The strategic project RURAL-Antreprenor

The partners of the project• FNTM (www.fntm.ro) - leader of the consortium• S.C. Siveco Romania SA (www.siveco.ro)• PROJOB GmbH from Germany (www.projob-weiden.de)• Formastur SA from Spain(www.formastur.es)• Euro < 26 Association (www.euro26.ro)

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~ 19.153.000 RON• Financing contract POSDRU/83/5.2/S/59596

Website: www.ruralantreprenor.ro

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, Bistrița-Năsăud, Cluj, Satu-Mare, Maramureș, Sălaj counties• Western: Arad, Caraș-Severin, Hunedoara, Timiș counties• Southwest Oltenia: Dolj, Gorj, Mehedinți, Olt, Vâlcea counties• South Muntenia: Argeș, Călărași, Dâmbovița, Giurgiu, Ialomița, 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, www.ruralmanager.ro, 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 2010 - May 2012):• 24 regional consultants: 1 consultant / county 2/ București – Ilfov county• 12 local consultancy offices (1 office/ 2 counties)• Localization consultancy offices: Bistrița, Satu-Mare, Zalău, Arad, Drobeta-Turnu Severin,

Craiova, Târgu-Jiu, Alexandria, Slobozia, Pitești, Târgoviște 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. 2011 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 (www.ruralantreprenor.ro) 5. Developing business management tool• Diagnosis - analysis for 20% of the businesses of the beneficiaries enrolled in the e-

Learning program, in iun. – iul. 2011• customized consulting and implementation of integrated IT-software solutions for

business management and decision support, for 30 selected business, starting Aug.20116. 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: www.ruralantreprenor.ro - 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 resources

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. 2011• Courses on the e-Learning platform: Aug. 2011 – 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) 021 318 38 73 Fax: (004) 0318 145 925

E-mail: info@fntm.ro, rural@fntm.ro www.ruralantreprenor.ro, www.fntm.ro