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Skills Masters 2011
Skills Masters is the annual Dutch national skills event for VET students, young skilled people and jobseekers. Trades, education programmes and jobs: you can find it all at Skills Masters on 15, 16 and 17 march 2012!
Make your talent work!
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Skills Talents 2011
In cooperation with colleges for pre-vocational education (vmbo) and training and adult education (mbo), Skills Netherlands organises on 15, 16 and 17 march 2012 skills competitions for secondary vocational students in their final year. The skills competitions are named Skills Talents and present students a major opportunity to show off their talents. VET students show your talent!
WorldSkills Competitions
Every two years hundreds of young skilled people, accompanied by their teachers and trainers, gather together from around the world to compete before the public in the skills of their various trades and test themselves against demanding international standards. Team Netherlands consists of young skilled champions, who represent the best the Netherlands has to offer. They will be present at WorldSkills 2011!
EuroSkills 2012
EuroSkills, the largest skills event of Europe, is the biennial European championship for craftmanship. At EuroSkills hundreds of young skilled people compete in different specialisms for the title of 'best professional of Europe'. The European championships for skilled labour starts 4 october 2012 in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. See www.euroskills-team.nl for more information about Team the Netherlands (from the 2010-team).
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Dates & Events
| 5 - 10 October 2011 | WorldSkills 2011 | London, United Kingdom |
| 4 - 6 October 2012 | EuroSkills 2012 | Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium |
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What do we do?
The Netherlands needs skilled people. That is why Skills Netherlands, as the official representative of WorldSkills International and WorldSkills Europe, promotes the importance of skills and vocational education. An important tool to realise this mission, is the development and organisation of various events and skill competitions. With these activities, Skills Netherlands aims at three goals, namely image improvement, talent development and career orientation and coaching (LOB).
Image improvement: Vocational education and craftmanship do not always get the recognition they deserve. By promoting their importance, we're trying to improve the image these disciplines have on a national and international level.
Talent development: Everybody has got a certain talent. The hard part however, is to discover which talents you've got and what you can do with them. Skills Netherlands helps young (gifted) people to uncover those talents and develop them further.
Vocational and job orientation: When you know what talents you posses, the time comes when you need to decide what you're going to do with them. Choosing the right occupation, with a matching education, is not an easy thing to do. Skills Netherlands helps young people make hard decisions like these.
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