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

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

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

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

Allora Crealo! (Jobs? Create them!)

Euricse is organizing the 3rd edition of Allora Crealo! The event, which will take place during the Festival of Economics, will be held in Trento’s Piazza Fiera from May 29 to June 2. Read More

ICA Research International Conference The future of the Cooperative model: creativity, innovation and research

The aim of the conference is to point out experiences of cooperatives and social economic organizations on creativity and innovation. For that, the conference wants to bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from different cooperative and social economic fields and from different countries to debate about the amazing creativity that cooperatives harness to innovate and to develop new solutions for their members. Read More