Social cooperatives and for-profit enterprises in Trentino, new areas for collaboration

How can work integration social cooperatives and for-profit enterprises develop a deeper collaboration to further promote the work integration of disadvantaged people? Euricse’s new project focused on production chains and job opportunities will provide cooperatives and local enterprises with guidelines to establish new forms of collaboration. The first fourteen partners took… Read More

WP 88 | 16 Social Enterprise: Social Co-operation in the Italian Welfare System and its Reproduction in Europe

This paper aims to investigate one of the first, if not the first, social enterprises in Europe, the Italian social cooperative. It begins with an analysis of the economic and social context of the 1970s that gave rise to this form of cooperative. This is followed by a statistical analysis, starting with the first survey conducted to monitor the phenomenon and concluding with the most recent statistical data. Read More