Main skills necessary to run a CBI Sample Clauses

Main skills necessary to run a CBI. Interviewees were asked to “talk about the PROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL skills really needed and used to run the initiative. In the group of people active in the initiative, what are up to three skills which require the highest level of qualifications (e.g., education, training or experience)?” The named skills have been classified in 8 categories (see Figure 10). The 46 CBIs answering to this question listed a total of 125 skills, 101 of which belong to one of the seven identified categories in Figure 10. One of the most relevant categories is the “Technical skills relevant to the CBIs goals” (24 entries), which means that many of the interviewed organisations tackle very specific issues, requiring specific expertise. This category aggregates competencies such as technical understanding of sustainable energy and heat plants, expertise of bike repairing, handcrafting skills, gardening skills, engineering skills, restoration experience, forestry expertise, architecture skills, agronomy expertise. Management and financial skills are also very important (respectively 22 and 15 entries), followed by communication skills (14 entries). Interpersonal skills have been reported 12 times, also mentioned as social skills, such as the capacity to work in a group or the capacity to gather a group around a common target. Less frequent, but still relevant, are two “supportive” skills, ICT (6 entries) and logistic skills (4 entries). Almost one out of five of the skills belong to the “Other” category, which comprises specific and infrequent skills such as juridical expertise, pedagogy and psychology expertise, but also personal quality such as integrity, perseverance, motivation and physical fitness.