Books
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CO-PLANNING AND CO-DESIGN. STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE AGENDAS
This text is an essential guide for practitioners and managers of public and third sector services, providing a comprehensive toolkit for the effective adoption of the new collaborative tools.
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THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE REVOLUTION. FOR A RENEWED PROTAGONISM OF CIVIL SOCIETY
A biography of social enterprise both to encourage the adoption of policies that enhance the renewed prominence of civil society and the reacquisition by social enterprises of full awareness of their own specificity.
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GIVING SPACE. CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC POLICY
"Giving Space" explores how the Third Sector, over 40 years, has influenced political institutions by promoting values such as inclusion and reducing inequality, emphasizing the importance of its political vocation in shaping the future of social policies.
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Work integration and network contracts
The book aims to strengthen the relationships between work integration social cooperatives, private companies and identify strategies to foster the employment inclusion of people with employment difficulties, with a focus on the network contract and tools such as facilitated secondment and codatoriality.
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Third sector and public administration. The turning point of the Constitutional Court
Ruling 131/2020, which has become the essential point of reference for defining the relationships between public bodies and ETS, is commented on by seven prestigious signatures of academics and prominent personalities of the social economy in the first Euricse instant ebook.
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The twilight of reception. The management of reception dynamics in the Autonomous Province of Trento before and after the Security and Immigration Decree.
The research investigates the migrant reception system in the Trentino economy in light of the changes introduced by the 2018 Security Decree.
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Public administration and the third sector. Boundaries and potential of new instruments of collaboration and public support
The issue of the relationship between public entities and third sector entities for the performance and organization of social services and activities of general interest has become central in the scholarly debate following the enactment of the so-called Third Sector Code (Legislative Decree No. 117 of 2017). The contributions collected in this volume highlight the challenges and opportunities posed by the current regulatory framework, with the aim of providing new keys to interpretation and new interpretative perspectives.
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Alpine refugees. Immigration at the heart of Europe.
This book is based on empirical and theoretical investigations, action research implemented in large European Union projects, and exploratory case studies and histories of hosting initiatives.
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Cooperatives to rediscover. Ten countercultural theses
This volume aims to investigate the perception of the cooperative world through a timely analysis carried out by Euricse has collected some of the most relevant research findings produced in recent times.
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Community enterprises. Institutional innovation, participation and local development.
How do community enterprises function and what are their founding features? Beginning with an empirical analysis conducted by Euricse, this volume illustrates their main characteristics-governance, legal forms, financial aspects, relationships with local public bodies-and examines their effectiveness as a tool for local development.
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Cooperative Enterprises in Australia and Italy
This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of co-operatives in the two countries. Specific comparative chapters focus on consumer, credit, and worker-producer co-operatives.
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Principles of European Cooperative Law
The Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL) focus on the ‘ideal’ legal identity of cooperatives. Drafted by a team of legal scholars (Gemma Fajardo, Antonio Fici, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Deolinda Meira, Hans-H. Münkner and Ian Snaith) gathered around Study Group on European Cooperative Law –(SGECOL), who’s work and…
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White paper. Community cooperation. Actions and policies to consolidate practices and unlock the potential for community entrepreneurship
The goal of the book is to demonstrate the existence of a universe of initiatives that identify with the cooperative economy, to summarize the basic elements of a community cooperative, to clarify its specificities, and to develop a framework of interventions geared toward promoting the emergence and consolidation of this new business model.
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Social enterprises as a bottom-up dynamic
The thematic section of the last number of a scientific review “International Review of Sociology” (Volume 26, Issue 1, 2016) was curated by Euricse researchers Carlo Borzaga, Giulia Galera and Luca Fazzi. Over the past decades,…
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Social Economy Law
The main purpose of this volume is to introduce the reader to the legal concept of social economy, as it is being formed at the European level, also in order to assess its relationship to more familiar notions and formulas in the national context, such as that of "Third Sector."
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Social transformation for social innovation
The volume brings together texts, analysis and examples on social transformation through social innovation. The chapter edited by Euricse researchers is titled "Europe in transition: the role of cooperative and social enterprises."
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International Handbook of Cooperative Law
The International Handbook of Cooperative Law has just been published. The book represents a fundamental instrument for training and research, especially comparative, in the area of cooperative law.
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Social economy and social enterpreneurship – Social Europe Guide
The Social Europe guide is a bi-annual publication aimed at providing an interested but not necessarily specialised audience with a concise overview of specific areas of EU policy in the field of employment, social affairs and inclusion.
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The potential of the social economy for local development in Africa: an exploratory report
This exploratory study provides an overview of the Social Economy in Africa and its potential for local development, in particular in four African coutries: Ghana, Marocco, Ethiopia and Kenya.
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Banche di Credito Cooperativo e sviluppo locale
The book "Banche di Credito Cooperativo e sviluppo locale", is part of the collection "I Quaderni di CoperniCo" a book series deriving from the project Formazione Identitaria.
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Efficient inclusion
Is it possible to get disadvantaged people back to work? And does it make sense to do so today, in the years of job insecurity, when the phenomenon of unemployment and exclusion from the labor market is affecting increasingly large groups of individuals? These questions were attempted to be answered by a recent research paper published in the volume "Efficient Inclusion: the Experience of Social Cooperatives for Job Placement".
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Financial cooperatives and local development
This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development.
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Good work. Social cooperatives in Italy: stories, values and experiences of people-friendly enterprises
The social cooperative is a passionate enterprise, a business with soul, but above all a form of organization that has stood the test of time and accumulated useful knowledge and experience to face even the uncertain future of our country and its welfare. This book discusses social cooperatives, 20 years after the founding law No. 381/91.
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Social Housing Open Book
Since 2010, Euricse has engaged in a research and local action process centered on social housing. Over time the range of activities has widened, testifying to the importance of this issue in Trento and its province.
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Social Enterprise: A New Model for Poverty Reduction and Employment Generation
This publication is the result of a joint United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and EMES European Research Network project.
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Trends and challenges for co-operatives and social enterprises in developed and transition countries
Recent years have witnessed a new interest in co-operative organisations, especially as a consequence of their transformation and expansion in new fields of activity. These two phenomena are connected, since transformation appears to be the prerequisite for expanding activities in new areas and as such, are worthy of specific analysis.
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