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
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
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, 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
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
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
PRESS RELEASE 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
PRESS RELEASE Venice, March 16 2012 First statements from keynote speakers on the economic importance of the cooperative model Read More
PRESS RELEASE Venice, March 16 2012 An appeal presented in Venice during an international conference on cooperatives asks the European Union to focus on funding the real economy in order to overcome the economic crisis Read More