Central Swiss team wins Swiss Skills championships
Lucerne/Bern - A three-person team from Central Switzerland has been crowned the winner of this year's SwissSkills vocational entrepreneurship championships. The budding businessmen from Lucerne and Nidwalden impressed the judges with their idea to promote cycling.
Three businessmen in vocational training from Nidwalden and Lucerne have won the final of this year's SwissSkills Entrepreneurship competition. Leonardo Soares Sousa, Marlon Liam Mathieu and Alessio Lovatello impressed the judges with their business idea, which promotes the use of bicycles for short journeys. The EntrepreneurSkills interest group announced the results in a statement. It organised the competition in partnership with the Gerbert Rüf Foundation, Initiative Switzerland and other partners from business, science and politics.
This year, the 19 finalists were tasked with developing a business idea that promotes healthy living in cities and regions, thereby supporting one of the United Nations sustainability goals. The challenge took place at the BAM vocational training trade fair in Bern from 5 to 8 September. The participants competed in eight teams and were faced with challenges such as shooting a short film or developing a marketing campaign. Each day's results were assessed by coaches, with the three-member jury joining in on the last day. The awards ceremony took place on 8th September.
The silver medal was won by three budding electronics technicians: Nico Reist, Sven Moser and Marlon Schaad, from Solothurn and the Basel region. Third place went to Kiran Felice De Simone, a young businessman from Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau, and Adrian Valentino Teske, a computer scientist in vocational training from Oberengstringen in the canton of Zurich.
