Bianca Muntean
4 Nicolae Titulescu Blvd.
400420 Cluj-Napoca Romania
Phone: +40-722-517223; Fax: +40-264-433768
e-mail: irc@e-cat.ro

Education:

Main:
2005 - 2007 Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, RO

• Faculty of European Studies, European Affairs and Project Management Master Program
• Master Degree

2000-2005 Dimitrie Cantemir" University Cluj-Napoca, RO

• Faculty of  Economics, Tourism and Commercial Management
• Bachelor Degree

994-1998 Economic High School Cluj-Napoca, RO

• Diploma for Statistics Accounting

Work Experience:

2001 - present         Transilvania Business Center                    Cluj-Napoca, RO
                              Director, Research&Development Department

• Assistant: "Mobile Business" Course delivered at European Studies Faculty (Associated Prof.Dr. Radu-Adrian Mlesnita) - starting 2002
• CAT Deputy Project Director for smE-MPOWER: http://www.sme-mpower.net
• Project Director IRC-CAT Project http://www.e-cat.ro/irc
• Member in the the Romanian Network of European Information Multipliers
• Consultant EC's LIRIC Project: http://www.e-cat.ro/liric.html
• IT Consultant - EC's Energia Project, Romania: http://www.e-energia.org and http://www.v-market.ro
• CAT’s development and research activities within the EU
• Member in the Organizational Team of The Conference “Trans-European co-operation: Information technologies and policies to support the Romanian new Economy” (Cluj-Napoca, 14-15 December 2001)
• Secretariate Coordinator for the "International Collocvium for Textiles and Clothes" (Cluj-Napoca, 28-29 June 2002)

• Project Manager for "Virtual Valley for Rapid Growth SMEs" - project under an European Commission grant.
• Organizing and coordinating business missions and visits to international fairs and exhibitions in: France, Germany, Italy, China, USA, Canada for CAT's member companies
• Maintaining and developing Transylvania Business Center's sites: http://e-cat.ro; http://ClujNapoca.ro; http://e-bursa.ro; http://v-market.ro; http://Kolozsvar.ro;
• Organizing seminars and dissemination campaigns for CAT
• CAT's international business links and contacts
• Research and market surveys
• Business training and advising probationists students and pupils

• Project Manager for BREuropa Project under a Phare-Europa grant.
• Maintaining and developing the relations between Transylvania Business Center, its members and the local, national and international business community;
• Organizing seminars;
• Designing and maintaining Transylvania Business Center's sites: http://e-cat.ro; http://e-cat.ro/irc; http://ClujNapoca.ro; http://e-bursa.ro; http://v-market.ro; http://Kolozsvar.ro;
• Working out and implementing development programs for introducing the new information technologies;
• Coordinating the “Internet Culture” promotion campaigns among the local business community;
• Maintaining data bases;
• Developing contacts with national and international partners;
• Participation to International Conferences, Exhibitions and Business Missions: Larnaca (Cyprus), Cairo (Egypt), Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (Israel), Copenhagen (Denmark), Beijing (China), Victoria (Seychelles), Paris La Val (France); Barcelona, Valencia (Spain); Vienna (Austria), Venice, Roma, Milano, Verona (Italy), Brussels (Belgium).
• Participation to EU Conferences: Partnership '98-Athens (Greece), EIC/EU Networks 2000-Prague (Czech Republic); Berlin – EU Enlargement 2001 (Germany), IST 2001 Dusseldorf, IST 2002 Copenhagen, IST 2004 The Hague, IST 2006 Helsinki, EUROSIM Conference 2007 Buffalo, New York, USA.
• Author of projects for national and international financing;
• Organizing together with EU Consult – Dk a study trip to Denmark for a group of 20 young politicians.

• Initiated, organized and implemented the Lyceum Business Center
• Instructing the students in activities with an economic profile: reception, use of computer, data-base, Internet, marketing, business-plans, market studies, etc.
• Designing program development projects and negotiating them with national and international donors
• Coordinating the monthly mailing service for CAT's member companies

• Public relations;
• Business correspondence;
• Administration duties.

Skills:

• Computer: Microsoft Office, Internet, E-mail, Web-Site designing, Photo Managing (Adobe Photoshop, Presto Page Manager), Power Point etc.
• Data processing;
• Personal communication skills, team spirit;
• Ready to work overtime;
• Adapting quickly to a new environment and responsibilities.

Concept papers:

• " n2n" - Network - to - Network or Networking-the-Networks
• Experience of Transilvania Business Center in Promoting Innovation and EU Standards in the Region
• Knowledge Management & Innovation applied in Agriculture
• IRC Network and smE-MPOWER Project - Support for SMEs
• Mobile Knowledge Management for Mobile Business - Mkm-4-Mbiz
• Mobilizing the Romanian Innovative SMEs for participanting at the 7th Research Program of the European Commission
  
  

Languages:

• English (fluent), French, Spanish & Italian (limited)

Interests:

• Computers & Internet, traveling, reading.