WorldSkills Sponsor Partnership

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WorldSkills Sponsor Partnership

• Presentation to
• (Name of person - company)
• (date)

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Contents

• Our history
• Our vision and mission
• Our principles
• Our objectives
• Our structure
• Our Members
• The Competitions
• WorldSkills Leaders Forum
• Our future
• Benefits for Sponsor Partners
• Benefits for WorldSkills
• Our Proposal

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Our history

• First Iberian skills competition Spain Portugal
  1950
• First international skills competition 1952- 5
  members
• St. Gallen 37th WorldSkills competition 2003-
  37 members
• Helsinki 2005
• Japan 2007..

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Our Vision
Promoting skills across the world
Our Mission

• Act together
• to promote the awareness world-wide
• of the essential contribution
• of skills and high standards of competence
• to achieve economic success and personal
  fulfillment.

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Our principles

• Small
• Smart
• Simple

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Our objectives

• Conduct the WorldSkills competition every two
  years
• Promote exchange of ideas / experiences in VET
• Benchmarking
• Motivate young people to pursue further education
  relevant to their careers
• To facilitate communication and contacts between
  VET organizations around the world
• Encourage the exchange of young professionals
• (VET Vocational Education and Training)

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Our structure
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Our Members

• Existing Members
• Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
  Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France,
  Hong Kong, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Korea,
  Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Marocco, Macau,
  Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand,
  Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden,
  Singapore, Thailand, Tunisia,Tyrol (Italy),
  Taiwan, UAE, UK, USA
• Newest Members
• Saudi Arabia, Venezuela

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The Competitions

• 37 member countries
• 40 trades (from carpentry to web design)
• Still growing
• Future oriented competitions

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A new WorldSkills property

• WorldSkills Leaders Forum
• It was decided in Auckland in March 2002 to
• develop a forum which will become the premier
  global meeting point on the issue of youth and
  skills development
• prepare for an initial Leaders Forum in St Gallen
  2003

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WorldSkills Leaders Forum

• Skill-related issues that concern us all
• St. Gallen 2003 - try out
• China 2004 - step up
• Helsinki 2005 - full scale

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Our future - WorldSkills 5 years from now

• Competitions
• WorldSkills Competition every 2 years
• 45 members
• Regional competitions have gained much more
  importance
• Leaders Forum
• regional and national events feed the annual WSLF
  
• the Leaders Forum is a key event in the skills
  calendar
• Website
• is a standard site first choice for information
  on skills-related issues
• Network
• Active membership communication through
  WorldSkills

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Benefits for Sponsor Partners

• What are sponsors looking for?
• Growth
• Access to powerful professional networks in key
  sectors
• Access to specific markets / target groups
• New member countries
• Effective PR
• Skill Competitions
• WorldSkills Leaders Forum
• Website
• Continuity - security of investment
• Access to worldclass skilled people, their
  teachers, and employers
• Identification with Young People building careers
  and enterprises

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Benefits for WorldSkills

• What is WorldSkills looking for?
• Spin-off from commercial and industrial practice
• credibility
• professionality
• input for competitions
• Access to powerful corporate networks
• Continuity
• Partners to develop new properties
• Cash

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Our Proposal

• Outline terms of the proposed Agreement
• Agreement for an initial 2 years (2003 2004)
• Sponsorship USD50,000 (USD25,000 per year)
• Rights
• status as a Founder Sponsor Partner
• Right of veto on new sponsor partners
• Member of the Advisory Group to the WorldSkills
  Executive Board
• makes recommendations to the Executive Board on
  sponsorship and PR issues
• elects an ex-officio representative to the
  Executive Board
• Exclusive sponsorship use of the WorldSkills logo
• A title sponsor of the WorldSkills Leaders Forum

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