Around 1,150 young professionals ready for the Swiss Skills Championships
At the "SwissSkills 2022", which will open in two months at the Bernexpo site, Switzerland's best young professionals will demonstrate their skills in front of a large audience. 150 professions will be presented, more than ever before. Swiss championships will be held in 85 of these professions. Most of the 1,150 participants have now been selected.
From September 7 to 11, 2022, the grounds of Bernexpo will be transformed for the third time after 2014 and 2018 into a huge temporary stage for young talent from around 150 different apprenticeship professions. Around 1,150 of the best young Swiss professionals will offer an inspiring insight into the diversity and excellence of Swiss vocational education and training during SwissSkills 2022. The third staging of these central Swiss vocational championships had originally been planned for 2020 and had to be postponed by two years due to the Corona pandemic. This makes it all the more gratifying that the overall showcase of Swiss vocational education and training can once again take place in full.
Participants of the professions are determined
A total of around 1,150 apprentices and apprenticeship graduates will compete at SwissSkills 2022. As diverse as the SwissSkills professions are, so are the participation criteria for SwissSkills set by the respective professional associations. With the exception of a few associations that will not determine their participants until after the final apprenticeship examinations in summer 2022, most professional associations have completed the selection process.
The currently more than 850 nominated candidates will be published on the SwissSkills 2022 website at www.swiss-skills2022.ch/de/teilnehmende presented. The list is continuously supplemented with further participants.
Championship of the Professionals: A Crowd Puller
The unique format of the central SwissSkills enables the public and especially young people in the career orientation process to look over the shoulders of the country's best young professionals at work and thus experience a wide variety of apprenticeships on a 1:1 basis. In addition, the more than 60 participating professional associations offer the public attractive opportunities to try out the professions for themselves right on the spot.
Around 120,000 visitors are expected over five days. Among others, 2426 school classes with more than 60,000 students from all over Switzerland will visit the event.
Showcase for vocational training
"The Swiss vocational education and training system has proven itself extremely well, especially during the Corona pandemic, as a central pillar of Switzerland as a place to work and think, and offers young people in the country many prospects," says OC President Daniel Arn. "More than ever, SwissSkills 2022 will become the great showcase for vocational education and training. Together with all those involved and, above all, the young professionals, we will send out an important signal of new beginnings."
