All eyes were on the European Championship of Young Professionals in the first week in September this year, with young participants from 32 countries journeying to Gdańsk (Poland) to demonstrate their skills and expertise in more than 40 professions.
Team Austria led the field with seven gold medals, six silvers and five bronzes, and also netted a further nine “Medallions of Excellence” for exceptional achievements.
This was yet another highly successful EuroSkills showing after the Championships in Budapest in 2018 (21 medals) and Graz in 2021 (33 medals), and Austria has now won almost 150 awards throughout the history of the competition.
The next generation of Austrian professionals are thus clearly the overall winners of 2023’s competition, and the honours are shared by Austria’s dual education system, in which apprentices follow parallel training courses in companies and at vocational schools.
ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA congratulates all the Austrian participants and in particular the medal-winners for their success!
The next EuroSkills are to be held in Herning (Denmark) in 2025, and next year will see the world’s finest talents heading to France – not just for the Summer Olympics, but also for WorldSkills 2024 in Lyons.
