This policy brief summarizes the main outcomes of the four Working Groups (WGs) - Theoretical Foundations of SE (WG1), SE Industries and Impact (WG2), SE Ecosystems (WG3), Training and Dissemination (WG4) - from the perspective of the stakeholders involved. All WGs succeeded in stimulating a lively exchange of perspectives among researchers and practitioners and contributed to empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars. The perspective of different categories of stakeholders was well included in all events organized so as to foster a fruitful dialogue and contribute to mutual understanding between geographical and disciplinary points of view.

This Stakeholder Brief summarises the discussions that took place during the fifth meeting of Working Group 2 “Exploring new industries”, held in Zagreb in June 2021 as part of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE). Co-organised by the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Science) and the research centre LEST from CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, the meeting focused on “Changing social enterprises in changing territories: a multi-level perspective”.

This Stakeholder Brief is a summary of the debates that emerged in the Research Workshop “Sport as a community builder: Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in sports” of Working Group 2 (“Social enterprise in industries”) of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE), held online on 11 December 2020.

Ce Stakeholder Brief présente de manière très synthétique les résultats du Projet ICSEM pour l’Europe.

This Stakeholder Brief summarises the results of the ICSEM project for Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe.

This Stakeholder Brief summarizes the debates among stakeholders, mainly practitioners and academics, during the stakeholder forum that opened the first meeting of Empower-SE Working Group 3 devoted to social enterprise (SE) ecosystems organized in February 2020 at the University of Bucharest (Romania).

This Stakeholder Brief summarizes discussions that took place during the first activity of the fourth Research Workshop of Working Group 2 “Social enterprise in industries” of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE) held at the University of Malta in November 2019.

This Stakeholder Brief is a summary of the debates that emerged in the second Research Workshop of Working Group 2 (“Social enterprise in industries”) of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE), held at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in February- March 2019.

This Stakeholder Brief provides an overview of the main topics discussed in the COST Empower-SE meeting in Budapest, “Towards an international typology of social enterprise models: Progress, perspectives and common trends”.

The second research workshop of the Working Group on fields of activity of social enterprises (WG2 “Industries”) was co-organized by Euricse, the EMES Network and the University of Trento on November 22-24, 2018.