General Management
(e.g. Finance and accounting, Sales and Marketing
Research and Development, Operations (Production and Logistics), Strategy and Planning, Organizational structures and behaviour, Personnel administration and management)

Other Human and Social Sciences
(e.g. Communication and Linguistics, Economics, Education Sciences, History, Law, Literature, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychology, Sociology)

Team competencies
(e.g. Empathy, or capacity of interpersonal understanding,
Cooperation and teamwork capacity, Transparent communication mechanisms, establishing explicit rules and expectations and dealing with underperformance, Proactiveness towards continuous improvement and willingness to learn, Self-awareness of team strengths and weaknesses, Proactive attitude and careful problem solving, Self-esteem and capacity to motivate, Flexibility in the way to carry out collective tasks (adaptability in the sense of employability or “polyvalence”), Awareness of the context constraints and stakeholders’ views, Networking ability: clustering and building relations with other teams (neural building of collective intelligence))

Stakeholder competencies
(e.g. Communication and Public Relations, Negotiation, Problem solving and Decision Making, Standards Regulations and Laws, Diversity and Cross-cultural issues, Gender and inclusion issues, Societal, Political and Economical issues, Environmental and Ecological issues, SME involvement)

Project competencies
(e.g. Project Integration and coordination of the various elements of the process; Project Scope: to include all the work required and only that; Project Time: to ensure timely completion of the project and its work-packages; Project Cost: to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget; Project Quality: to ensure that the needs for which it was undertaken will be satisfied; Project Communication: to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination and storage of project information and knowledge; Risk Management: identification, analysis and response to project risks)