Jean-Louis Laville keynote speaker at the Scientific Colloquium

26 August 2026

Registration is now open for the 19th edition of the Scientific Colloquium on Social Enterprise, scheduled for the 23rd and 24th October in Siena. Two days dedicated to examining the present and future of social enterprise through dialogue between research, academia and entrepreneurship. The programme brings together over 60 papers, 15 universities, 10 research centres, alongside scholars specialising in the field. The keynote speaker will be Jean-Louis Laville, a renowned economist and lecturer in Solidarity Economics at the CNAM in Paris and a member of the EMES International Research Network, who will open the proceedings with a keynote address.

The event is organised with the logistic and academic support of EURICSE and in collaboration with IKIGAI Social Hub, the Monte dei Paschi di Siena Foundation and the Cattolica Foundation. The collaboration with IKIGAI Social Hub further reinforces the Colloquium’s role a forum that creates new opportunities for dialogue between the worlds of research and social enterpreise.