By Christine Scoot, Marketing & Project Coordinator, WSI

The setting is the ‘Quality VET – a key to success’ conference in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. For the past 24 hours the topic had been about raising the quality and attractiveness in VET (Vocational Education and Training), a regularly used term within the European Union. The participants were people from ministries representing all of the member countries of the European Union. The conference was hosted by ENQA-VET (European Network for Quality Assurance) and Skolverket and was an associated event of the Swedish European Presidency.

On the second day of conference and about 1½ hour before the conclusion of the conference, four past WorldSkills Champions* took the stage, in a panel discussion, very similar to the one that took place during the WorldSkills Leaders Forum in Calgary this September, if you were one of the lucky ones to attend the session.