The global economy is experiencing significant economic, technological and demographic changes. Not only has the unemployment rate grown faster in the last decade, but also new “mini-jobs” related to the “gig-economy” are emerging, characterized by non-standard forms, low wages and great instability. In this context, social and solidarity economy (SSE)… Read More
Researchers from all over Europe met in Brussels on May 16th and 17th to discuss the present and future of social enterprises. Over the last two decades, organizations defined as social enterprises have become increasingly important, but their real size and role are still misunderstood in most EU countries. For… Read More
20-21 June 2019, Trento, Italy Euricse announces the organization of the 10th Euricse International Workshop on Cooperative and Responsible Finance for Development. The workshop, organized in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento and Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks), with the support… Read More
The new issue (Volume 7, Issue 2) of the international scientific Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) is now available online. Read More
The Istat-Euricse report on the size of the cooperative sector On 25 January 2019, in accordance with Euricse, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) published the first report on the size of the cooperative sector. The report is part of the research agreement "Dimensions, evolution and characteristics of the social economy" stipulated between Istat and Euricse with the aim of providing a homogeneous statistical framework on organisations in the social economy. Further presentations will follow, along with excerpts of the ebook in English, in the coming months. Read More
Latvia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Lithuania. The first seven country reports have been published on the European Commission's website, and are now available for download. The study "Social enterprises and their eco-systems in Europe" is progressively concluding, and - with it - a real mapping of social enterprises in Europe (but not only) is beginning to take shape, shedding light on the nuances, peculiarities and legal frameworks that characterize the diverse countries. The study presents a thorough analysis, expanding knowledge on the reality of social enterprises. It comes as a follow-up to the 2014 Mapping Study of 28 countries and its 2016 update to seven of them, which contributed to providing a first comparable picture of social enterprise dynamics across 28 EU countries and Switzerland. The refining of the methodology, as tested in 2016, improved the accuracy of the application of the Operational Definition to better capture recent developments in the field. Read More
Two separate articles, both published in the OECD’s LEED Working Paper Series. Giulia Galera, senior researcher at Euricse, worked on the publication of two studies that, from different angles, analyse the integration processes scattered across different European countries. The publications are available online, directly from the OECD website. What are the issues tackled in the publications? Below you can read and consult the related abstracts. Read More
A fruitful discussion forum among over 40 researchers by Giulia Galera, Rocío Nogales The WG2 COST Research Workshop "Tackling the migration and refugee challenge" organized in the framework of the COST Action EMPOWER-SE, succeeded in creating a fruitful discussion forum among over 40 researchers coming from 15 diverse EU countries, who are studying the migration phenomenon from different disciplinary angles. During the two-days COST workshop economists, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists shared the findings of their in-progress investigations and contributed to shed light on both the limitations and challenges faced by current research in a field that has high policy implications. Read More
“Rediscovering cooperatives”, a decade of studies in ten chapters, released to celebrate the milestone Ten years have passed since the birth of Euricse, the ICA’s partner in producing the World Cooperative Monitor. Since 2008, the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises has grown; it has actively participated in the dissemination of knowledge about the social and solidarity economy; it has refined the tools available; it has gained authoritative space in the public and scientific debate - local, national, international - and has built a team of researchers who, day after day, have contributed to the achievement of every single result. Read More
Health care cooperatives, Euricse in Brazil to participate in OCB’s programme The experience of health cooperatives, active in Brazil for over half a century, is being presented this week to policy makers and representatives of financial institutions through the project “Conhecer para Cooperar”. The last module of the initiative,… Read More
World Cooperative Monitor, Report 2018 highlights by Bruno Roelants and Gianluca Salvatori Read More
"Cooperative enterprises are by nature a sustainable and participatory form of business: it is in their DNA" “Our task is to address the roots of each problem by building cooperation through the framework and tools of sustainable development”, according to Italian economist and former labour minister, Enrico Giovannini: spokesperson for the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, member of the global Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity, and Co-chair of the “Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” established by the Secretary General of the United Nationsand. Professor Giovannini in the seventh annual World Cooperative Monitor talks about the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Read More