They are young, often still students, but they already know how to work, in most cases very well. Faro will host between May 7th and 10th the National Championship of Professions, which will bring together 240 young people between 17 and 25 years old, in competition. 43 professions will be represented, from the more traditional ones, such as carpentry, to those linked to new technologies, such as robotics.
This competition will serve to choose the Portuguese representatives in the European and World Professions championships, the Euroskills and Worldskills, where Algarve representatives have recently achieved good results. In 2010, the student of the Hotel and Tourism School of the Algarve Milene Nobre stood out in the Euroskills and won a medal of Excellence.
The initiative has already spread to more than 58 countries, but it was born in the Iberian Peninsula, in the 50s. Portugal and Spain organized a championship that gave rise to the European competition and, later on, the world. Our country was also the founder of World Skills International, which organizes these events.
Em Faro, 190 experts and 35 chefs will also be present, who will supervise the competition. To accommodate all the necessary tests, 6 square meters of workshop spaces will be made available. About 6 visitors are expected, coming from schools in the region.
Knowledge and training centers, from professional schools to universities, are at the base of this championship. It is here that the first selection of candidates is made, who then compete at a regional level to qualify for the national championship. And it is not even mandatory to always compete in the same category, such as Desidério Correia, one of the Algarve's representatives in the 2012 national championship.
The 21-year-old young Algarvian won the last National Championship in the carpentry category and represented Portugal in London, at Worldskills, in 2011. This year, he returns to compete, but as an installer of solar panels, a course he currently attends at the Training Centre. Fat Sand.
The competition is divided into 6 general categories, which encompass several professions within themselves: Creative arts; Management and Information Technologies; Production, Engineering and Technology; Social, Personal and Tourism Services; Civil Construction and Public Works; and Transport and Logistics.
In tests, candidates must prove that they know how to develop a product and/or service in 22-hour tests. These tests, according to the organization, serve to “foster quality, excellence and innovation”.
Entry to the National Professions Championship is free and open to the general population.
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