The Olympic Games in Paris are over – now another French metropolis is taking center stage: Lyon will host the 47th WorldSkills from September 10 to 15, 2024. The WorldSkills Championships will bring together more than 1,500 young people from over 65 countries and regions to compete in 62 competitions.

Electromobility, artificial intelligence and sustainability - the economy is in the midst of industrial transformation. In addition to the right automation solutions, qualified specialists are the key to success. With digital learning opportunities as well as seminars and further training, Festo Didactic offers a modern portfolio for lifelong learning in a professional environment.

Seeds are the new gold. Why is that? Plant-based foods can feed an ever-growing world population. But climate change, pests and diseases threaten plant breeding. To help develop resistant seeds and make them available to agriculture, plant breeders need vast amounts of DNA. That is precisely why Synchron Lab has developed the "DNA factory", which is automated with handling gantries, electric axes, pneumatic grippers and sensors from Festo.

In Europe, Germany's mechatronics experts are simply top: at the European Skills Championship EuroSkills Gdańsk 2023 in Poland last September, Daniel Schmid and Timo Oßwald, both apprentices at Festo, won the gold medal in the skill mechatronics. They thus completed the extremely successful record of the German national team, which came second behind Switzerland in the 'Best of Nations' ranking in 42 trades.

BZEE et Festo Didactic renouvellent leur collaboration de longue date pour offrir des conseils et des ressources d'apprentissage pour soutenir les prestataires de formation dans la formation de techniciens éoliens qualifiés afin d'accélérer la transition vers les énergies renouvelables. L'accord de coopération entre le BZEE (Centre de formation pour les énergies renouvelables) et Festo ...

"La pénurie de travailleurs qualifiés est un défi pour les entreprises en Europe. Nous devons investir beaucoup plus dans l'éducation et la formation. C'est pourquoi je propose de faire de 2023 l'Année européenne des compétences", a déclaré la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen. Le point culminant de cette année des ...

On site and hands-on: At the Hannover Messe, visitors on the Festo booth can use all their senses experience comprehensive learning environments. Highlights of the product portfolio in the field of education and training will be on display – from the digital learning portal Festo LX and virtual reality learning to product innovations in the field of learning systems with cobots, AI and the digital twin.

Les lois sur la protection du climat ainsi que l'explosion des prix de l'énergie obligent l'industrie à devenir plus efficace sur le plan énergétique et durable. Cela peut s’apprendre. Comment ? Par exemple, avec les solutions d'apprentissage de Festo Didactic pour l'enseignement des compétences vertes. Les stagiaires, les étudiants et les employés les utilisent pour ...

After the cancellation of WorldSkills 2022 in Shanghai due to COVID-19 restrictions in China, new opportunities came up for the WorldSkills competition: The WorldSkills Competition 2022 Special Edition will be held decentralized in 15 countries. Germany benefits directly from this: 9 of 62 competitions will take place in Germany, three of them in Stuttgart, at the beginning of October parallel to the Motek and Vision industrial trade fairs. This gives ...

Si vous voulez être prêt pour l'industrie 4.0, il vous faut un bon programme. Le programme I4.0 combine une grande variété de parcours d'apprentissage que Festo Didactic a développés pour la formation et la formation continue dans un contexte industriel, comme pour le métier de mécatronicien. L'apprentissage flexible de Festo Didactic permet également aux personnes dans la vie ...

Finally, live on-site and hands-on: At Hannover Messe, visitors to Festo's Stand C22 in Hall 6 can once again experience the learning environments of Festo Didactic. Festo Didactic, the specialist for technical education and training, will be drawing highlights from its portfolio - from the Festo LX digital learning portal, the Festo Learning Experience, to learning systems and content focused on Electrical Engineering ...

Product dimensional inspection skills are key for manufacturing excellence and quality control in a globalized, competitive world. To ensure strict product compliance with design specifications, expertise in product measurement, interpretation of technical drawings, and statistical techniques should become second nature so that workers can correctly apply these skills as soon as they hit the shop floor.  

For the first time, apprentices in the job profiles of Mechatronics and Industry 4.0 met for the German Championships of WorldSkills Germany. These took place at the Festo Lernzentrum Saar in St. Ingbert at the beginning of October. The respective winning teams will represent Germany at the upcoming vocational championships WorldSkills 2022 and EuroSkills 2023.

The Center of Vocational Excellence in Mechatronics at Festo in Esslingen, Germany, is now the official national training center for the German mechatronics team at the WorldSkills championships. "We do not only qualify our own apprentices, but also apprentices who will make up the national mechatronics team at the next WorldSkills Shanghai 2022," says Stefan Dietl, Head of Training at Festo.  

Over 60 competition skills, participants from 60 nations, up to 300,000 spectators... it sounds like the Olympic Games, but it's called WorldSkills, the World Championships for Vocational Training. “Global Industry Partners" (GIP), for whom the topic of professional vocational training is not just lip service, play a major role in the vocational competitions. Festo is one of the exclusive partners in the skills of Industry 4.0, ...

Festo Didactic presents a new experimental set within the existing bionics educational concept “Bionics4Education”. The Bionic Swift can be used to impart relevant knowledge on the topics of bird flight, bionics and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) both in the school education environment and in the private sector.