WeRskills project recommendations: skills competitions deliver value for money

Abstract

WeRskills Project Recommendations include different aspects of vocational education and focus on five areas of expertise. They are a result of the project entitled WeRskills – informational and consulting platform supporting the process of acquiring talents to participate in skills competitions at national and European level. The project was run in the international partnership of Polish, Hungarian and Cyprian institutions which advocated that skills competitions are instruments to innovate vocational education programs in order to meet the European needs of today. WeRskills Project proposed an enhancement strategy to support the process of acquiring talents to participate in skills competitions at the national and European level and raise the attractiveness of VET. With this publication we would like to inspire vocational teachers and trainers as well as training providers and employers to use skills competitions as a means to boost the structural development of talents and excellence in VET. The first part of the WeRskills recommendations was published in “Journal of Continuing Education” (3/2022), while the following article demonstrates that vocational skills competitions have a number of benefits, including financial ones.

Keywords

• skills competitions
• vocational education programs
• young professionals
• cooperation among sectors
• benefits