Business Competence in Social Management

BuCoSoMa dissemination event in Sofia

During our dissemination event end of July, we at GENERATIONS, discussed the problems that are reported in recent years in the field of adult learning in social institutions and that the functions and responsibilities of the institutions involved in learning forms are not clearly formulated and distributed between the managing bodies and organisations bound up with human resources development and vocational qualification of working force in the social sphere. Co-ordination links between them are very poor, but improvements of the organisation and management of the bodies providing social services are needed.

Our attendees were mostly representatives of Educational Institutions and were very interested to become acquainted with the Curriculum we developed in the frame of our project.

Simona Hristova, Managing Director of Association Generations, presented the project and the training concept for teaching basic economic know-how that is necessary for the successful economic management of socially oriented organisations.

The focus of our workshop was the teaching content which would have to contain an educational offer, so that it is interesting for the executives of social companies. Suggestions were made, that topics like networking, ethics, psychology, andragogy and other could be involved in the training modules.

Our participants expressed their willingness to cooperate and support us in the next steps to develop concrete models of learning, training and teaching business competence to employees and managers of social institutions.