This research project stems from the realization that in Italy there is a dearth of official statistical information on the cooperative sector, in spite of the important role that this sector plays...
This project, begun in mid-2010, investigates how innovation is articulated within social cooperatives, differentiating between product, process, sector and end user innovations. The...
  Carlo Borzaga, the president of Euricse, launched an appeal on behalf of the community of experts from the cooperative world yesterday in Venice, during the international conference on...
Throughout all of 2012 Euricse and ICA will publish one story of cooperation per day on a dedicated website. These stories - in words, photos and videos - aim to demonstrate how widespread, lively,...

Publications

In this paper, we investigate whether capital structure differs between for-profit and nonprofit sectors by focusing on two key aspects of the latter:...
Le società di mutuo soccorso sono comparse in Europa tra il XIX e il XX secolo. Si tratta di una delle prime forme di solidarietà della...
The future scenario highlights a Western leadership challenged while the geo-economy seems to be moving back to a pre-Industrial Revolution setup. Aga...
La Provincia Autonoma di Trento ha da tempo avviato il processo di riordino delle Aziende Pubbliche di Servizi alla Persona (A.P.S.P.), con l’in...

Projects

  The World Co-operative Monitor is a project designed to develop a ranking of the biggest co-operatives and mutual organizations...
The ‘Observatory’ aims at collecting, organizing and analyzing statistical data relating to cooperatives at the n...
The project unfolds in two different parts: + the first aims at analysing the means by which B-type cooperatives integrate production,...
The aim of this project is to study the economic impact of the Italian cooperative system within the context of the national economic f...

News/Events

June 14th and 15th, 2012 - Trento Registrations are now open for the Third Euricse Conference on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable De...
8-9 Novembre, 2012, Bolzano (Italy) L’Istituto per lo Sviluppo regionale e il Management del Territorio dell’Accademia Euro...
June 22 |23, 2012 Faculty of Philosophy | Cika Ljubina, 18-20, room 101 Belgrade | Serbia This event is aimed at creating a lively disc...
Thursday May 31st, 2012 at 3 P.M. Sala Seminari Euricse (Via San Giovanni, 36) Zohreh Emami, professor of Economics at Alverno College...