Project status: on going Description The project ECOOPE – Entrepreneurial Cooperative Experience – co-funded by the European Commission, launched in April 2017, aims to improve the employability of young people in Europe by providing them with relevant entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to promote the set-up of cooperatives. The… Read More
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 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
Project Status: on-going Description The Erasmus Plus project “Empublic – Enhancing self-employment and entrepreneurship of disadvantaged people through better relationships between the public and private sectors”, launched in September 2016, aims at increasing opportunities for education, business ownership and employment for disadvantaged individuals in the context… 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
June 9th at 11.30 at the Jacques Delors Building (room JDE 63) BrusselsThe event will be dedicated to the presentation of the draft Principles of European Cooperative Law (PECOL), a research study conducted by Euricse's Study Group on European Cooperative Law (SGECOL). Read More
Euricse collaborated with the Trento Agenzia di Lavoro on participation in the international group Social Entrepreneurship Network (SEN). 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
Euricse is one of the 100 partners from around Europe participating in Targeted Network/BESTPRAC, an action aimed at creating a network of technical and administrative staff working to support researchers involved in research projects. Read More
EU CoopC serves as a continuation of the Ariadne project, which concluded in 2012. The project developed out of the awareness of new training needs, responding to them by coming up with specific learning pathways for cooperative managers. Read More
Social economy organizations today face major challenges (mergers, competitive procurement, etc.) that must be tackled in particular by improving the professionalism of their managers. Read More
Since the 1980s, Western countries have seen a real turning point in terms of housing policy, with local communities becoming involved in the creation of residential neighbourhoods and services. This cultural transformation, aiming at putting inhabitants at the core of urban regeneration initiatives and housing, started to be considered not just a matter of building houses. This project intends to extend the general theory of the commons to the specific research area of housing. Read More