Join us on 15 July for World Youth Skills Day

WorldSkills International is very proud to be part of a global recognition and promotion of World Youth Skills Day. The United Nations, at its General Assembly in November 2014, declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day.

The UN designated day seeks to generate greater awareness of and discussion on the importance of technical, vocational education, and training and the development of other skills relevant to both local and global economies. It is hoped that it will contribute to reducing unemployment and underemployment among the youth across the globe. It will highlight youth skills development to draw attention to the critical need for marketable skills. WorldSkills will support this globally important topic via the broad spread of activities and initiatives in our six focus areas all aimed at raising the profile and recognition of skilled people, and showing how important skills are in achieving economic growth and personal success. Inspiring, educating, and developing youth is an integral part of this.

In its inaugural year, WorldSkills will initiate activities that introduce World Youth Skills Day to its global network and to the public. In future, we plan to develop annual activities with more sustainable impact and involvement from Members, international agencies, partners, and communities-in-need.

Join us in promoting the first ever World Youth Skills Day! Use the hashtags: #wysd #worldskills so we can see all your activities and responses to the campaigns.

www.worldskills.org/WYSD