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
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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
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Venice, March 16 2012
First statements from keynote speakers on the economic importance of the cooperative model Read More
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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
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Trento, March 6, 2012
Cooperatives' potential role in the reform of the dominant economic model to be discussed at a conference in Venice, 15-16 March, 2012
What effects will the financial crisis have? Will Europe be able to move beyond the negative economic trends and radically transform its social and economic development model? And what contribution can cooperative enterprises and the social economy in general bring to the new geopolitical context? Read More
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Trento, February 19, 2012
As David Cameron announces new legislation promoting cooperatives, a conference on 15-16 March brings international debate on the issue to Italy Read More
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Trento, February 13th 2012
A scientific and topical round-table discussion on their contribution to reforming the dominant economic model will be held in Venice, 15-16 March Read More