Expert in planning and coordination of development programmes and plans.
Function: Planning and management of cooperation and development actions:
Skills:
- Ability to analyse underdeveloped economic contexts;
- Ability to select and implement intervention policies adequate to trigger development policies;
Function: economic and social context analysis
Skills:
- Ability to use statistical-methodological tools for economic analysis;
- Ability to analyse the relations among the principal economic factors and to interpret the statistical indicators describing them;
In their first years in the labour market, graduates of this Course may carry out their professional activities in the public administration, in nongovernmental and third sector organisations, in educational institutions, in the social and cultural cooperation system and in international organisations.
Professional opportunities:
Experts in economic development, international cooperation and migrations may play a primary role in the analysis of the contexts where it is envisaged and intervention to carry out activities in the field of cooperation and economic development. They are capable of identifying and investigating the needs for action during their planning as well as of monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of the planned actions or of other actions of development and international cooperation. Other professional opportunities may be found in activities, as individuals or in professional offices or cooperatives, oriented to cooperation, to social interventions towards immigrants, to assistance to elections in the areas of international crisis, to the promotion and defence of human and civil rights and to the achievement of equal opportunities in underdeveloped countries or in the areas where the role of women is still marginal with respect to social and economic processes.
Graduates may also find professional opportunities in the organisations dealing with the planning of development programmes and plan, in decentralised cooperation agencies (Region, Province and Municipality), nongovernmental organisations, companies with interests in developing countries.
Graduates also possess the skills needed to start self-entrepreneurship processes , answering to the new demands of the labour market, such as social enterprises.
Agents and consultants for local development
Functions: the professions in this field carry our research activities on concepts, theories and methods to analyse and understand the functioning of markets, to identify possible solutions to economic problems, to plan and support the implementation of policies of support and regulation of economics and social systems.
Public agencies and private facilities, social enterprises, international and nongovernmental institutions.
