Our Work
Host Bid Support
Skills-Set Ltd can support those countries that are considering hosting an international skills competition with their bidding application. Skills Set offers specialist advise to ensure that any bid submitted is not only robust to internal stakeholders but can also positively differentiate from any other countries competing to host the same international competition. * Offered only if they is no conflict of interest with other ongoing services
Learning Assessment
Skills-Set Ltd can provide specialist assessment for young people and adults with a variety learning difficulties and thereafter develop appropriate coping strategies that will improve the individuals own learning and development performance. We can identify and provide strategies for young people that have dyslexia,dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD.
Integrated
Management
Skills-Set Ltd is an authority on Skills Competitions, from their set-up through to managing and governing them. It provides its service primarily to international competitions organisations where its personnel can be fully embedded into their organisation and /or the host team. We support on technical, operational and governance aspects of delivering these high profile events whilst seamlessly acting as a bridge between the numerous stakeholders that are involved, enabling all parties to meet their objectives.
Performance
Development
Skills-Set Ltd and its appointed associates can provide bespoke development programmes or consultancy for those organisation and/or members involved in international skills competitions helping to build their capacity and quality of their own national skills competition provision. Skills Set can also support and facilitate a “step-change” in the competition performance of the team of young people that participate in these international skill competitions.
Our World
WorldSkills International
- Founded: 1950
- Members : 87
- Skills Operated : > 50
- Age Limit: 22 (with some skills at 25)
WorldSkills is a global movement that organizes competitions and initiatives to promote vocational, technological, and skilled trades
education. Founded in 1950, WorldSkills aims to raise the profile and recognition of skilled professionals and tradespeople worldwide.
The organization provides a platform for young people to showcase their skills, compete against their peers from around the world, and
demonstrate excellence in various vocational fields.
WorldSkills Europe
- Founded : 2007 - Members: 33 - Skills Operated: > 35 - Age Limit : 25 Through the provision of a suite of Skills Competitions for young people WorldSkills Europe promote excellence in vocational education, standards and skills whilst highlighting the true value of vocational careers across Europe. WorldSkills Europe international skills competition is called EuroSkills a biennial international skills competition covering activities across six key industrial sectors and hosted, in turn, by one of the WorldSkills Europe member countries. Skills Competitions may be at the heart of WorldSkills Europe activity but their overarching purpose is to be the catalyst for boarder and more impactful improvements to European countries vocational systems, industry and economies.
WorldSkills Asia
- Founded: 2016 - Members: 29 - Skills Operated: >20 - Age Limit: 22 Skills Asia is dedicated to promoting the essential role of skilled work and professional training in empowering young individuals. Recognizing the pivotal impact on industries, regions, and countries in the global economy, the organization actively advocates for the value and results derived from a skilled workforce. In pursuit of its mission, WorldSkills Asia collaborates closely with educators, policy makers, industry stakeholders, and various organizations. Through these partnerships, the organization seeks to redefine the perception of skills, emphasizing their significance and potential for fostering economic growth. The collective efforts aim to enhance the attractiveness of skills, making them more appealing to the younger generation and the broader community.
About Us
International Skills Competitions
There are several member based organisations that facilitate international Skills competitions that are held around the world to showcase and inspire
excellence in the skills of young people. They all share a similar mantra being to promote, to future generations of young people and those that
influence them, the value of taking-up vocational pathways and careers. They all set out to showcase the skill standards needed across a range of
sectors so that industry and education establishments can understand what is really required to be globally competitive or competitive within their
own geographical region of the world. They all help to lift the image of vocational education and careers helping them to be valued equally and
alongside those more academic routes. International Skills Competitions is the work arena to which Skills-Set Ltd operates.
Many countries themselves organise and operate their own national skills competitions catering for a wide range industry sectors. They often use their
own national skills competitions to excite their own youth and stakeholders to the value of vocational education and careers. Many use them to
identify their country’s best competitors who can then go on to compete internationally either on a geographical regional basis and /or on a world
platform.
Although all these international competition organisations share the same main visual identity, being that of “WorldSkills” each is an independent
organisation with its own board and management structure. Saying this, many individuals and members who are involved in one competition
organisation may also have roles within another. The WorldSkills or WorldSkills International organisation is positioned as the lead organisation with
other organisation seen as regional derivatives of it.
From humble beginnings
Skills-Set Ltd was established in 2006 as an organisation specialising in teaching functional and key skills in Maths, Literacy and IT for post 16 students and apprentices. Since 2015 its business profile expanded to providing specialist and integrated management services to international organisations that deliver high profile skills competitions events.
