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06-02-2018 11:57
Velizar Petrov

Newsletter #1

DEAR READER, A WARM WELCOME TO STOB REGIONS INTERREG EUROPE!

In this first edition of this newsletter we would like to introduce you to STOB regions and provide an overview of our activities during the first semester of the project implementation. If you have any suggestions, feedback or wish to cooperate with the project please do not hesitate to contact us, using the links below.

Please familiarize yourself with the project and we look forward to your continued attention and cooperation throughout the duration of this project.

MAIN OBJECTIVE

"After the creation and growth of a business, transfer is the third crucial phase in its life cycle." - Commissioners Tajani and Hahn, Foreword of Guidebook No. 3 - Facilitating Transfer of Business 2012.

STOB regions project addresses the challenges of this third phase of business transfer in 9 EU regions.

There has been a strong focus on start-ups across Europe, however, of equal importance is ensuring the survival of existing businesses. Safeguarding SMEs, arguably, has a higher impact on jobs and growth. This is reinforced by the fact that the success rate of transferred businesses is higher than that of start-ups.

The STOB regions partnership brings a range of different experiences and levels of expertise, including regional authorities and business support institutions. The interregional approach explores and examines the challenges faced by succession and seek to find new or improved methods to support business transfers.

KNOWLEDGE SHARING BETWEEN REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS

Over 3 years of sharing experiences and participating in interregional learning, the partners benefit from improved knowledge on the various approaches across the regions. Peer reviews and workshops on specific topics related to business transfer will help promote the learning process and improve the implementation of ESIF programmes. STOB regions also offers input to the debate on both a European and regional level,encouraging greater attention on business transfer in the future cohesion policy with two high-level dissemination events.

The strength of having a wide range of institutions involved guarantees knowledge sharing between regional stakeholders, feeding into the learning process as well as into regional action plans, a key output of the project. These plans will contain concrete projects that build on the good practices identified and transfer new ideas to partner regions with recommendations made for a future regional strategy to support succession. They will be implemented and monitored in the second phase of STOB regions.

KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT

PROJECT PARTNERS:

ADVISORY PARTNER:

WHAT POLICY INSTRUMENTS DOES THE PROJECT ADDRESS? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT

RECENT ACTIVITIES

KICK-OFF MEETING IN FRANKFURT

On 28^th-30^th March 2017 IHK-Projektgesellschaft mbH (Lead Partner) hosted the inaugural meeting of STOB regions in Frankfurt, Germany. The first day of the meeting was dedicated for the partners to get to know each other and to agree on continuation steps of the project implementation... > READ MORE

MEDIA APPEARANCE

On 8^th March 2017, STOB Regions Bulgarian project partner, RDA Plovdivconducted an interview on regional television channel introducing and communicating amongst others, STOB regions project to the local population.... > VIDEO BELOW

STOB regions media appearance: RDA Plovdiv 08.03.2017

PAST EVENTS

2nd Interregional workshop, Kajaani, Kainuu, Finland. READ MORE

3rd Interregional workshop, Krakow, Poland. READ MORE

UPCOMING EVENTS

4th Interregional workshop, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. READ MORE

PARTNER FOCUS

In this edition we focus on the lead partner of the STOB Regions project, IHK-Projektgesellschaft mBH is a service provider for Vocational education and Training (VET) and start-ups at regional and international level for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Ministries. The partner has already completed 32 national and international projects in all kinds of different EU-funded programs(Erasmus, INTERREG).

For more information see their website: https://www.ihk-projekt.de

CONTACT US

Project Manager: morgen@ihk-projekt.de
Communication Manager: john.wideman@kainuunetu.fi

If you require further information regarding the STOB REGIONS project, please use the contacts above. Additionally, if you are located in any of the project's partner regions, and wish to collaborate with the project please contact the local partner responsible.

Until the next edition of STOB regions newsletter, you can find project updates and outputs on the social media links below.

STOB 1st E-newsletter

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