Early Warning Europe

Free impartial and confidential counselling to businesses in distress

A European Network helping companies in distress

Each year more than 200.000 EU businesses are facing insolvency, and 1,7 million jobs are lost in the EU due to insolvency. Moreover, the risk of bankruptcy is what Europeans fear most about setting up a new business: 43% of Europeans would not start a business if it might fail compared to just 19% in the United States.

Early Warning Europe is a network organisation that has cooperated on establishing national and/or regional Early Warning mechanisms in Poland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Turkey and India.

More countries are in the pipeline, and we cooperate with major international organisations such as the EU, OECD and World Bank on expanding the knowledge and methodology behind our work.

We coordinate a European network of experts, authorities, researchers, associations, chambers and businesses for improving framework conditions for SMEs and entrepreneurs across Europe through networking, exchange of good practice, cooperation and access to breaking-edge knowledge.

Tools and materials from this network are found in our Learning Platform on this site.

Based on European Best Practice

Early Warning Europe builds new best practice and draws on existing experience from Early Warning Denmark, TEAM U in Germany and Dyzo in Belgium showing that free and impartial guidance for companies in distress has a positive impact - not only on the survival chances and financial performance of the companies, but also on society.

The implementation of Early Warning mechanisms across Europe uses and develops European best practice, and will help save jobs, promote growth and improve public finances.

Meet the secretariat of Early Warning Europe

Latest News

On this webpage we continuously share the latest news for the Early Warning Europe project.

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There was much to take away from a valuable Workshop 6

25/05/2023 The sixth EWEMA workshop held on 23 and 25 May was a very exciting event, which saw a massive turnout of 150 participants from 30 countries. The two-hour online event was moderated by our formidable task leaders Eleni Tzoka-Stecka and Morten Møller, along with 4 other facilitators. The themes in focus were Family Business Succession and Business Transfer in the MSME sector.
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Workshop with EUIPO on training business advisors and intellectual property

20/05/2023 On the 31st of May, Early Warning Europe and EUIPO, The European Union Intellectual Property Office, will host an online workshop focusing on the training of business advisors regarding intellectual property.
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Upcoming Workshop 6

04/05/2023 The next workshop (6th) will be held online on 23 and 25 May 2023.
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