1. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ European Curricula for Economic Animator in the Enlarging Europe 2nd Meeting - Bibao, May 2005

2. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Business environment  Rapidly changing conditions for running business, services and commerce.  Shortening life cycle time of products, technologies, realisation/execution of production orders.  Growing computerisation of more and more areas of production, services, commerce and communication.  Growing global competitiveness.  Appearance of new forms of business activities, organisational changes, means and methods of communication.  Decreasing productive, research-development and financial powers of single firms, development of cooperation and companies merging. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 2

3. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Social environment  employers, entrepreneurs, investors,  entrepreneurs’ organisations,  vocational organisations,  consultancy and advisory agencies,  universities and research-development units,  innovation-supporting institutions,  financial institutions, banks,  labour unions,  firms’ boards,  management staff,  experts specialists,  lawyers. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 3

4. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Potential candidate requirements/characteristics  Higher education  Innovativeness, creativeness, ambition  Entrepreneurial attitude  Excellent interpersonal communication and networking skills  Honesty, willingness to improve knowledge and skills  Willingness and strong motivation to work  Readiness to take necessary risks  Resistance to stress  Knowledge of foreign languages 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 4

5. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Professional tasks  Identification and stimulation of needs, initiation of actions, suggesting new ideas and action strategies and plans  Providing information, finding and uniting/associate partners, consulting/counselling in services supporting economic development.  Initiating/stimulating, coordinating and guiding/supervising the realisation of projects, tasks and investments connected with the development of the region in particular areas.  Supporting organisations, groups, coalitions working for social and economic development of the region, industry, services and commerce.  Promotion of social, economic and technological changes.  Promotion and commercialisation of knowledge concerning entrepreneurship and innovation. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 5

6. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Professional tasks  Facilitate shearing knowledge and experience.  Recommendation of potential solutions for existing problems, planning, organisation and implementation.  Initiation/Creation of private-public partnership.  Searching/seeking for financing sources and partnership for the realisation of undertaken projects.  Procuring European Union’s funds  Evaluation of a company’s competitiveness on the market. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 6

7. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Expected skills of  Identification of trends of social and economic development  Application of methods for planning, decision making, needs recognising, future development directions.  Application of methods for market analyses, investment, competitiveness and production potential evaluation of services, commerce, production and products.  Preparation/elaboration of business plan and feasibility study.  Project development and management.  Knowledge management.  Negotiations with business partners.  Economical and financial analyses.  Development of application projects for procuring co-financing from EU, national and regional resources.  Finding outside financial sources, financial assembly.  Teamwork, networking, verbal and written communication skills, also in foreign languages.  Using multimedia systems, computer aided systems within communication and management.

8. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Economic animator - profile Knowledge of  European Union policy – as regards: regional development, agricultural one, and social cohesion.  Economic and social situation of the region and country.  Regional, innovative, production, educational and ecological development strategies and policy making.  Local society, self-governmental organisations and local authorities’ structure.  Kind and structure of industry, commerce and services and organisations functioning in the business environment.  Size and structure of unemployment.  Regional resources.  Educational and training institutions on different levels of teaching.  Law on business running.  Intellectual property and industrial property protection rights. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 8