Vocational Education and Training (VET) is the future!
WorldSkills Sweden’s initiatives lead more people to discover the benefits of vocational education and training (VET).
Our mission is to increase the attractiveness, status, and quality of vocational education. We encourage people to choose their education based on their interest and strengths rather than traditional gender roles or stereotypes.
Through skills competitions and the participation of the National Skills Team in international championships, we showcase strong examples of professional expertise.
We support schools with important and relevant material about professions and vocational education. We also highlight dedicated individuals and good examples within vocational training.
We organize the Swedish National Skills Competition (Yrkes-SM) and support the National Skills Team’s participation in WorldSkills and EuroSkills competitions; i.e. in the World and European championships when it comes to skills.
We collaborate with industry and schools, and we run information campaigns aimed at young people and newly arrived immigrants. We also participate in fairs and Open houses for upper secondary/high schools to spread the message that vocational education is a smart choice.
WorldSkills Sweden is a tripartite initative between the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv), and the Swedish government.
The Swedish government participates through the Ministry of Education (Utbildningsdepartementet), the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), and the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education (Myndigheten för yrkeshögskolan).
In addition to our initiatiors we collaborate with industry organizations, vocational committees, schools, and companies.
Where the most skilled youth in Sweden compete to be the best young professional in their vocation!
Every team member is a young professional in their different fields but each of them are a specialist in their own trade. They are important ambassadors for Swedish vocational education; both in Sweden and abroad.
EuroSkills competition lets Europe’s most skilled young professionals compete in their different vocational field for the chance to become the most skilled young in Europe in their profession.
The WorldSkills competition is one of the world’s largest events and where competitors compete to be crowned the best young professional in the world in their vocational field!
Our ambassadors inform kids in secondary school about the benefits of VET and it’s a smart choice for their future. They are role models for the kids to identify with and former competitors in the Swedish National Skills Team.
We conduct two surveys every year that measures and follow the attitude towards VET. One survey measures the attitude of the Swedish public at large and the other measures the attitudes of ninth graders in Sweden.
YourTalant is aimed towards secondary school students and seeks to expand their knowledge of different professions and broaden their perspective on their future education.
YourSkills provides information about vocations and skills (VET) to people who have moved to Sweden from abroad. We do this through videos, illustrations and social media advertisements.
At one time or another, the vast majority of professionals have thought about changing career. Career Switching informs people how they easily can do so into a vocational career.
The Jobs Tournament (Yrkeskampen) is a fun contest that seeks to expand 8th graders’ knowledge about skills and VET and inspire them to think about their future through activities focused on VET and with hands-on assignments highlighting different vocations.
We have several projects that aim to highlight the importance of vocational teachers. Both to raise the professional pride of current vocational teacher but also to inspire more professionals to start to teach.
Guides are available for schools for various lessons concerning the role of different occupations in society, myths about upper secondary school selection and preparations for work experience and traineeships. These popular lesson guides are available in several languages.
