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The document was drafted by the Ministry of Education and Science in
execution of Presidential and Government instructions.
The signed directive establishes the World Skills Russia Agency for the Development of Professional Communities and Labour Force, hereinafter referred to as Agency, in cooperation with the independent non-profit organisation Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
The Agency has been established by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection acting on behalf of the Russian Federation.
The Agency is authorised to represent the Russian Federation in the World Skills International organisation during preparations to submit a request for holding the World Skills Russia 2019 – National Skills Competition.
World Skills International (WSI) is an international movement aimed at popularising blue-collar worker professions, to raise the status and standards of professional training and qualification worldwide. Since its inception, the WSI has provided expert assessments, drafts and formulated top-quality global professional standards of blue-collar worker professions in the industry and the service sector.
The WSI primarily aims to organise professional competitions in various countries and to allow young specialists to display their professional skills during these events. Biannual world professional skills championships are held under the WSI’s auspices.
Russia officially became the 60th WSI member in 2012.
Russia should submit a request on hosting a world professional skills championship not later than 26 January 2015.
The
approved decision is aimed at making it possible to submit the Russian request to
host the 2019 World Skills Competition in Russia and to hold this world
professional skills competition in case of a positive decision by the WSI
General Assembly at its 11-16 August 2015 meeting in São Paulo,
Brazil.