June 9th at 11.30 at the Jacques Delors Building (room JDE 63) BrusselsThe event will be dedicated to the presentation of the draft Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL), a research study conducted by Euricse's Study Group on European Cooperative Law (SGECOL). Read More
Quebec City, October 2014. The International Co-operative Alliance (the Alliance) - with the scientific and technical support of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) - launches the 2014 report of its global statistical project: The World Co-operative Monitor. Read More
The paper addresses new regulatory measures for the EU financial system and was discussed by Carlo Borzaga, Euricse president; Romano Prodi, economist and former president of the European Commission and the Italian Council; Sir Partha Dasgupta, economist at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics; and Alessandro Azzi, president of Federcasse. Read More
This document was prepared by the Board of Directors of EMES as a response to the notice of the European Commission “Social Business Initiative” [COM(2011)682/2]", October 25 2011, with the aim of presenting the standpoint of EMES, gathering the experiences and opinions of the main scholars working in the social enterprises sector. Read More
This document was drafted by the organizations that promoted the open letter to the European Commission titled “From Words to Action: Supporting Cooperative and Social Enterprises to Achieve a More Inclusive, Sustainable and Prosperous Europe.” The letter, signed by over 400 European academics, was officially presented to European Commissioners Michel Barnier and Antonio Tajani on October 13, 2010. Read More
This document was drafted by the authors of the open letter to the European Commission titled “From Words to Action: Supporting Cooperative and Social Enterprises to Achieve a More Inclusive, Sustainable and Prosperous Europe.” The letter, signed by over 400 European academics, was officially presented to European Commissioners Michel Barnier and Antonio Tajani on October 13, 2010. Read More
With this position paper, Euricse would like to emphasize the importance of mountain agriculture as one of the main avenues in achieving the sustainable growth objectives that are at the centre of today’s European agenda, and to lend our contribution to the conversation about the future of the Common Agricultural Policy. Read More
The main objective of the paper is to contribute to the debate on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by offering the point of view of an extraordinarily important part of the European agricultural and rural fabric, which is agricultural cooperation. Read More
More than 400 researchers and academics from 29 European countries signed the plea "From words to action: supporting cooperative and social enterprises to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable and prosperous Europe". The plea, originated from a Carlo Borzaga's initative (President of Euricse), was sent to the European Commission and takes the cue from the statements on the importance of social economy released by the Commissioners Michel Barnier and Antonio Tajani. Read More
The aim of this report is to reconsider the role of cooperatives in the context of the liberalization of public services, examining their suitability as an organizational form and analyzing Italian and European experiences in the sector. Read More
July 6th-11th, 2015, Bertinoro Residential Centre, University of Bologna Read More
CIRIEC - Portugal and CIRIEC - International (the International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy) are organizing the 5th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy that will take place next July the 15th to 18th 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. Read More