Euricse and the International Co-operative Alliance are inviting co-operatives to complete the World Co-operative Monitor survey available online before the 30 April 2016 deadline (postponed to the 20th of May)Since 2011, Euricse has been collaborating with the International Co-operative Alliance to research the economic and social impact of the largest cooperatives in the world. Euricse's contribution has been critical to the evolution of this ambitious project, in fact, in recent years, the methodological framework has been updated to investigate more effectively the cooperative movement.These measures have improved the knowledge we have of the cooperative movement, especially with regard to the economic and social impact of cooperatives in the communities where they operate. Read More
The researchers, collaborators of Euricse, Silvia Sacchetti (Open University Business School, UK) and Ermanno Tortia (University of Trento, Italy) published an article in the most recent issue of “Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics” (Volume 87, Issue 1, 2016) entitled "The extended governance of cooperative firms: inter-firm coordination and consistency of values”. Read More
The second issue of 2015 (Volume 4, Issue 2) of JEOD has recently been published. This is the seventh issue of the journal since its creation in 2012 by Euricse. Read More
The International Labour Organization and the National Institute of Social Economy of Mexico (INAES) are organizing an Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) that will take place in Mexico, from 23 to 27 of November 2015, at the Ibero-American University in Puebla. Read More
The International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research international research conference will be hosted in 2016 by the University of Almeria (UAL) and the UAL-Coexphal Chair in Almería, Spain from May 24 to May 27. Read More
We are pleased to announce that our researcher Giulia Galera has been elected new member of the EMES Board of Directors which was elected by all members of the the network in October. Read More
Empirical evidence has shown that cooperatives are diverse organizations that efficaciously address a plurality of socio-economic needs. Cooperative organizations are effective in provisioning for myriad life needs, and do so in more democratic and sustainable ways than investor-owned firms. Read More
Euricse will participate in the 3rd World Forum of Local Economic Development (Turin, 13-16 October 2015) organizing together with the ILO the panel The role of social and solidarity economy in employment generation. Read More
Euricse regularly hosts researchers with varying levels of experience, early-stage researchers as well as senior researchers, through our visiting programme. Read More
The 7th Euricse Workshop on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Development, organized in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks) and with the support of EACB (European Association of Co-operative Banks), has taken place in Trento, Italy on June 16th and 17th, 2016, at the Faculty of Economics.
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The Co-operative Advantage, edited by Ed Mayo, is a blueprint for a future social economy in the UK and draws on research over three years with co-operative business experts, advised by Professor Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, an internationally recognized authority on sector development. Read More
The theme of the 5th edition of the ILO Academy on social and solidarity economy will be "Social innovation in the world of work". The ILO global constituents, development partners in South Africa and other stakeholders have been involved in the discussion of the related sub-topics in order to ensure that the content of the Academy is demand driven based on the challenges and needs in Africa and elsewhere. Read More