Improving performance
Skills-Set Ltd, provides it own staff but also facilitates an extensive network of professionals that can be assembled to suit the clients specific competition developments needs. This covers every aspect, from setting up and participating at any international skills competition, delivering ever increasingly team performance whilst maximising the return knowledge that will benefit the wider vocational educational system back in their own country.
Expert Readiness
Skills-Set Ltd, through it own specialist staff and network provides extensive international competition experience and knowledge which comes from a background and track record of practical and successful delivery. We provide bespoke readiness competitor and expert training, performance psychology, assessment comprehension, competition rules interpretation, scenario training, understanding competition nuances, competition processes and procedures and competition role mentoring.
Bidding Support
If a country is thinking of hosting an international skills competition then Skills-Set Ltd offers advanced guidance and support ensuring that your bid is robust meeting internal stakeholder demands whilst providing you with the materials to ensure that you can positively differentiate your bid from any other countries that may also be challenging to host the same event in the same competition year.
Enabling Skills Excellence
OTHER REGIONAL WORLDSKILLS SKILLS COMPETITIONS
There have been other WorldSkills regional skills competitions but some no longer operate, do not operate regularly or now have been almalagmated into other regionals
WorldSkills Americas
WorldSkills Americas was officially founded in 2008. It serves as the regional arm of WorldSkills International specifically for countries in North, Central, and South America. However, this regional event has stalled ever since the organisation Senai in Brazil, indicated that it would no long take the lead in organisation the event.
WorldSkills ASEAN
WorldSkills ASEAN was founded 2014 and ran for 13 times with the last one occuring in 2023 being hosted by Singapore. It covered countries in the Southeast Asian region and had 10 member countries. It is now unclear if this regional worldskills competition will continue futher given that many of the same countries have become members of WorldSkills Asia. A WorldSkill member country can only belong to one regional worldskills competition.
WorldSkills GCC
Founded in 2017 WorldSkills GCC serves countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Many of the countries involved in this regional competition now have joined WorldSkills Asia and therefore it ongoing future is uncertain. This regional competition was coordinated out ACTVET in the UAE.
WorldSkills Oceania
WorldSkills Oceania has only operated once in 2015 and hosted by New Zealand. It had some 100 competitors coming from 7 different countires but it was only New Zealand and Australia that were from the Oceania region.
Our Work
Host Bid Support
Skills-Set Ltd can support those countries that are considering hosting an international skills competition with their bidding application. Skills Set offers specialist advise to ensure that any bid submitted is not only robust to internal stakeholders but can also positively differentiate from any other countries competing to host the same international competition. * Offered only if they is no conflict of interest with other ongoing services
Learning Assessment
Skills-Set Ltd can provide specialist assessment for young people and adults with a variety learning difficulties and thereafter develop appropriate coping strategies that will improve the individuals own learning and development performance. We can identify and provide strategies for young people that have dyslexia,dyscalculia, dyspraxia and ADHD.
Integrated Management
Skills-Set Ltd is an authority on Skills Competitions, from their set-up through to managing and governing them. It provides its service primarily to international competitions organisations where its personnel can be fully embedded into their organisation and /or the host team. We support on technical, operational and governance aspects of delivering these high profile events whilst seamlessly acting as a bridge between the numerous stakeholders that are involved, enabling all parties to meet their objectives.
Performance Development
Skills-Set Ltd and its appointed associates can provide bespoke development programmes or consultancy for those organisation and/or members involved in international skills competitions helping to build their capacity and quality of their own national skills competition provision. Skills Set can also support and facilitate a “step-change” in the competition performance of the team of young people that participate in these international skill competitions.
Our World
WorldSkills
International
- Founded: 1950
- Members : 87
- Skills Operated : > 50
- Age Limit: 22 (with some skills at 25)
WorldSkills is a global movement that organizes
competitions and initiatives to promote
vocational, technological, and skilled trades
education. Founded in 1950, WorldSkills aims to
raise the profile and recognition of skilled
professionals and tradespeople worldwide. The
organization provides a platform for young
people to showcase their skills, compete
against their peers from around the world, and
demonstrate excellence in various vocational
fields.
WorldSkills Europe
- Founded : 2007 - Members: 33 - Skills Operated: > 35 - Age Limit : 25 Through the provision of a suite of Skills Competitions for young people WorldSkills Europe promote excellence in vocational education, standards and skills whilst highlighting the true value of vocational careers across Europe. WorldSkills Europe international skills competition is called EuroSkills a biennial international skills competition covering activities across six key industrial sectors and hosted, in turn, by one of the WorldSkills Europe member countries. Skills Competitions may be at the heart of WorldSkills Europe activity but their overarching purpose is to be the catalyst for boarder and more impactful improvements to European countries vocational systems, industry and economies.
