Objective
As the international financial markets open up and new financial instruments and technology are used more extensively, business risk increases. In large companies and financial institutions, risk management is catered for by specialised university courses, but these are inappropriate to the needs of SMEs where differences of size, sector, and operating environment require other, differentiated approaches. This project aims to help SMEs minimise risk and enhance their competitiveness in the international market through the development of an innovative training programme designed to provide professionals with relevant expertise and skills.
Programme content will be developed from case studies supplied by industrial partners and tested with groups of students in an associated Leonardo da Vinci staff-student exchange programme. Programme modules will focus on risks in different fields : international marketing and purchasing, human resources, finance, the operating environment and international risk assessment and management. Modules will be designed for use in group and semi-autonomous training.
Products will include learning materials for teachers and students and risk management analyses, policy documents and manuals for SMEs, developed from student assignments. The project provides for adult education versions of the modules to be designed, and for a multimedia presentation/risk management game to be produced for use as a learning tool at different levels of education.
Impact
This project will lead to new training approaches to risk management, promote the creation of a network of training institutions and improve the competitiveness of SMEs.
Contract number : FIN/97/1/27014/PI/I.1.1.a/FPI
Domaine : Initial vocational training
Contents :
Industrial Change
Training in SMEs
Vocational qualifications
Products :
Training programmes/ curriculum
Description of new occupational profiles
Semi-autonomous/ flexible training
Public :
Young people in training
Workers in companies
Managers/ Owners of SMES
Call for proposal
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CSC - Cost-sharing contractsCoordinator
02360 Espoo
Finland