On 30th June the ILO will host an international conference on statistics of cooperatives, as part of the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base project. This conference will showcase the findings from the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity… Read More
Following the publication of the Transition Pathway on Proximity and Social Economy the European Commission launched a call to collect pledges from stakeholders on the concrete initiatives they will take in order to help achieve the shared actions identified in the Transition Pathway. Read More
On Friday, July 15th, the inaugural conference of the activities of the Monitoring Committee of the Luxembourg Declaration on Social and Solidarity Economy in Europe, under Italian presidency for 2022, was held in Trento. The event, titled The Social Economy: Primacy of… Read More
JEOD, the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity (https://euricse.eu/jeod/), is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal committed to ensuring the highest standards of publication ethics. All parties involved in the act of publishing (editors, authors, reviewers and the publisher) have to agree upon standards of ethical behaviour. We state the following… Read More
On the 15th of December Euricse organized an open webinar, “Unlocking the potential of social enterprises in Jordan” in the framework of the project “Mubaderoon for social changes”, aimed at promoting social enterprises as a high potential driver of socioeconomic inclusion of disadvantaged groups such as young people and… Read More
All over Europe, organizations defined as social enterprises have become an increasingly important entrepreneurial dynamic over the past few decades. However, the understanding of their current size, scope and development dynamics lags behind their proliferation and the rising interest they generate among policymakers, researchers and practitioners. Aware of this gap,… Read More
The paper, produced by the OECD and the European Commission, presents the issues and ongoing debates surrounding social impact measurement and provides concrete examples of measurement methods. Read More
World Cooperative Monitor, Report 2018 highlights by Bruno Roelants and Gianluca Salvatori Read More
"Cooperative enterprises are by nature a sustainable and participatory form of business: it is in their DNA" “Our task is to address the roots of each problem by building cooperation through the framework and tools of sustainable development”, according to Italian economist and former labour minister, Enrico Giovannini: spokesperson for the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, member of the global Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity, and Co-chair of the “Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” established by the Secretary General of the United Nationsand. Professor Giovannini in the seventh annual World Cooperative Monitor talks about the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Read More
The 2018 edition is available. Focus on the SDGs The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse), published today its seventh annual World Cooperative Monitor. The report paints a picture of the scale and strength of the global cooperative movement and reports on the world’s largest cooperative and mutual organisations, providing a ranking of the Top 300 and sectorial analysis based on 2016 financial data. Read More
Euricse is proud to present the Ecoope Toolkit, an online library of guides and resources on cooperative entrepreneurship teaching developed by Euricse and their 7 partners as part of ECOOPE, a project cofunded by the European Union. The documents will prove useful for teachers and Professors (vocational training and guidance,… Read More
A new book edited by Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi and Carlo Borzaga, published by Oxford University Press Handbook “Mutual, co-operative and co-owned business” is the title of The Oxford University Press Handbook edited by Jonathan Michie, University of Oxford (UK), Joseph R. Blasi, Rutgers University (USA), and Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento (Italy) is now available. The handbook analyses, describes, and explains the complex world of organisations that assign ownership rights and governance control to stakeholders other than investors. The complexity of this set of organisations results both from the different degree of control exerted by stakeholders in each typology, and from different legislative and regulatory frameworks that govern these organisational forms. Read More