EuroSkills winners to receive lump sum

College students and graduates who represented Moscow as part of the Russian national team will receive lump sum payments for winning in the European championship of young professionals, EuroSkills, in line with a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Moscow Government Presidium.

The payments will be equal to those of the WorldSkills competition of vocational skills − one million roubles for gold medallists, 500,000 for silver medallists and 250,000 for bronze winners.

The international championships, EuroSkills Budapest 2018 took place from 25 to 29 September in Budapest. Teams from 29 countries took part, competing in 41 skills.

For the first time ever, Russia’s national team won the EuroSkills competition, both in terms of score and medals. It collected nine gold, eight silver and two bronze medals, winning more medals than England and France and more points than Austria and Hungary.

Muscovites made up a third of the national team. Fourteen Moscow contenders competed in 12 skills, gaining seven medals overall – two gold, four silver and one bronze.

The gold medals went to Vitaliya Yakovenko, (Hotel Administration competence), a student at Moscow College of Administration, Hotel Business and Information Technologies “Tsaritsyno” and Alexandra Valuikina (Graphic Design competence) from Ivan Fyodorov Moscow Publishing and Polygraphic College.

The runners-up were: Nikolai Donchak (Light Vehicle Maintenance and Repair competence), a student at polytechnic college No 8 named after twice Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Pavlov; Nikolai Larionov (Heavy Vehicle Maintenance competence), a student at the college of modern technologies named after Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Panov; and Yelizaveta Shkimbova (Floristics competence) and Vitaly Bondarenko (Joinery competence), both from the College of Architecture, Design and Reengineering No 26.

The bronze medal went to Nikolai Golikov (Furniture Manufacturing competence), a student at Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts.