Seite 7 - General Recommendation for the Award of Credit - EMfEI

European Manager for Foreign Trade – Export / Import
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The vocational training concept „Euro-
peanManager for Foreign Trade - Export /
Import (EMfEI)“‚ funded by the European
Union and developed and tested with Eu-
ropean partners (universities of Versailles,
Barcelona and Arad / Romania, as well as
a provider of adult education in Ruse /
Bulgaria) under the project leadership of
the LEB meets the requirements of a flexi-
ble and practice-orientated professional
training for foreign trade.
„EMfEI“ builds upon the training activities
of the LEB, which we had already develo-
ped for foreign trade and for which we
received the award. Although we have
revised and supplemented the contents
of the approved LEB qualification with
the aforementioned partners, the major
change is, however, the new modular
three-stage structure. Not only allows this
for a custom-fit entry into the vocational
training according to the already existing
knowledge of participants, but also provi-
des - according to the individual professi-
onal goals - three different skill levels, ran-
ging from simple to higher qualifications
up to the level of management activity in
foreign trade.
In order to ensure maximum transpa-
rency and comparability with other Eu-
ropean (vocational) training degrees,
these levels are based on those of the
European Qualifications Framework EQF,
ranging from level 3 (module 1) to level
5-6 (module 3). This module then con-
cludes with the exam for the „European
Manager for Foreign Trade - Export / Im-
port (EMfEI)“.
The curricula of the EMfEI qualification
draw on the traditional disciplinary
framework for the commercial educa-
tion and vocational training and provide
the necessary basic knowledge in Mac-
roeconomics, Business Studies, English,
Economic Geography and Communica-
tion / Rhetoric. However, there are spe-
cific absorptions in these subjects with
important content for foreign trade as
well as the proper subject Import / Ex-
port which deals with International Con-
tract Law and Export Financing up to In-
ternational Marketing Development and
Controlling.
In the training course, working across
subjects is emphasised and the teachers
pay attention to fostering so-called soft
skills such as teamwork or communica-
tion and conflict resolution skills which
are essential and important in professi-
onal practice.
„EMfEI“ was developed as a European
coordinated professional training
programme for higher qualified jobs in
foreign trade, export and import. Practi-
ce has also shown that this training
concept can serve as a stepping stone
for further university studies in e.g. busi-
ness studies and related fields.
Hans Deimann
Head of the LEB Bildungsstätte
Bad Zwischenahn / Oldenburg
Oldenburg, July 2013