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 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - 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 entrepreneurship - 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,  experts, specialists,  lawyers 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 3

4. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - 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, research-development projects  Providing information, finding and linking partners, consultations in services supporting the development of entrepreneurship  Commercialisation of knowledge concerning entrepreneurship and innovation  Promoting social, economic and technological changes  Technological innovation transfer, transfer of organisational innovations to companies, services and the commerce  Innovation stimulation in SMEs  Creation of private-public partnership 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 4

5. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - profile Professional tasks  Connecting business partners for starting joint enterprises which exceed the means of single companies  Support and advice for entrepreneurs on legislation, finance, starting business, marketing, subsidies, import/export etc  Recommendation of potential solutions for existing problems, planning, organisation and implementation  Searching for financing sources and partnership for the realisation of undertaken projects  Procuring European Union’s funds for new technological solutions.  Advising in the area of business running  Development of strategies and development plans for companies, and feasibility studies within economical, financial and technical analysis  Organisation of trainings for employees of new and restructured companies 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 5

6. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - profile Expected skills of  Identification of trends and directions of social and economic development, conditions for the development of entrepreneurship, industrial sector and services  Negotiations with business partners  Analyses and application of market study tools, evaluation of investments, competitiveness potential, economical potential of production, services, commerce and products  Economical and financial analyses of companies  Estimating, planning, making investment decisions, recognising needs and future development directions of business running, market and social tendencies  Development of company strategies 2nd Meeting - Bilbao, May 2005 6

7. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - profile Expected skills of  Performing technological audit, evaluation of technological and innovative potential  Investment planning  Development of a business plan and the feasibility study for investments.  Development and management of a project  Establishment of new company, restructuring and modernization of existing ones  Knowledge 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 7

8. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - profile Expected Knowledge  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

9. LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PL/04/B/F/PP – 174 446 _________________________________________________________________________ Animator of entrepreneurship - profile Potential candidate requirements/characteristics  Higher education at Master’s or bachelor’s level  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 9