Abstract:

Cooperation competences today are ones of the most important among all competences necessary for working in the business environment. The mentioned competences also form a part of the competences necessary for cooperating with foreign partners. Due to the increasing of cooperation among enterprises and institutions on both national and international level, cooperation competences tend to become a must for the prospective specialists and thus are required to be and already are developed within the curriculum, through extra-curricular activities, as well as during the field practice and fulfillment of work duties later or within the professional career of the specialists.

The best possible solution for boosting the most appropriate cooperation skills during the studies, as well as for determining the appropriate extent to which each particular skills should be developed is to analyze what particular skills are acquired during the fulfillment of work duties of the particular specialists, as well as to discuss the most suitable environments, conditions and preconditions in which the needed skills are acquired best, thus providing a basis for teachers to simulate such environments within the curriculum.

Today, external relations specialists in Latvia work more on an international level, therefore the need for international cooperation competences prevails. However, simultaneously national cooperation competences, including presentation skills, correspondence skills and other competences are of great importance for a successful career of an external relations specialist as well.

Keywords:

Competences, cooperation, external relations.