During the last few months, all project partners carried out 10 in-depths interviews per country.

The aim of the interview is to assess the national situation regarding the second-chance entrepreneurship landscape and related issues. The interview focuses on elaborating on general trends of stigmatisation of business failure as well as existing and needed revitalisation and rescue tools.

The target groups of the interview are the following:

1. Second-chance entrepreneurs who have restarted a business and are acquainted with regional support structures;
2. Failed entrepreneurs who went bankrupt with their company and/or are in the process of restructuring (e.g. insolvency procedures);
3. Successful entrepreneurs who funded established and successful enterprises making use of existing support structures;
4. Policy-makers involved in the administration of support structures for entrepreneurs, (e.g. Chamber of Commerce, administering training programmes for (re-)entrepreneurs);
5. Investors providing financial or technical support to entrepreneurs and second-chance entrepreneurs in specific;
6. Business support organisations working with SMEs and providing skill trainings (e.g.  Business agencies, Business accelerators);
7. Researchers focusing on the entrepreneurial landscape in the respective country, as well as the policy framework and related topics.

The overall analysis of the different interview reports of the partner countries allows identifying some policy niches, where further actions in the Danube region are recommendable to improve policy systems and legal frameworks in the different countries towards structural, operational and capacity-related improvement: The main conclusion of the report is that there is a huge potential in the area of second chance entrepreneurship policies. Especially regarding issues such as the legal insolvency framework, incentive and revitalisation options, cultural attitudes, entrepreneurial networks and data availability. These identified policy niches can serve as a basis for developing transnational roadmaps and policy tools to improve second-chance entrepreneurship policies. 

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