Education in Intergenerational Family Businesses at the University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev” Before, During and After the COVID-19 Restrictions

Since 2018 the UniversityUniversities ofEntrepreneurship Ruse has beenRestrictions a memberDaniel Pavlov of the international academic network INTERGENINTERGEN academic network. The main focus of this international community from eight countries is to study how the intergenerational family businessesFamily business could be used as a stress management instrument for entrepreneurs. Since 2002 the University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”University of Ruse \“Angel Kanchev\” has developed the proper digital infrastructure—an online system for teaching e-learningE-learning.uni-ruse.bg, which is the first one from this level in BulgariaRuse, Bulgaria. Therefore, the transitionTransition from face-to-face to online teachingOnline teaching has happened rather quickly and easily during the period of COVID-19COVID-19 pandemicCovid-19, pandemic (2020–2022). All academicsAcademics have managed to have their classes in online environment. Also, some of them have taken good advantage of these conditions and introduced some new teaching activities, which cannot exist in a face-to-faceFace-to-face educational processChange process. Their experience gives new perspectives to the online educationOnline education in the University of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”. The aim of this chapter is to present part of the educational experience of the Faculty of BusinessBusiness and Management at the UniversityUniversities of Ruse “Angel Kanchev”University of Ruse \“Angel Kanchev\” (Bulgaria)Ruse, Bulgaria in teaching the subject of intergenerational family businessesFamily business to students from bachelor and master degree before, during and after the COVID-19COVID-19 pandemicCovid-19, pandemic restrictionsRestrictions. Some of the descriptions have been presented to the European Commission under the concept of HEInnovate—the entrepreneurial universitiesUniversities.