ALBANIAN SKILLS
ALBANIA
Albanian Skills – National Association for Skills Competitons, named Albanian Skills is an independent, national association without any economic intentions. It is its strong belief that a country’s functioning economy necessarily needs well-skilled and qualified professionals in addition to theoretically educated academics. Therefore, in Albanian Skills they are also convinced that a good education system must be built on a strong system of vocational education and training. The NGO aim is to promote and support skills Albanian Skills promotes and supports young Albanians to become decent and skillful workforce for future in Albania through introduction of new ways of promoting skills, creation of conditions / opportunities for the young talented people to prove, improve and build more decent and smarter career with the power of skills and through facilitation and supporting the exposure of young skilled & talented Albanians to international learning, skilling and working standards. And thereby, improve the recognition and status of vocational education and training in the Albanian society. For this purpose, they annually organize National Skills Competitions in Albania, Skills Week, Albanian Girls in ICT Academy, Career Guidance for Albanian Youngsters Academy, sectorial competitions and hackathons, such are Sustainable Ideation Tourism Hachkathon”, “Show Your Talent” in fashion and leather design, “AgroTech Hachkathon”, etc.
The vision and mission of Albanian Skills team is to be developed as the unique national hub for skills, join the family of WorldSkills and EuroSkills and bringing young talented Albanians to WorldSkills Competitions as the unique opportunity for the country to influence excellence in VET systems, Labour Market and Private Sector Engagement in addition to the implementation of many initiatives and Erasmus+ projects focussing skills, VET , emplybility, excellence etc.
