By completing this form, you will:
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Be contacted for a short follow-up interview
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Be featured on the official BS4INNO website
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Be nominated as a Succession Ambassador, sharing your success story to inspire others
We’re looking for powerful, authentic stories about:
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Generational transitions in family businesses
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Ownership handovers — planned or unexpected
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Valuable lessons, hard-earned insights
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What worked (and what didn’t)
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Emotional, personal, and business reflections
👉 Share your journey. Support others. Make succession visible.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
Distinction
Be recognised as an example of excellence
Inspiration
Inspire others
Visibility
Get the international exposure through the BS4INNO and Skillman digital channels & network
Recognition
Appear in the official list of BS4INNO Ambassadors
Honor
Be prised during the Skillman International Forum
Turn Your Experience into Impact!
Share your succession journey and be recognised as a BS4INNO Succession Ambassador — your experience could light the path for others!
Whether it’s a success, a challenge, or a work in progress, your story can help others to plan and go through this challenging moment.
We’re collecting real stories about:
Transitions between generations
Ownership handovers
Lessons learned the hard way
What worked – and what didn’t
Personal, emotional, and business insights
After sharing your story, we invite you to complete a short questionnaire. This will help us:
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Understand common challenges and patterns,
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Inform our training and support tools,
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Build better resources for other businesses like yours.
👉 Complete the Questionnaire:
Form for Family Businesses
Form for potential Business Succession Consultants
LET'S MEET! Book your interview now to be featured on our official platforms.
🗞️ We’d be happy to meet with you for an interview that we can feature and promote across our digital channels! Please let us know your availability by booking a time in this calendar !
WHAT IS BS4INNO?
BS4INNO – Business Succession for Innovation is a 2-year Erasmus+ project designed to support small and medium-sized family businesses during one of their most vulnerable phases: business succession .
We're developing
Training tools
for Business Succession Planners (BSPs)
A European framework
for supporting family business transitions
a platform
to collect and share real-life stories and best practices
European SMEs succession in numbers
450K
Firms transferred in Europe each year
150K
SMEs risk closure from poor succession plans
600K
Jobs lost every year
30%
SMEs survive into the second generation
10%
SMEs reach the third generation
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
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Business owners or successors in family-owned SMEs
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Advisors who supported a succession journey
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Members of the next generation involved in transition
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Anyone who has faced the challenges of succession in business