Euricse joined the Spatial Productivity Lab at the OECD

Euricse joined the Spatial Productivity Lab at the OECD Trento Centre together with an international network of other leading research institutions such as the University of Trento, the Bank of Italy, Sheffield University and Ohio State University. Euricse will focus on the field of social economy… Read More

UN Inter-Agency task force on SSE, the International Conference in Geneva

The General Secretary of Euricse, Gianluca Salvatori, participated on the 25th and 26th of June at  International Conference on SSE in Geneva. This event is part of a series of conferences resulting from the Call for Papers “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy?” launched… Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

Meet Yiorgos Alexopoulos, research fellow at Euricse

Social Enterprise between social impact and financial needs Yiorgos Alexopoulos is researcher at the Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) and Senior Research Fellow at Euricse in the framework of the project “Research in Social Enterprise, its social impact and its financial needs”(RiSE GRIT). The project is awarded by a Marie Curie Action – Intra-European fellowships for Career Development (IEF), 7FP. Read More

Personalisation and Social Entrepreneurship, a concluding analysis

We report some concluding comments on the European Summer School on Social Economy, from Dina Rakin* Two years ago I have heard for the ESSE Summer School from my dearest colleague. “Since you are curious about the social economy world and you are into questioning so many aspects of it, this school is for you”, she said. And she was right. Simple explanation, maybe too obvious. Read More

European Summer School on Social Economy, the second day described by Dina Rakin

Dina Rakin* shares her impressions on the second day of the European Summer School on Social Economy in Bertinoro. Dennis R. Young and Silvia Ferreira, lecturers of the day, were committed to place the concept of personalisation into the existing theory and practice of Non-Profits, mainly Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship. User is the key word. How the type of financing of Social Enterprise and its legal form influence users and how the characteristics of a social entrepreneur respond to the users! Read More

The co-operative advantage

The Co-operative Advantage, edited by Ed Mayo, is a blueprint for a future social economy in the UK and draws on research over three years with co-operative business experts, advised by Professor Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, an internationally recognized authority on sector development. Read More

Social and solidarity economy academy – 5th edition

The theme of the 5th edition of the ILO Academy on social and solidarity economy will be "Social innovation in the world of work". The ILO global constituents, development partners in South Africa and other stakeholders have been involved in the discussion of the related sub-topics in order to ensure that the content of the Academy is demand driven based on the challenges and needs in Africa and elsewhere. Read More