WHAT: World Skills Africa Swakopmund 2022

WHEN: 28 March – 2^nd April 2022

WHERE: Swakopmund, Namibia.

TIME: 09:00am – 18:00hr SAT

WHO: African Union through the Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (ESTI) Department, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) in partnership with World Skills International and the German International Cooperation (GIZ) through the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) programme, which is a programme of the AUC and AUDA-NEPAD with the European Union (EU) and Government of Germany, and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)

Key speakers

Hon. Neville Andre Itope Governor – Erongo Region

H.E, Professor Mohamed Belhocine - Commissioner: Education, Science, Technology & Innovation, African Union Commission

H.E, Sinikka Antilla European Ambassador to Namibia  WorldSkills International Message

Mr. Chris Humphries President – WorldSkills International Competitors & Experts Oath

RT Hon Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila Prime Minister, Republic of Namibia

H.E, Dr. Hage G. Geingob President, Republic of Namibia

Background and Objective

WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022 (WSAS2022) is a three-tier event hosted by WorldSkills Namibia in partnership with WorldSkills International and the African Union. It includes a Skills Competition, a Careers Exhibition, and a TVET Conference.

The TVET Conference is to take place at “The Dome” in Swakopmund, under the theme: “Promoting Skills Development in the 21st Century for Sustainable Economic Growth and African Ownership”. It offers an excellent engagement platform for policymakers, industry, and TVET experts. Local, regional and international TVET experts are to engage conferencegoers by means of topical presentations as per the themes hereunder. The overarching purpose of presentations is to generate knowledge, share experiences, benchmark, and innovate.

Media Information Pack

• The WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022 Media Room is located on the fifth floor in the Orange Executive Room.
• The media room provides journalists and media practitioners with the latest information, images, downloads and relevant links, as far as the event is concerned. Photos or videos downloaded through the cloud solution are to be credited with the following statement: “Photos and footage by WorldSkills Africa. All rights reserved. Used by permission”.
• Journalists and media practitioners wishing to cover the two events are to be accommodated on the media room balcony on the fifth floor, from where they will have an unobstructed view of the main stage. No journalists, will be allowed on the guest floor for the duration of the two events.
• Opening Ceremony on 28 March 2022, as well as the Closing Ceremony on 2 April 2022. Coverage for both events start at 18:00. (Time Zone: Central African Time (UTC +2)). The live broadcasts of the two ceremonies are accessible to Namibian audiences via the NBC1 television broadcast channel. Subscriber viewers in countries forming part of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) will also be able to watch these live broadcasts on Multichoice’s terrestrial DsTV platform on Channel 282.
• For continental/international media houses, access to these broadcasts can be made available upon request via a Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) feed, which is supplemented by a dedicated Cloud service (20 terabytes capacity), making it possible to share a high-quality feed with about 100 media houses/journalists, at any given time. Participating countries who have arranged for access to the RTMP feed should be able to relay this television feed via their national broadcasters to television audiences in their respective countries. Media houses and/or journalists interested in accessing the RTMP feed for this purpose, should contact the Namibia Training Authority’s Communications Specialist, Jethro Kwenani at mobile, + 264 81215276, or email, jkwenani@nta.com.na
• Further streaming access is also possible for paid subscribers through the NBC’s Mobile Application ‘NBC Plus’, downloadable from both the Android and Apple app stores.

Ms. Faith Adhiambo, Communications officer, Agenda 2063 | Information and Communication Directorate | African Union Commission
Tel: +251 115 517 700 | E-mail: ochiengj@african-union.org | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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