SwissSkills 2022 launches entrepreneurship as a new discipline
The EntrepreneurSkills competition will be held for the first time at SwissSkills 2022 in Bern. The best Swiss team in entrepreneurship will be selected. Young professionals who have entrepreneurial ambitions or ideas in addition to their training can now register for the competition.
Entrepreneurship, i.e. thinking and acting like an entrepreneur, is increasingly finding its way into education programs. To promote initiative and entrepreneurial understanding, entrepreneurship is to be systematically introduced in basic vocational education in Switzerland. The focus here is on implementation in general education classes, anchoring the topic in the school curricula for which the cantons are responsible, and further training for teachers. The corresponding pilot course is currently underway in various language regions of Switzerland (Bern, Solothurn, Valais, Ticino). These efforts are supported by SERI, but are still far from reaching their goal, as entrepreneurship is only being taught to around 10 percent of all learners in Switzerland at the end of the pilot project.
Interest group wants to promote entrepreneurship at SwissSkills 2022
In order to additionally promote entrepreneurship and make it visible, various organizations have founded the IG EntrepreneurSkills. These include the Vocational Training Center Olten BBZ, the GZS Gründungsdienstleistungen Kanton Solothurn, the Swiss Directors' Conference SDK and the umbrella organization of UAS graduates FH SCHWEIZ. The IG is chaired by National Councilor Andri Silberschmidt.
The IG EntrepreneurSkills organizes the competition discipline Entrepreneurship at the SwissSkills 2022. This will also give the Swiss access to this discipline at the EuroSkills and WorldSkills. Internationally, competitions in entrepreneurship are already being held today - but until now without the participation of teams from Switzerland. "Our goal is to identify the young professionals who show above-average performance and initiative and to offer them a competition that opens the door to the big world," says Andri Silberschmidt.
Young people with entrepreneurial spirit wanted
As of now, teams can register for the selection days, which will take place in spring in all parts of the country. We are looking for people born in 1999 or younger who are completing an apprenticeship, have already graduated, or are studying at a university of applied sciences or higher technical college. Anyone who likes to work creatively on solutions, has business ideas or wants to realize their entrepreneurial potential can register by February 28, 2022. On the selection days, eight teams from all language regions of Switzerland will qualify for the final days at SwissSkills in September 2022. In a competition lasting several days, business models will be developed and presented to a jury of experts at SwissSkills 2022. The winning team can call itself "Swiss Champion:in Entrepreneurship".
All information about the new competition discipline Entrepreneurship and the registration for the selection days are available on www.entrepreneurskills.ch to find.
