Social Innovation in rural areas
On January 17th and 18th, we were in Burgos for the kick-off meeting of the Horizon Europe project ESIRA (Enhancing Social Innovation in Rural Areas), supported by the European Commission. Read More
Summer School: opportunity for PhD students and early-career researchers!
Emes International Research Network, in collaboration with Euricse, is organizing the 9th edition of the EMES International training school, to be held in Trento, Italy, from June 30th to July 4th, 2024. Read More
Workshops on Social Innovation
The SEED partners have designed the national competence centres and they will unveil the pilot projects in a series of upcoming events. The launch of the Italian case will be preceded by a series of online capacity building workshops, focused on planning and implementing social innovation projects organized by the Politecnico di Milano. Read More
WP 116 | 20 The “Care is Home” experience: a partnership between public, private and citizenship for innovation in home care support
The paper addresses the issue of home care support for the frail elderly whose needs are not adequately addressed in formal provision and often not even within the family. Read More
Coop cinema, a trip around the world
A trip around the world in three webinars recounting the cooperative economy through the work of Around the World.coop and commentary from Euricse. "Coop cinema" is a series of online events from October to December featuring screenings of a selection of documentaries produced by Sara Vicari and Andrea Mancori, each followed by reflections from our researchers on the key themes, such as cooperative models, governance, the future of work, and local development. Read More
UN Inter-Agency task force on SSE, the International Conference in Geneva
The General Secretary of Euricse, Gianluca Salvatori, participated on the 25th and 26th of June at International Conference on SSE in Geneva. This event is part of a series of conferences resulting from the Call for Papers “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy?” launched… Read More
WP 105 | 18 Urban regeneration and social innovation: The case of Gillet Square, a community-driven urban culture project
This article focuses its attention on the inner cities and asks questions on their possible redevelopment. In particular, the question concerns the social innovation of these projects. Read More
WP 85 | 16 The Role of Nonprofit Institutions in Provinces with Greater Employment Fragility
This paper, through data from the Census of Industry and Services and key employment statistics, will attempt to identify the territorial and/or sectoral areas most exposed to the fragilities that the crisis has highlighted, in order to analyze, precisely in these areas, the role and innovati va capacity of the nonprofit sector. Read More
Social transformation for social innovation
The volume brings together texts, analysis and examples on social transformation through social innovation. The chapter edited by Euricse researchers is titled "Europe in transition: the role of cooperative and social enterprises." Read More
The co-operative advantage
The Co-operative Advantage, edited by Ed Mayo, is a blueprint for a future social economy in the UK and draws on research over three years with co-operative business experts, advised by Professor Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, an internationally recognized authority on sector development. Read More
Euricse at the 5th EMES International research conference on Social Enterprise
Following the Pre-conference forum, the 5th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise “Building a scientific field to foster social enterprise eco-system” has officially started today with the plenary session “Social Enterprise and the third sector: Changing landscapes in an international perspective” chaired by Marthe Nyssens, founding member of the EMES European Research Network and Professor at the University of Louvain. Read More
Social and solidarity economy academy – 5th edition
The theme of the 5th edition of the ILO Academy on social and solidarity economy will be "Social innovation in the world of work". The ILO global constituents, development partners in South Africa and other stakeholders have been involved in the discussion of the related sub-topics in order to ensure that the content of the Academy is demand driven based on the challenges and needs in Africa and elsewhere. Read More