Worldskills flag arrives in Germany
The WorldSkills Flag Relay comes to Duisburg. This is the second leg of the international leg of the Relay.
During the ceremony, the participants put logos of all WorldSkills Competitions that previously took place in Germany — in Duisburg (1961), Munich (1973), and Leipzig (2013).
The ceremony also featured a presentation of the upcoming WorldSkills Kazan 2019, which will take place in the capital of Tatarstan in August next year. WorldSkills Competitions bring together the best professionals around the world to compete for the title of WorldSkills Champion in more than 50 Skills.
The WorldSkills Flag Relay kicked off last year. With all the honours and celebrations, the Flag was handed over to Kazan, the host city of the WorldSkills Competition 2019, during the Closing Ceremony of WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017. After that it was delivered to Sochi and officially transferred to the Flag Relay project. In December 2017, the Flag flew to the International Space Station (ISS), where it spent more than two months. After the ceremony, the Flag starts its new journey and visits all 20 countries that have ever taken part in the WorldSkills Competitions.
The international leg of the WorldSkills Flag Relay kicked off in Madrid on 12 March, the city that played stage to the first ever WorldSkills Competition in 1950.
Then the Flag will travel to Ireland, the USA, Belgium, South Korea, the UAE, Chinese Taipei, Finland, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, and Japan.
After the international leg, the WorldSkills Flag will travel to Russia: 85 regions of the country, including 43 municipal districts and 2 cities of the Republic of Tatarstan. The relay is scheduled to culminate in Kazan on the day of the WorldSkills Kazan 2019 Opening Ceremony.