The strategic project RURAL-Antreprenor The partners of the project FNTM ( - leader of the consortiumwww.fntm.ro S.C. Siveco Romania SA ( PROJOB GmbH from Germany ( Formastur SA from Spain( Euro < 26 Association ( The project finance selected in the POSDRU program, pilon 5, DMI 5.2. cofinanced by the European Social Fund financed from resources ganted by the project’s partners Project worth~ RON Financing contract POSDRU/83/5.2/S/59596 Website:

Presentation of the RURAL-Antreprenor project Overall objective: to develop the entrepreneurial culture and to increase the expertise in order to improve the skills, the knowledge and the management behavior for actual and future entrepreneurs Target group: actual and future entrepreneurs, especially young people Target developing regions: Northwest: Bihor, Bistria-Năsăud, Cluj, Satu-Mare, Maramure, Sălaj counties Western: Arad, Cara-Severin, Hunedoara, Timi counties Southwest Oltenia: Dolj, Gorj, Mehedini, Olt, Vâlcea counties South Muntenia: Arge, Călărai, Dâmbovia, Giurgiu, Ialomia, Prahova, Teleorman counties Bucharest-Ilfov: Ilfov county Duration of project implementation: 2 years, June 2010 – May 2012 RURAL-Antreprenor is a complementary initiative of the Rural-Manager, strategic project, EFS co-financed, implemented during January 2009 – April 2003, in the other 3 Romanian Developing Regions: North-East, Central and South-East.

Objectives 1. Provide customized management education to 400 entrepreneurs for starting a business or develop an existing business, for increased market competitiveness and local economic growth (November May 2012): 24 regional consultants: 1 consultant / county 2/ Bucureti – Ilfov county 12 local consultancy offices (1 office/ 2 counties) Localization consultancy offices: Bistria, Satu-Mare, Zalău, Arad, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Craiova, Târgu-Jiu, Alexandria, Slobozia, Piteti, Târgovite and Bucharest 2. Organizing 23 regional conferences, 1/ county, in Febr. - Apr. 2011, in order to improve the business performance and motivation for 1400 entrepreneurs and 100 policy-makers by a starting an entrepreneurial education process 3. Develop a quantitative and qualitative research on training and consulting needs of entrepreneurs and those wishing to start a business, from rural target regions (November 2010-May 2011)

Objectives 4. Training and counseling for 300 managers from the 5 target regions, through a portal site- integrated tool, which will include: : e-Learning consulting and networking platform, starting Aug for the developing of the e-Learning managerial education program e-Business platform, for products and services promotion of the beneficiaries all over the country e-Commerce platform (integrated solution of online store) project site – resource center ( 5. Developing business management tool Diagnosis - analysis for 20% of the businesses of the beneficiaries enrolled in the e- Learning program, in iun. – iul customized consulting and implementation of integrated IT-software solutions for business management and decision support, for 30 selected business, starting Aug Dissemination of the project results A final conference in Bucharest with 300 persons, in order to disseminate the results and reward the beneficiaries, May 2012

Portal-website: - The OFICIAL site of the project - Daily upgraded information source - Door to the e-Learning platform for online learning and networking - Door to the e-Business platform for promotion of the beneficiaries’ own business - Door to the e-Commerce platform for merchandizing of the beneficiaries’ own products - Access to useful information and documentation resourceswww.ruralantreprenor.ro

The e-Business platform - e-Business platform for business promotion - it allows the possibility to promote services and products - it allows a dedicated space for storing images and documents - it provides a presentation website easy to create and upgrade

The e-Commerce platform - commercial electronic platform for selling promotion

The e-Learning platform - solution developed for the RURAL-Antreprenor project - Based on the eLearning AeL platform It allows the beneficiaries the following major features: networking learning evaluation and self-evaluation communication involving in an online community access to the own learning reports

The e-Learning managerial education program 7 courses: Business plan, Financial Management, Strategic Management, Project Management, Marketing, IT start-up for a business, Business Ethics Duration of the program: 9 months Regular studies 2 days: June– Aug Courses on the e-Learning platform: Aug – March 2012 Structure of the courses: Learning kits, with Learning moments, with over 200 hours of study Online evaluations and practical test Discussion forums The digital courses are: Interactive Dynamical Include simulations

The project team 7 professors for the courses and 7 assistants 2 multiregional expets, 24 regional consultants, one for every of the 22 counties and 2 for Ilfov county 6 international experts IT experts for the portal development and the learning platform national experts and the management team Associated collaborators: FNTM experts, associated professors from Europe and the United States, experts of the partners PROJOB Germany, Formastur Spain, SIVECO Romania, Euro<26 and the entire network of the FNTM members

Fundaţia Naţională a Tinerilor Manageri - FNTM Str. Dumbrava Roşie nr. 2, Sector 2, Bucureşti Tel: (004) Fax: (004)