A recognition of the Trentino research center’s international work Euricse has been admitted as observer to the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (TFSSE) founded in Geneva in 2013 to raise the visibility of the Social and… Read More
16-17 June 2016, Trento, Italy
The 7th Euricse Workshop on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Development, organized in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks) and with the support of EACB (European Association of Co-operative Banks), will be held in Trento, Italy on June 16th and 17th, 2016, at the Faculty of Economics.Workshop Programme Read More
Social Enterprise between social impact and financial needsYiorgos 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
The 7th Euricse Workshop on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Development, organized in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks) and with the support of EACB (European Association of Co-operative Banks), has taken place in Trento, Italy on June 16th and 17th, 2016, at the Faculty of Economics.
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Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises) announces that registration for the the Sixth Euricse international Workshop on Cooperative Finance and Sustainable Development is now open. The workshop, organized in collaboration with Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks) and with the support of EACB (the European Association of Co-operative Banks), will be held in Trento, Italy on June 18th and 19th, 2015. Read More
In order to fully harness the contribution of social enterprises (SEs) to societal wellbeing, inclusion and smart economic growth, their rationale and roles need to be better understood and subsequently translated into effective policies that are able to exploit their competitive advantages vis-à-vis public and for-profit enterprises. Read More
The availability of financial resources is often held to be one of the fundamental conditions for launching a new season of development for cooperatives and social enterprises. Particularly in regards to the latter category, debate has increased greatly in recent years, thanks in part to documents like the European Commission’s Social Business Initiative (COM2011 682) and other policy initiatives that have led to an increase in the number of actors – mostly from the private sector – who seem interested in investing in initiatives “with a high social impact”. Read More
The SVI project intends to provide support to social innovation and to introduce specific financial instruments for the “new” asset class of social enterprises. Read More
The current financial crisis has opened up new scenarios for the cooperative banking system – a system which on the one hand has intensified its support for businesses, while on the other has run up against the limits of its governance model. Read More
Are cooperative banks at a turning point? Many changes that have occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual. Read More
PRESS RELEASETrento, Sepember 26 2012Good news for European cooperative banking. After the European Banking Authority, now the European Commission, represented by the Commissioner responsible for internal market and services, Michel Barnier, has also responded positively to the appeal launched by Euricse in March, demanding that EU institutions pay more attention to local and cooperative banks. Read More