November 2017

At MGYOSZ / Business Hungary’s webpage we traditionally publish our e-bulletin, Magyar Gyáripar ten times yearly.

Our aim with the bulletin is to regularly inform the stakeholders of the Hungarian economy on the most important and current issues, first of all from the viewpoint of MGYOSZ’s member companies. In the November edition of 2017 we introduced FAME project for the readers. The article covers the project history, introduces all project partners, the expected milestones and outcomes of the project.

November and December 2018

At MGYOSZ / Business Hungary’s webpage we traditionally publish our e-bulletin, Magyar Gyáripar ten times yearly.

Our aim with the bulletin is to regularly inform the stakeholders of the Hungarian economy on the most important and current issues, first of all from the viewpoint of MGYOSZ’s member companies. In the November and December edition of 2018 we introduced  the results of the FAME project and published interviews on the project with the representatives of Budapest Business School, National Association of Family Businesses and Business Hungary.

Based on the conducted Business Transfer Barometer survey, implemented in Croatia by CEPOR - SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy Center in 2015 more than 5,300 enterprises with about 57,000 employees represent the risk group whose owners underestimate the complexity and length of duration of the business transfer process.

In order to raise the awareness of aging entrepreneurs about complexity and importance of timely preparation for business transfer process CEPOR organized 6 regional awareness raising events called Family Business and Business Transfer Forum, in February and March 2018, in the following cities: Cakovec (Medjimurje region), Rijeka (Primorje region), Pula (Istria), Zadar and Split (Dalmatia) and Virovitica (Slavonia region).

The long-term goal was to ensure the sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises and crafts in Croatia after retirement of their owners in order to preserve the jobs of employees working in these companies and their positive impact on the local economy and Croatian economy as a whole. During these events participants were informed about CEPOR’s activities, especially emphasizing the objectives and expected outcomes of FAME project that CEPOR is participating as a partner.

TCA - Transnational Cooperation Activities in Lodz, Poland

26-28 September 2018

László Varga, coordinator of the FAME project by Budapest Business School participated in the TCA - Transnational Cooperation Activities in Lodz (organised by the Polish ERASMUS+ Agency) in September 2018. It was a 2 days conference and workshop titled “Innovate your teaching through methods like gamification, e-learning, Design Thinking, Project Based Learning, use of new technologies in higher education”. It was a great opportunity to introduce the FAME project and its e-learning development methods and materials to more than 50 participants from 15 countries and a great event for networking and discussing the follow-up opportunities of the project.

The 5^th edition of the European SME Transfer Summit took place on the 17^th and 18^th May 2018, in the Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg. The event was co-organized by the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and TRANSEO, the European Association for SME Transfer, and in partnership with the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy, the Société Nationale de Crédit d’Investissement (SNCI), Sowacess and the Walloon government. The Summit was a key event for the Business Transfer network in Europe and brought together over 50 international speakers and around 200 participants representatives of the main regional organizations working on the issue of business transfer.

The goal of the Summit was to pursue efforts of entrepreneurs towards easier and more efficient business transfers and to encourage the participants to exchange and learn from European experts and policy representatives about matters such as business transfer, entrepreneurship, growth and scale up, family business succession planning, strategic acquisitions, cross-border transactions, financing schemes, etc.

Mirela Alpeza, director of CEPOR - SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy Center from Croatia, member of TRANSEO, participated on the Summit. As a moderator of the workshop Business transfer ecosystems – developing Action plans to support business transfers: key ingredients Mirela informed the Summit participants about the objectives and expected outcomes of FAME project that CEPOR is participating as a partner.