UN Holidays - World Youth Skills Day

The UN Assembly established World Youth Skills Day in 2014, which is celebrated around the world on July 15. Boys and girls should enter adulthood with not only a basic education, but also professional skills. This is very important because... young people are 3 times more likely to become unemployed than adults. Every fifth employed boy or girl on the planet lives below the poverty line. World Youth Skills Day is designed to draw attention to the vocational training of young people to facilitate their search for qualified work and their integration into society. During World Skills Day, various events are held that are aimed at educating boys and girls: lectures, seminars, exhibitions, trainings and other thematic activities. During the year, young people have the opportunity to undergo training at institutions providing vocational training services. This is interesting: Since 1974, in the USSR, training and production plants have been operating that helped high school students obtain a working specialty. Boys and girls learned the basics of office work and programming, studied to become car mechanics, radio equipment assemblers, cutters, hairdressers, and watch and shoe repairmen. A profession could be obtained by visiting both the UPC (Training and Production Plant) and manufacturing enterprises. To support the UN initiative to establish Youth Skills Day, the WorldSkills movement operates. It holds competitions for students and workers under the age of 22. Young people from around the world demonstrate their professional skills and achievements there. Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET is a thematic project of the movement. It provides educational institutions with a platform to obtain information about specialties that are relevant to the needs of modern society: • software developers; • graphic designers; • installers of telecommunications equipment; • specialists in robotics, mechatronics and additive technologies (layer-by-layer building of objects using 3D printers); • masters of industrial design, etc. This is interesting: Since 1940, in the Soviet Union, vocational and railway schools functioned in the Soviet Union to create state labor reserves, and factory training schools were opened. They, like universities, operated even during the war. Former schoolchildren received specialized secondary education in schools and technical schools. After graduation, the state employed graduates according to the specialty they received. Charities, foundations and social movements participate in World Youth Skills Day events. They are looking for sponsors to finance social projects aimed at overcoming unemployment and acquiring professional skills for young men and women - representatives of the most active part of the population.