Kazan bids for holding international championship of working professions - 2019
24 July 2012, Tuesday
Kazan may host the international championship of working professions in 2019 (championship of professional skills WorldSkills), Deputy Minister of labour, employment and social protection Klara Tazetdinova informed at a briefing at the RT Government House.
She noted that Kazan got the opportunity to host the championship when Russia became a full member of non-commercial international organization World Skills International (WSI) on May 17, 2012.
WSI delegation comprised of 10 people led by President of the international movement WorldSkillsInternational Simon Bartley will arrive in Kazan tomorrow with a two-day visit.
The delegation is going to meet Tatarstan leadership, visit IT-park to see the presentation of republic’s economic potential and Kazan as the candidate city bidding for the right to host championship of professional skills WorldSkills in 2019.
Guests will also visit the college of small business and entrepreneurship, Kazan Federal University, Universiade Village, Tennis Academy and other sport venues.
Reference: WorldSkillsInternational (WSI) is an autonomous non-commercial organization engaged in raising the status and standards of professional training and qualification around the world. WSI’s main activity is organization of contests of professional skills WorldSkills in different countries every two years. 60 countries are now members of the organization. WorldSkills is an opportunity to demonstrate one’s professional skills, a place to share experience, an incubator of innovative ideas and a place where employers can find young talented workers. On May 17, at the WSI’s general assembly in Southern Korea (Jeju Island) Russia was proclaimed the 60th member of the international organization.
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials