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 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Social environment  employers, entrepreneurs, investors,  Innovation, technology-supporting institutions  Technological parks, technology transfer centres  Universities and research-development units  Firms’ boards,  Management staff  Experts, specialists, 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 3

4. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Professional tasks  Identification of needs, initiation of actions, suggesting of new ideas and action strategies  Identification of challenges for the industry, needs emerging from supply markets, technological differences and barriers, research-development projects  Commercialisation of knowledge concerning technology and innovation.  Promoting social, economic and technological changes  Market research and identification of potential providers of new technologies.  Transfer of innovation and technologies to companies, services and commerce  Evaluation and implementation of computer technologies  Connecting business partners for starting joint enterprises which exceed the means of single companies, creating synergic systems  Recommendation of potential solutions for existing problems, planning, organisation and implementation  Searching for financing sources and partnership for the realisation of undertaken projects 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 4

5. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Professional tasks  Procuring European Union’s funds for new technological solutions  Advising in the area of technological and computer development  Gathering and analysing available information in order to define directions for technological development in a given area  Evaluation of a company’s competitiveness on the market  Performing technological audit in a company  Identification of key technologies for the development of a company and an area  Elaboration of company development scenario with its impact on environment  Elaboration of a technological development strategy and a technological development plan for a company and a feasibility study in the area of economical, financial and technical analysis  Organisation of employee trainings for implementation of new technologies.  Designing, implementation, promotion and evaluation of the efficiency of new technological solutions 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 5

6. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Expected skills of  Promotion commercialisation implementation and management of knowledge concerning technology and innovation.  Market study analyses and evaluation of new products, services and technologies from the standpoint of their usability and competitiveness and economical potential.  Development of the technological strategy of a company.  Performing technological audit, evaluation of technological and innovative technology potential.  Technology transfer and licensing.  Negotiations in technology transfer and implementation. 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 6

7. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Expected skills of  Knowledge management, promotion and commercialisation of knowledge concerning technology and innovation  Identification of trends and development directions of the social, physical, technological environment, conditions for entrepreneurship development in a given sector of industry and services  Negotiations in technology transfer, implementation of technological and computer investments  Market study analyses and evaluation of new products, services and technologies from the standpoint of their usability and competitiveness and economical potential  Economical and financial analysis of a company  Application of methods of: planning, decision making, recognising of needs, future development directions within new technologies, market and social tendencies 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 7

8. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Expected skills of  Development of the technological strategy of a company  Performing technological audit, evaluation of technological and innovative potential  Investment planning  Development of a business plan and the feasibility study for projects  Finding outside financial sources, financial assembly  Project development and management  Teamwork, verbal and written communication skills, also in foreign languages  Using multimedia systems, computer support systems within communication and management 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 8

9. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Knowledge of  Regional policy development and the social cohesion of the European Union.  Economic and social situation of the region and whole country  Regional development strategy, innovative, production, educational strategy  Kind and structure of industry, commerce and services of organisations functioning in the business environment  Technological level of a company, an area and new technologies  Size and structure of the unemployment in the region, the country and the European Union  Educational and training institutions on different levels of teaching  Intellectual property and industrial property protection 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 9

10. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of technology development - profile Potential candidate requirements/characteristics  Higher education at Master’s or bachelor’s level in engineering or similar subject areas  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 10