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 the report is to examine the regeneration of real estate for collective interest purposes, focusing on the conversion of railway properties into facilities for the reception and initial assistance of homeless individuals. Read More
July 6th-11th, 2015, Bertinoro Residential Centre, University of Bologna Read More
The aim of the conference is to point out experiences of cooperatives and social economic organizations on creativity and innovation. For that, the conference wants to bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from different cooperative and social economic fields and from different countries to debate about the amazing creativity that cooperatives harness to innovate and to develop new solutions for their members. 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
On November 17th-18th, Italy launches a participatory and policy-oriented conference on Social Economy. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
El objetivo del estudio fue comprender la dinámica organizativa y el potencial de las organizaciones de base de recolección de residuos en el área metropolitana de Santiago de Chile para pasar de una situación de informalidad, asociada a la idea de economía popular, a la capacidad de incorporarse como organizaciones más estructuradas en el contexto de la economía social y solidaria. Read More
This paper describes the role of social enterprises and social cooperatives as a type of nonprofit economic organization that is assuming an increasingly central role in Europe (as demonstrated, for example, by the Social Business Initiative recently launched by the European Commission), contributing to its economic and social growth. Read More
In the European and Italian landscape, community enterprises are emerging, under different institutional forms, as key players in urban regeneration processes. The paper proposes an analysis of the Italian context proceeding from institutionalized organizations to less formal ones: community cooperatives, social enterprises and urban commons linked to social movements. Read More
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October 10, 2013
A new site for promoting the database, with innovations including journalistic reports, analyses and case studies
Offical launch will be at the International conference in Cape Town Read More