Update of the mapping of social enterprises and their ecosystems in Europe

Together with the EMES International Research Network, Euricse has recently won the call for tenders launched by the European Commission (Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) for the “Update of the mapping of social enterprises and their ecosystems in Europe”.The objectives of the project are threefold.Firstly, it aims at updating the country reports on 21 EU countries that were published in 2014 as a result of the first mapping study promoted by the European Commission. Seven country reports had been updated during the second phase of the mapping study, carried out in 2016, which targeted seven EU countries.  Read More

Euricse participates in a European project aimed at promoting cooperative entrepreneurship

Euricse was endorsed by the European Commission to participate in a project that will analyse and implement entrepreneurship education programs based on the cooperative business modelThe initiative will promote a cooperative spirit and entrepreneurship skills of high school and university students from all over Europe in order to improve their employability. Trento, May 4th. The project ECOOPE - Entrepreneurial Cooperative Experience – co-funded by the European Commission with a total budget of over 300.000€ was launched in April 2017 with the aim of improving the employability of young people in Europe by providing them with relevant entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to promote the set-up of cooperatives. Euricse will bring their expertise to this project together with six other institutions from Finland, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Read More

Meet Yiorgos Alexopoulos, research fellow at Euricse

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

WP 73 |14 De la Economía Popular a la Economía Social y Solidaria: el Caso de los Recicladores de Base en Santiago de Chile

El objetivo del estudio fue comprender la dinámica organizativa y el potencial de las organizaciones de base de recolección de residuos en el área metropolitana de Santiago de Chile para pasar de una situación de informalidad, asociada a la idea de economía popular, a la capacidad de incorporarse como organizaciones más estructuradas en el contexto de la economía social y solidaria. Read More

Social Housing Open Book

Since 2010, Euricse has engaged in a research and local action process centered on social housing. Over time the range of activities has widened, testifying to the importance of this issue in Trento and its province. Read More

Final Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE) Part II

The second part of this final study contains, ordered by country,national reports by the national experts involved in this research; each national report is written in accordance with the guidelines provided by the scientific committee to guarantee the uniformity of contributions and the presence therein of relevant information on both SCE regulation implementation and national cooperative legislation. Read More