A landscape designer from Co Down has won a coveted award at the recent Euroskills 2012 event in Belgium.
Aaron Jamison from Crossgar bagged the Medal of Excellence for Landscape Gardening and Design.
Having recently completed his extended diploma in horticulture at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), Greenmount Campus, Arron is already part of the six-strong UK squad for the Worldskills competitions.
Aaron went to the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in eastern Belgium as part of a two-person team.
After three days of exacting work, he and his teammate achieved a very creditable silver medal place and Aaron was awarded a Medal of Excellence for his efforts. These are awarded to competitors who achieve the WorldSkills standard of excellence in their skill area.
Johnston Shaw, world skills coordinator at the college said: “We’re really pleased for Aaron. The Worldskills team uses the Euroskills Landscape Gardening and Design event as a training event to hone the squad’s competitive edge and Aaron has shown that he’s right up there with the best.
We wish him well in his quest to secure a place on the two man team for the future Workskills Final in Leipzig, Germany next year.”
Landscape skills are an important part of the learning package on offer to students of horticulture at the Greenmount Campus of CAFRE.
For further information on the courses available at the college, please visit the CAFRE website www.cafre.ac.uk.
EuroSkills is a biennial international skills competition organised in one of the WorldSkills Europe member states.
It centres on the professional performance of hundreds of talents, selected through competitions held in participants’ countries.
During the EuroSkills competition our those competing, international industry partners, governmental agencies and educational institutions come together to promote vocational education and training excellence in Europe.
The event aims to encourage world class standards of skills and competences in Europe.
This partnership between students, governmental and private institutions and civil society organisations is unique within Europe.