ACTIVITIES

The new economic environment, with its prevailing tendency towards globalisation, calls for greater competitiveness, which is something that companies will have to bear in mind in the immediate future.

At the same time, many family enterprises will be facing up to the problem of generational transition. This entails tackling the legal aspects surrounding this process as well as the internal transformation involved, from both a business and family perspective.

The combination of these two factors at one moment in time, when the generational transition combines with the need to configure a new model with competitive advantages from a business perspective, makes it necessary to provide references, examples, experiences and tools that help family enterprises to formulate new projects to guarantee continuity, successfully tackling the double challenge of succession and company reorientation.

To achieve this strengthening of the family-owned business, the Family Enterprise Institute has been playing an important educational role through conferences and seminars in which the specific nature of the family-owned enterprise is explored in depth, helping the family business owner to respond to the internal and external challenges that arise during their management.

At the same time, the Institute develops training programmes for the different groups within the family business and contributes to the analysis of political, business and social issues.

The Family Enterprise Institute aims its activities at three target areas:

1. Towards its members, helping them tackle the challenges in managing their enterprises:

* By means of seminars and conferences led by professionals with expertise in the specific problems of family-owned businesses. * Serving as a forum for family business owners to exchange experiences and providing information on professional services.

2. Towards the Public Administration, acting as a skilled intermediary on business and economic policy matters, with the aim of proposing legal and fiscal reforms to improve the framework in which family businesses operate.

3. Towards public opinion, promoting the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge and information on family-owned businesses.