- 17-12-2018 16:48
- Velizar Petrov
The seventh Interregional policy learning workshop & peer review
of the STOB regions project took place on 13th
and 14th of December 2018, in
Seville, Spain and organised by project partner Official
chamber of Commerce, Industry and Shipping of Seville.
The first day was dedicated to introducing the participants
to the thematic workshop topic: Business
Transfer in Rural Areas.
Day one provided expert external thematic lectures; Marie Depelssemaker, Secretary General
of TRANSEO, The European Association for SME Transfer, followed by Laurent Renerken, Business transfer
Advisor at SOWACCESS, offering a good practice in the form of the Walloon
Business Transfer ecosystem in Belgium. The Spanish National Plan for Business
Transfer was presented by Francisco
Moreno. Head of Area, Directorate-General Industry and SME of the Ministry
of Industry, Trade and Tourism.
Each of the partners presented
the situation in their countries. Velizar
Petrov from RDA with BSC for SMEs (Regional Development Agency with
Business Support Center for Small and Medium Enterprises - Plovdiv) presented
examples of business transfer in Bulgaria. Plamena
Kovacheva, successor of PULPUDEVA-T Ltd., presented the process of succession
in the company.
The second day was allocated for the Andalucia Region peer
review. Presentations by local stakeholders regarding the regional
specificities and good practice examples, including ARA Andalucía Rural,
Andalucía Regional Government and a 2nd generation succession case of Bulnes
Group.
Active participation of Bulgarian side took also Dobrina Prodanova from Plovdiv Chamber
of Commerce and industry, Snezhana
Aleksandrova from Plovdiv Region, and Aleksandar
Tonkov Maria Doykova, Tsvetana Petkova and Atanas Aleksandrov from RDA with
BSC for SMEs
The next project meeting will
take place in March in Kranj, Slovenia.
Partners' presentations - publications and dissemination
For more information:
032/902
399
Aleksander
Tonkov
Communication
manager of project STOB regions
The
STOB Regions – Succession and Business Transfer in Regions under INTERREG
Europe Program is co-financed under INTERREG Europe 2014-2020.