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Press Release: After a high-brow, challenging competition we are happy to announce you the winners for the CYE2012 in Basel... 

Gold for Switzerland, Silver for Austria and Bronze for Germany

Smiling faces for Stefan Wyss from Switzerland, Clemens Kerschbaumer from Austria and Markus Müller from Germany.

GOLD | First   Switzerland		STEFAN WYSS First Prize  Candidate			ADRIAN SOMMER Proud Expert of Stefan
SILVER | Second  Austria		CLEMENS KERSCHBAUMER Second Prize  Candidate			STEPHAN PREISHUBER Proud Expert of Clemens
BRONZE | Third    Germany		MARKUS MÜLLER Third Prize  Candidate			RALPH SASSMANNSHAUSEN Proud Expert of Markus

They are the winners of the 12th European Competition of Young Electricians (CYE), which took place from 13th to 18th of April 2012 in Basel as part of the Swiss trade fair muba warmly hosted by our members of VSEI. "Phenomenal!  says Hans-Peter In-Albon, Director of the Swiss Association of Electrical Installation Company (VSEI) and adds:" In this championship, the electrical and telecommunications installation industry demonstrated that it has an excellent professional talent. The Swiss industry congratulates Stefan Wyss for this extraordinary success. "

This great competition performance stands in Europe for the excellent education and training in the industry that actively promote young professionals and which is therefore an excellent opportunity for employers and educators.

Stefan in action		Clemens in action		Markus in action

Nine nations in total competed at the 12th CYE2012. That gives six other competitors the well deserved 4th place. We would like to equally congratulate them, since they have been working until the very last end:  Chris Young (England/UK), Decio Resendes (Portugal), Harald Haugen (Norway), Javier Vera (Spain), Kevin Aubergeon (Luxemburg), Sébastien de Maere (Belgium). This format of participants follows the alphabetical order and is not indicative of any ranking in the competition.

From the left to the right: Sébastien de Maere (BE), Harald Haugen (NO), Chris Young (UK), Decio Resendes (PT), Kevin Aubergeon (LU), Javier Vera (ES), Markus Müller (DE), Clemens Kerschbaumer (A), Stefan Wyss (CH)

Many of the competitors commented that - winner or not - this was a unique experience, getting the chance to work with new unknown devices and all this - let's not deny it - within a quite stressful environment, performing in front of a live audience.

In this exciting and high-level competition, the young electrician has to pay particular attention to the timing, the most important moment in the final phase where the time factor is often a decisive role. "Divide the time properly and not go into detail is of utmost importance.  I have been training before the competition." says Stefan Wyss, acknowledged as the European champion of installers and continues: "But in this highly exciting competition atmosphere, everything was a lot harder. I'm very proud that I could insert timing in my skills perfectly. "

The Swiss Association of Electrical Installation Company (VSEI) took the responsibility to organize the European competition and the CYE arena attracted a lot of attention from the public within the vibrating muba fair. This “general public” fair was specifically chosen as competition arena by VSEI, since many young people and their  parents visit this lively creative fair. ...

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