The full Conference call, including a description of the 10 thematic lines and the submission procedure, has been published. In addition, we would also like to remind you that the submission period just opened today and it will be open until January 9, 2017.

The theme of the 6th EMES International Research Conference being "Social enterprise for sustainable societies", paper presentations and discussions will revolve around the role of these innovative practices in helping overcome the current crisis. The core question about whether social enterprises promote institutional economic diversity and democracy or whether they contribute to the weakening of solidarity, through the marketization of society will be tackled throughout the Conference programme.

The Conference will take place on 3-6 July 2017 at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

We have also prepared two documents to help participants prepare their participation, "How to get to Louvain-la-Neuve" and "Accommodation opportunities". You can download these documents on the Conference page.

Event hashtag: #6EMESconf

Here's a short update on this unique Conference entitled "Solidarity economy and social enterprises" coming up in less than three months. The submission period for the Conference just finished and over 150 contributions were received from researchers, mostly from Latin America and Europe.

This Conference is jointly organized by EMES, RILESS, and Unisinos and it will that place at the Unisinos' São Leopoldo Campus.

Plenary lectures will be combined with working groups organized around six thematic areas and in three different languages (Portuguese, Spanish, and English).

All the information about registration and program is available here.

Event hashtag: #1RILESSEMESconf

 

As preparations for the final event of the project are under way, the long-awaited article with a revised definition of the third sector stemming from the project was published in the August issue of the journal Voluntas. The article by Salamon and Sokolowski is accompanied by a symposium with comments from several major scholars, including EMES former president, Jacques Defourny, and current president, Marthe Nyssens. Two other EMES members, former president, Lars Hulgård and Victor Pestoff, have another article on participatory governance in social enterprise.  The issue contains various other articles on social enterprise, social innovation and hybridisation, testifying to the growing significance of these research topics (read more).

Project Twitter (@TSI_EU) and Facebook page.

 

Three new pages describing three ICSEM international events have recently been made available:

Visit these new pages to discover information and pictures about these 2016 ICSEM events.

Project hashtag (#ICSEMproject) and ICSEM Twitter (@ICSEMproject). 

Co-SIRA: Co-produced social innovation research agenda finally online
   

In August 201, EMES embarked on a collaborative effort to give researchers the opportunity to co-create a future research agenda on social innovation (co-SIRA), bringing a variety of stakeholders to the table.

The objective of this endeavour, part of Social Innovation Europe, was to stop repetition and overlap in research and effectively address the remaining gaps by collecting and reviewing research approaches used in social innovation research: where we stand with research on these topics and what is necessary. We presented the result of this joint effort... (read more).

Hashtag: #coSIRA

"Social Innovations in the Urban Context" reaches an impressive download figure   
 

This book edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers and Annette Zimmer is the final output of the WILCO project. The book is available via Springer link open access (read more).

Hashtag: #WILCOfinalbook

New EJEB post by Sandra Ramos on the notion of failure in social enterprises
 

The EMES Junior Experts Blog (EJEB), which aims to feature the ongoing work of PhD students from the EMES PhD Network, has just published a new post by Sandra Ramos. The title of Sandra’s contribution is “The role of human capital on the failure of social enterprises” and it describes her ongoing PhD thesis work looking into the idea of failure in the study of social enterprise. Please remember that as a visitor, EJEB allows you to post comments and exchange with the author and other PhD students.

Hashtag: #EJEBpost

The EJEB has a new coordinator!
 

We wanted to provide a warm welcome to Benedetta de Pieri as new coordinator of EJEB since last June. Benedetta is currently doing her PhD research at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at GCU and she accepted the appointment from the EMES PhD Student Network in the course of the 5th EMES PhD Summer School held in Glasgow. Her first post as EJEB coordinator is Sandra Ramos' one. Thank you Benedetta for your hard work as a volunteer to take the EJEB on to a new phase of interesting exchange and discussion!

Hashtag: #EJEBpost

 InnoSI International Workshop on Social Investment (October 6-7, 2016) (read more)