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Mapping study on social enterprise ecosystems: the first seven reports are available
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.
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Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: two new OECD publications
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.
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Tackling the migration and refugee challenge
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.
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Euricse celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new book
“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.
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Conhecer para Cooperar, Salvatori in Brazil
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…
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How the 300 largest cooperatives are moving forward to achieve the SDGs
World Cooperative Monitor, Report 2018 highlights
by Bruno Roelants and Gianluca Salvatori
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Progress and challenges on the road to 2030. An interview with Giovannini
"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.
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World Cooperative Monitor: new ranking of the world’s 300 largest cooperatives
The 2018 edition is available. Focus on the SDGs
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse), published today its seventh annual World Cooperative Monitor. The report paints a picture of the scale and strength of the global cooperative movement and reports on the world’s largest cooperative and mutual organisations, providing a ranking of the Top 300 and sectorial analysis based on 2016 financial data.
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“Tackling the migration and refugee challenge”
How to Complete your Registration for the Research Workshop
We only have a few weeks left and the WG 2 Research Workshop Programme of our EMPOWER-SE COST ACTION is ready. The Research Seminar “Tackling the migration and refugee challenge” will take place on November 22 – 23, 2018, at the University of Trento (Department of Sociology and Social Research). As the workshop approaches, the organisers collected some practical information about the venue, how to get to the venue, about hotels and other useful information. First step: please complete this form. Remember that we have created hashtags for the social media that you can use: #WG2socentmigration and #EMPOWERSE_COST and you can use @euricse, @emesnetwork and @COSTprogramme to tag the organizers.
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JEOD: the new issue of the review is out
"Social innovation in social enterprises: what is going on?"
The new special issue "Social innovation in social enterprises: what is going on?" (Volume 7, Issue 1) of the international scientific Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (JEOD) is now available online.
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10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Responsible Finance for Development
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 of EACB (the European Association of Co-operative Banks), will be held in Trento, Italy on June 20th and 21st, 2019.
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Social Economy, Salvatori in the European Commission’s expert group
Gianluca Salvatori, Euricse Secretary General, has been appointed member of a new expert group on "Social Economy and Social Enterprise” set up by the European Commission's Social Business Initiative (SBI). The purpose of this new group will be to discuss and agree on developing and strengthening activities related to the development of the potential of the social economy and social enterprises, aiming to promote innovation and positive impact on the economy and society at large. The expert group’s actions will focus on 5 pillars: access to finance, access to markets, better framework conditions, new technologies and social innovation, as well as the development of an international dimension.
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