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JEOD is calling for papers on Socio-economic Development in Biosphere Reserves
We invite you to submit a paper on community-based, collaborative solutions to sustainable economic development in and around Biosphere Reserves to the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD).
Guest editors: Colin Campbell, Silvia Sacchetti, Flaviano Zandonai
Submission: Please submit by November 1st, 2016
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What is the contribution to citizens’ health by cooperatives?
The kick-off meeting of the research project “Health cooperatives and mutuals worldwide – analysis of the contribution to citizens’ health by cooperatives around the world” managed by Euricse in collaboration with IHCO will be held on Friday, July 8 in Madrid, at the headquarters of Asisa (a health insurance cooperative, member of the Fundación Espriu and co-founder of IHCO). The research project examines both members and users of health cooperatives and studies the way in which health cooperatives operate in and contribute to the welfare system of their country. It aims to perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis on health cooperatives and the systems in which they operate.
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JEOD is calling for papers on worker cooperatives
JEOD, the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, is planning an issue for the end of 2016 entirely devoted to worker cooperatives. Submitted papers will go through the standard refereeing process and an overall number of 5 to 8 papers will be selected for this issue.
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7th International Workshop on cooperative finance and sustainable development | Registration is now open
16-17 June 2016, Trento, Italy
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), will be held in Trento, Italy on June 16th and 17th, 2016, at the Faculty of Economics.
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New strategies for Co-operatives
The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) 2016 international research conference “New strategies for Co-operatives: Understanding and Managing Co-operative Creation” will be held from the 24th to the 27th of May in the Palacio del Congresos en El Toyo, Almeria, Spain.
Euricse contributed to the scientific planning of the event and eight researchers will attend the conference. Giulia Galera, Jacopo Sforzi, Carlo Borzaga, Chiara Carini, Michela Giovannini, Silvia Sacchetti, Eddi Fontanari and Yiorgos Alexopoulos will present their research with nine papers during five different sessions. Moreover, Giulia Galera and Jacopo Sforzi will coordinate a special session dedicated to “The role of Cooperatives in promoting the interest of the community” (Wednesday the 25th of May, 11:15-13:00), while another session coordinated by Giulia Galera will be dedicated to the European project INT.RE.COOP (Friday the 27th of May, 9:00-10:30).
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Participate in the 2016 World Co-operative Monitor!
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.
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The extended governance of cooperative firms: inter-firm coordination and consistency of values
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”.
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New JEOD publication
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.
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ILO academy on Social and Solidarity Economy – 6th edition
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.
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Call for papers | ICA 2016 International research conference [new deadline]
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.
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Key findings from the World Co-operative Monitor 2015
The fourth edition of the World Co-operative Monitor, analyzing data from 2013, highlights the size and importance of the co-operative sector across the globe.
The overall database this year exceeds all past editions reaching 2,829 co-operatives from 76 countries with a total turnover of 2,950.82 billion US dollars.
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