JKU Again Successful at International Championship of Young Professionals

Jakob Schaumberger, a JKU employee, competed in the championship in Denmark.

The event in Herning (Denmark) saw 597 young professionals from 32 countries assemble to compete in 38 different professions and select the best young professionals in Europe. Among them were 44 Austrian participants - and they were successful. The Austrians won medals in 36 professions at the 3-day competition. The SkillsAustria, opens an external URLteam triumphed with a total of 6x gold, 3x silver, 3x bronze and 17x Medallions for Excellence (of which 9 were for fourth place). This made Austria the third most successful nation in Europe.

Jakob Schaumberger, opens an external URL in a new windowgraduated from the HTBLA Leonding, opens an external URLand is currently a student and employee at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, opens an external URL. He made fourth place in the electronics category and earned a Medallion for Excellence.

Schaumberger had to prove his skills in three modules (Hardware Design, Embedded Systems Programming, and Fault Finding). On the first day of the competition, participants were tasked with calculating and simulating analog and digital circuits and the creation of a circuit board layout. On the second and third day of the competition, they demonstrated their skills in troubleshooting & repair and in programming STM32 microcontrollers. The JKU employee even achieved the highest score in the hardware design module, which is quite an accomplishment. The hard training over the last few months with his coach Simon Dorrer, university assistant at the JKU clearly paid off.

This success also attests to the industry-oriented and modern electronics education at the JKU and demonstrates the university's willingness to send employees to international professional championships to represent Austria in their respective fields. Other examples include the bronze medal at EuroSkills 2021 and fourth place at WorldSkills 2022, where JKU students and interns also participated under Dorrer's guidance.