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World Youth Skills Day
For every apprentice learning a trade.
Next: July 15, 2027
Where it comes from
World Youth Skills Day was Sri Lanka's idea. The proposal for a UN day on young people's skills was raised at the UN General Assembly in 2013, and in May 2014 young people and ministers meeting at the World Conference on Youth in Colombo called on the UN to create one.
How it's celebrated
UNESCO, the International Labour Organization and the UN mark the day with events in New York, Paris and Bonn, and dozens of UNESCO-UNEVOC centres around the world hold their own, from exhibitions and talks to youth skills competitions and panel debates.
Did you know
The first international skills contest, the start of today's WorldSkills Competition, was held in Madrid in 1950 between 12 young Spanish and 12 young Portuguese apprentices.
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