Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in meeting with representatives of WorldSkills International in Moscow

On March 24, during his working visit to Moscow, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a meeting with representatives of WorldSkills International (WSI) held by Russian President Vladimir Putin. President of the WSI Simon Bartley, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government Olga Golodets and other officials took part in the event.

The meeting took place during an inspection tour by the WSI international movements commission to access Russia’s preparedness for holding the WorldSkills Competition in 2019.

On Putin’s instruction, Russia submitted its bid to host the International competition in professional skills in January 2015. If Russia’s bid wins, the competition will take place in Kazan.

We will treat preparations for these events very seriously – if, of course, Kazan is selected to host the events, Putin said.  “Because increasing the prestige of vocational professions is directly tied to the development of the economy, which is one of our highest-priority objectives,” he concluded.

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Worldskills is an international non-commercial movement established in 1950 to promote trades’ prestige and develop vocational education. The movement currently brings together 72 countries. Russia joined in May 2012 and has held two national championships since then, the trade-related Worldskills Hi-Tech championship for young specialists at big Russian companies and students at corporate and state educational establishments, and 46 regional competitions. The tradespeople who took first place in the Russian competition went on to take part in the international competitions in Leipzig (Germany) in 2013, and Lille (France) in 2014.