkills WorldSkills Australia

How is WorldSkills Conference 2024: Moving TVET to the Top of the Global Agenda different than past skills conferences? David Hoey, CEO of #WorldSkills International shares a few reasons why you must attend this unmissable skills event, including what sets it apart from anything you’ve been to before: “WorldSkills Conference 2024 feels different because, collectively, we are dealing with so many new or interconnected challenges – conflict, climate breakdown, rapid digitization, cultural polarization, and the widening of socioeconomic gaps. Our world has never felt so uncertain… we are living with unprecedented levels of insecurity. With such high levels of anxiety, I understand that change feels hard, and even impossible. Yet WorldSkills Conference 2024 is tackling these challenges head on. All our Members are facing these same overwhelming challenges and are looking to our skills community for solutions. WorldSkills Conference 2024 is the place to find them.” See the full Q&A, session and speaker details and REGISTER for WorldSkills Conference 2024 taking place in Lyon, France 🇫🇷 11 to 12 September alongside WorldSkills Lyon 2024: https://lnkd.in/gAcW-Aat Got more questions about the Conference? Leave a comment or contact: [email protected] #WSC2024

Seamstress Laurence Racine from Canada 🇨🇦 is making her mark in the circus industry 🎪—where her designs are seen on stage by thousands of people at each show, delighting and inspiring circusgoers from all over the world. Laurence credits #WorldSkills competitions with helping her believe in her abilities and become more confident. She sees her skill as a creative way to tell stories, which can change perspectives and challenge people to think and grow—a common theme for shows today. Young people like Laurence are transforming lives, industries, and communities through skills. WATCH the video and read this profile to learn more about how Laurence and other young people around the globe are making a mark through skills: https://lnkd.in/d27GGtve Together, #WeAreMakingOurMark! Skills / Compétences Canada

Congratulations to the Top 15 #BeChangeMaker 2024 social entrepreneur programme finalists! 🎉 30 teams participated in a tense live pitch for judges last week, who scored based on five criteria to determine a Top 15 that will now proceed to do a second online pitch at the end of July. The Top 15 finalist #BeChangeMaker2024 teams come from around the world including Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Nigeria, Lebanon, Argentina, Yemen, Malaysia and more—with impactful social business ideas that involve telemedicine, volunteerism, conservation, sustainability, women's initiatives and more. Only five final teams will progress to the final stage of the programme, which includes a live pitch as part of WorldSkills Conference 2024 and the 47th WorldSkills Competition WorldSkills Lyon 2024 in Lyon, France. Learn more about the Top 15 teams and their ideas: https://lnkd.in/g5PZgPYc The BeChangeMaker programme is presented by #WorldSkills and HP LIFE, supported by UNESCO-UNEVOC. This is the eighth year of the annual programme, which received a record-breaking number of applications.

As participants from across the globe prepare for WorldSkills Lyon 2024 this September, South African 🇿🇦 Competitor Kai Petersen is putting in the hours to make sure he is ready. Kai lives with a hearing impairment and is on the autism spectrum. But his disability and neurodivergence hasn't held him back. Kai turned them into what he calls skills superpowers. With a single-minded focus on excelling in his skill of Car Painting, Kai has been able to harness his abilities to their fullest and turn his passion into his profession! Ahead of the 47th WorldSkills Competition, Kai is putting all this focus, tenacity, and determination into preparation, practising his skill “non-stop." Learn more about Kai and wish him and all Competitors good luck! https://lnkd.in/gYjr8kyU Together, #WeAreMakingOurMark! #WSC2024