WorldSkills Asia
- Founded: 2016 - Members: 29 - Skills Operated: >20 - Age Limit: 22 Skills Asia is dedicated to promoting the essential role of skilled work and professional training in empowering young individuals. Recognizing the pivotal impact on industries, regions, and countries in the global economy, the organization actively advocates for the value and results derived from a skilled workforce. In pursuit of its mission, WorldSkills Asia collaborates closely with educators, policy makers, industry stakeholders, and various organizations. Through these partnerships, the organization seeks to redefine the perception of skills, emphasizing their significance and potential for fostering economic growth. The collective efforts aim to enhance the attractiveness of skills, making them more appealing to the younger generation and the broader community.
About Us
International Skills
Competitions
There are several member based organisations
that facilitate international Skills competitions
that are held around the world to showcase and
inspire excellence in the skills of young people.
They all share a similar mantra being to
promote, to future generations of young people
and those that influence them, the value of
taking-up vocational pathways and careers.
They all set out to showcase the skill standards
needed across a range of sectors so that
industry and education establishments can
understand what is really required to be
globally competitive or competitive within their
own geographical region of the world. They all
help to lift the image of vocational education
and careers helping them to be valued equally
and alongside those more academic routes.
International Skills Competitions is the work
arena to which Skills-Set Ltd operates.
Many countries themselves organise and
operate their own national skills competitions
catering for a wide range industry sectors. They
often use their own national skills competitions
to excite their own youth and stakeholders to
the value of vocational education and careers.
Many use them to identify their country’s best
competitors who can then go on to compete
internationally either on a geographical regional
basis and /or on a world platform.
Although all these international competition
organisations share the same main visual
identity, being that of “WorldSkills” each is an
independent organisation with its own board
and management structure. Saying this, many
individuals and members who are involved in
one competition organisation may also have
roles within another. The WorldSkills or
WorldSkills International organisation is
positioned as the lead organisation with other
organisation seen as regional derivatives of it.
From humble
beginnings
Skills-Set Ltd was established in 2006 as an organisation specialising in teaching functional and key skills in Maths, Literacy and IT for post 16 students and apprentices. Since 2015 its business profile expanded to providing specialist and integrated management services to international organisations that deliver high profile skills competitions events.
Improving performance
Skills-Set Ltd, provides it own staff but also facilitates an extensive network of professionals that can be assembled to suit the clients specific competition developments needs. This covers every aspect, from setting up and participating at any international skills competition, delivering ever increasingly team performance whilst maximising the return knowledge that will benefit the wider vocational educational system back in their own country.
Expert Readiness
Skills-Set Ltd, through it own specialist staff and network provides extensive international competition experience and knowledge which comes from a background and track record of practical and successful delivery. We provide bespoke readiness competitor and expert training, performance psychology, assessment comprehension, competition rules interpretation, scenario training, understanding competition nuances, competition processes and procedures and competition role mentoring.
Bidding Support
If a country is thinking of hosting an international skills competition then Skills-Set Ltd offers advanced guidance and support ensuring that your bid is robust meeting internal stakeholder demands whilst providing you with the materials to ensure that you can positively differentiate your bid from any other countries that may also be challenging to host the same event in the same competition year.
Enabling
Skills
Excellence
OTHER REGIONAL
WORLDSKILLS SKILLS
COMPETITIONS
There have been other WorldSkills regional skills competitions but some no longer operate, do not operate regularly or now have been almalagmated into other regionals
WorldSkills Americas
WorldSkills Americas was officially founded in 2008. It serves as the regional arm of WorldSkills International specifically for countries in North, Central, and South America. However, this regional event has stalled ever since the organisation Senai in Brazil, indicated that it would no long take the lead in organisation the event.
WorldSkills ASEAN
WorldSkills ASEAN was founded 2014 and ran for 13 times with the last one occuring in 2023 being hosted by Singapore. It covered countries in the Southeast Asian region and had 10 member countries. It is now unclear if this regional worldskills competition will continue futher given that many of the same countries have become members of WorldSkills Asia. A WorldSkill member country can only belong to one regional worldskills competition.
WorldSkills GCC
Founded in 2017 WorldSkills GCC serves countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Many of the countries involved in this regional competition now have joined WorldSkills Asia and therefore it ongoing future is uncertain. This regional competition was coordinated out ACTVET in the UAE.
WorldSkills Oceania
WorldSkills Oceania has only operated once in 2015 and hosted by New Zealand. It had some 100 competitors coming from 7 different countires but it was only New Zealand and Australia that were from the Oceania region.
