Next 24th of October 2018, IFKA Public Benefit Nonprofit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry is warmly welcoming participants of the REBORN Final Conference in Budapest. The event will bring together high-level policymakers, representatives of financially distressed organizations as well as second-chance entrepreneurs with the most innovative SME incubators from Hungary. Inspirational keynote speeches are expected to be delivered by Ms. Noémi Győri, worldwide acknowledged flutist, keynote speaker of the TED X Danubia conference in 2017 as well as by representatives of the European Economic and Social Committee of the Committee of the Regions. During the event, partners from 6 EU countries will deliver presentations about the state-of-the-art of second-chance entrepreneurship, good practices on SME acceleration for boosting entrepreneurial activities even in case of re-entrepreneurship as well as partners’ future plans for the implementation and monitoring of policy changes. Furthermore, participants will be provided with insight into IFKA’s new initiative DanubeChance2.0 “Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region” financed under the INTERREG DANUBE Programme that is addressed to enable the creation of a business environment that helps entrepreneurs save viable businesses and create more companies in the Danube region through 130 hours blended trainings, workshops, seminars and the development of the “Second-chance Entrepreneurship Strategy for the Danube region”.
The Agenda will be as follows:
9:00 – 9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:15 – 9:30 Official welcome |Dr. Krisztina Bárdos, managing director, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry
9:30 – 10:30 Giving entrepreneurs a second-chance: entrepreneurship challenges in the Danube region (EUSDR) | Moderator: Mária Baracsi, coordinator of DanubeChance2.0 project, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)
- Marius-Valentin Niculae, Project Officer, INTERREG DANUBE Programme JS
- Jaroslava Szüdi, EUSDR PAC7 coordinator, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
- Nirvana Kapitan Butković EUSDR PAC8 coordinator, Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts
- Mária Baracsi, DTP Thematic Pole 3 leader, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry
10:30 – 11:30 Roundtable 1 – policies enabling preventive restructuring and second-chance entrepreneurship | Moderator: Mária Baracsi, coordinator of DanubeChance2.0 project, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)
• New EU Directive on second-chance and restructuring // Ondrej Vondracek, Legal and Policy Officer, European Commission, DG JUST Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (Belgium)
• Second-chance entrepreneurship in European policies // Pietro De Martino and Valeria Rainisio, coordinator of REBORN project, FILSE Financial Agency of Liguria Region (Italy)
• Comparative legal framework of company re-structuring in case of insolvency // Dr. György Kovács, Legal Expert, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Roundtable 2 – Initiatives enabling preventive re-structuring in Europe
Lessons learned from EU projects
• PRE-SOLVE PREventing business failure and insolvency project // Dirk VANTYGHEM, director, EUROCHAMBERS
• Early Warning Europe // Morten MØLLER, Project Manager, Business Development Centre Central Denmark
• DanubeChance2.0 Preventive restructuring and Second-chance entrepreneurship opportunities in the Danube region // Mária BARACSI, Head of Unit of International Cooperation, IFKA Public Benefit Nonprofit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Interactive workshop – Regional policy solutions to boost second-chance entrepreneurship across Europe (Regional Action Plans including good practices from Europe) | Moderator: Maria Giovanna Laudani, FILSE Financial Agency of Liguria Region (Italy)
- MariaGiovanna Laudani, Pietro De Martino and Valeria Rainisio FILSE Financial Agency of Liguria Region - Italy
- Almudena Sánchez Ferrer, Project manager, CEEIM – Murcia Business Innovation Centre (Spain)
- Danuta Sulowska, Department of Economy and International Cooperation in the Lubelskie, Marshal Office of Lubelskie Voivodeship / Aneta Pieczykolan, expert, Marshal Office of Lubelskie Voivodeship - Poland
- Mária Baracsi, Project manager, IFKA Public Benefit Non Profit Ltd. for the Development of the Industry (Hungary)
- Alain Demarez, Project manager, Agency for Enterprise & Innovation, Belgium
- Kostas Karamarkos, Project manager, Regional Development Fund on behalf of Region of Western Macedonia (Greece)
14:00 – 15:00 Creative facilitation – What to learn from failure?
