31 August 2017

Event: “Innovative social investment: finding new routes to make social rights real”

Friday 13 October 08:30-14.30 Open event: "Innovative social investment: finding new routes to make social rights real" Location: Louvain (Brussels) This free event marks the close of the Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening Communities in Europe (INNOSI). The Horizon2020 funded project looks at innovative approaches to social investment across 10 European countries drawing on 20 in-depth case studies, econometric analysis and user voice. It also included a foresight project to...
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27 July 2017

Social Innovation Community Summer School: study visits

Article by Sara Goldoni, Training and Education Coordinator From June 26th to June 30th 2017 the University of Bologna, member of the Social Innovation Community, hold the second Summer School on Social Innovation, with a focus on the role of regions as possible ecosystems for social innovation. AICCON– Italian Association for the Promotion of the Culture of Co-operation and of Nonprofit, a research center on Social Economy,...
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17 June 2017

6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise

EMES, in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Work, State and Society (CIRTES, Université catholique de Louvain) and the Social Enterprise Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP), are pleased to announce the 6th EMES International Research Conference on the theme “Social enterprise for sustainable societies” which will take place on July 3-6, 2017, at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). The aim of this...
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19 April 2017

Social Innovation Community Summer School

The University of Bologna (Department of Architecture and Department of Economics), in collaboration with AICCON, is pleased to announce the second edition of the Social Innovation Community Summer School (SUMSIC 2017), which will be held at the University of Bologna from June 26th to June 30th > “Regions as Social Innovations Ecosystems? History, culture and institutions”. This second edition is organised in partnership with AEIDL, DRIFT,...
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14 March 2017

The 14th Workshop on Social Economy for Young Economists

The Workshop is intended to give young economists a chance to meet and discuss their work on Social Economy, and to stimulate interaction with peers and tenured scholars. Theoretical, empirical and experimental papers on topics such as social capital, social norms, cooperative and social enterprises, social preferences, and relational goods are welcome. If you are interested in presenting, and you are at most 35 years old,...
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20 February 2017

The new equitable pioneers of platform cooperativism

Paolo Venturi (Aiccon-University of Bologna), Flaviano Zandonai (Iris Network- University of Trento) Is it necessary to climb up the “internal areas” of central Italy mountains in order to search for the Holy Grail of platform cooperativism? Are “community cooperatives” hiding by having vague fantasy names such as “Valle dei Cavalieri” (The Knights Valley)? Perhaps yes, waiting for a more precise delineation of an authentically collaborative...
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2 February 2017

Call for Abstracts – 6th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy

From November 29 to December 3, 2017 at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus (Brasil), will be held the VIth International Research Conference on Social and Solidarity Economy with as general theme "Social and Solidarity Economy, Sustainability and Innovation: facing former and new social issues”. Researchers interested in presenting a communication or in coordinating a session dedicated to a specific topic are invited to submit...
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31 January 2017

Open 2017: a conference on Platform Cooperatives

On 16-17 February, Open 2017: Platform Cooperatives will bring the discussion about platform co-ops to the UK, in an event that will gather thinkers, practitioners and new ideas around the digital economy. Organised by the Open Co-op LLP, a partnership between United Diversity, Focal Point Marketing and Events and Defacto Design, Open 2017 includes speakers Brianna Wettlaufer (co-founder and CEO of Stocksy United) and Emer Coleman (founder of disruption Ltd,...
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12 January 2017

1st IESE-LUISS Conference on Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship

1)      SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The Conference is about how organizations cope with reaching different goals at the same time, it is about social enterprises in all forms, their organization, performance, survival, impact, revenue and business model. We welcome research that looks at social enterprises from a wide range of perspectives, unveiling the organizational, strategic and accountability challenges faced by businesses that aim to combine social/environmental...
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30 September 2016

International Workshop on Social Investment

Members of the InnoSi consortium and other top experts from around Europe in the area of social investment will participate in a two-day workshop at the University of Bologna on the 6th and 7th October, 2016. The worskshop will include presentations of the latest research on the social investment paradigm and round table discussions with leading academics and practitioners. AGENDA Thursday 6th October | 14:00 – 15:30 | Session...
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