International exchange brought light to Taiwan Food Industry:
Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology invited Emmanuel Lecanu to share his experience

【President Tai Qian, Emmanuel Lecanu, and Chairman Hsu-I Huang of the Departmentof Hospitality Management (fourth from left)】

The Department of Hospitality Management, Southern Taiwan University of Technology (STUST), which is greatly committed to trainingtalented students and managerial personnel, invited Emmanuel Lecanu, one of the honorable judges of the “42nd WorldSkills Competition—Leipzig, Germany 2013," to STUST to host its international skills competition policy seminar. In the seminar, he brought out a careful analysis of the development trends of bakery production in the European countries and their innovative, creative skills. While he generously shared his personal experience in his professional sphere, Mr. Lecanu also addressed various strategies of managerial/catering personnel training.

【Emmanuel Lecanu was showing students some particular skills, with President Tai Qian as a participant.】

WorldSkills Competition is the world's largest competition held by official organizations for skillful youth. It is held every two years, alternately by different countries in the world, with approximately 50 categories for competition, 54 participating countries, and a total of nearly 1,000 contestants from all over the world. It is a very difficult, very competitive international skills competition. To be a judge in any category, one must have professional skills and expertise and have passed the international skills competition online exam in order to represent his or her own country. Emmanuel Lecanu is an excellent judge with international fame. In 2013, he led his team to the WorldSkills Competition in Germany and won the second prize. In the same competition, the team of the Department of Hospitality Management, led by Chairman Hsu-I Huang, won the third prize, which was the first time in fifteen years for Taiwan to have a top-three place of this category in Worldskills Competition.

【Emmanuel Lecanu was showing students some particular skills.】

【Emmanuel Lecanu was showing students some particular skills.】

【The final work in presentation】