Profile:
Expert in planning and coordination of programmes for economic and social development and fundraising.
Functions:
The local animator-planner promotes and enhances the opportunities of growth of a local community within development plans of a wider area. Economic and social development experts carry out research activities on concepts, theories and methods to analyse and understand the functioning of markets, to identify practical solutions to the problems of local economies with high growth. Experts are active in sharing economy and community building with attention to the needs of local contexts, with respect, in particular, to circular economy and environmental sustainability. They carry out functions of planning and management of cooperation and development interventions. They possess:
- the ability to analyse economic contexts with developmental delays
- the ability to intervene in local development
- the ability to select and implement intervention policies suitable for triggering sustainable development processes.
They also perform the function of economic analysis and can use the statistical-methodological tools for economic analysis. They can analyse the relationships among fundamental economic quantities and know how to interpret the statistical indicators that describe them.
Skills:
The expert may be involved as a primary actor in the analysis of contexts in which to intervene to carry out an activity of cooperation, including the issues of integration resulting from migration flows, and of sustainable economic development. The expert can identify and investigate the need for intervention within its planning activity and monitor and evaluate the results of the planned intervention or other development and international cooperation actions. He/she knows the best experiences of innovative design carried out in the world and can manage social innovation projects. Moreover, the expert knows how to use crowdfunding for the development of projects and events and is able to design them on his/her own, searches for partnerships in the local area for the development of the organization and the community, supports the management in building partnerships. He/she is able to organize major communication and fundraising events. Graduate also possesses the skills and competences to initiate self-entrepreneurial processes and to respond to the new needs of the labour market such as social companies and cooperatives.
Career opportunities:
In the first years of employment, graduates of the course will be able to carry out professional activities in the public administration, in non-governmental organizations and in the third sector, in educational institutions, in the system of social and cultural cooperation and international organizations, cooperatives and social enterprises. Other professional opportunities may be found in individual or associated activities, offices and youth cooperatives, aimed at cooperation, social interventions towards immigrants, assistance and observation during elections in areas of international crisis, in the promotion and protection of human and civil rights and in the achievement of equal opportunities in countries with developmental delays or in those areas where the role of women is still marginal compared to social and economic processes, as well as in the organisation of social innovation events aiming at the implementation of sustainable development plans, with a particular attention to social and environmental sustainability. Graduates will also find employment in organizations deling with the design and management of development programs and plans, with decentralized cooperation bodies (Region, Province and Municipality), companies with interests in developing countries.
Profile
Social innovation and social business entrepreneur
Functions:
The functions refer to the development of self-employment with reference also to the opportunities for financing innovative projects at national and European level. The social entrepreneur is oriented to start ups in relation to social and traditional finance. The entrepreneur of social innovation also operates in economically less advanced contexts and where solutions require partially standardized inter-sectoral knowledge.
Skills:
Expert in social business
Entrepreneur of social innovation
The social innovation entrepreneurs possess organizational and multitasking skills, ability to manage relationships, economic and financial bases. They master the marketing and sales techniques applied to social issues. They know the opportunities for financing innovative projects both nationally and in Europe. They manage social business and social innovation projects, competitive strategies and are able to find national and European public and private funds. They can use crowdfunding to develop projects and events. They drive staff culture towards process innovation and openness to new ideas, new operational methods, sustainability strategies, co-planning.
Career opportunities:
The profile is sought in particular by NGOs, social cooperation consortia, large and small cooperatives, large associations, Public Administration, nationally and internationally, small and medium enterprises oriented to local development in an internationalization perspective.
