Jan 13, 2022

The third and last Empower-SE podcast episode: Approaching Social Enterprise from an Ecosystems and Governance Perspective

We are happy to present the third and last episode of the “Empowering Social Enterprise Research Podcast”. In this episode, we lift our gaze to the context in which social enterprises emerge and operate. We explore the concept of ecosystem,...

Dec 29, 2021

The EMES documentary supported by COST Action is online!

In the last two years, many activities and initiatives had to be postponed or even cancelled as a result of the pandemic. These have been challenging times for science in general and, of course, for EMES as well. Still, research...

May 19, 2021

Join the 2nd webinar of the "ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" series aimed at PhDs!

Nervous about attending conferences where everyone seems to know each other, except for you? Tired of seeing Zoom-name-blocks that represent people, without actually meeting those people? Feeling isolated, tired and a bit fed up with Covid-19 and how it has...

May 05, 2021

Social Enterprise in Croatia: Charting New Territories

The idea behind the «One day, one team, one chapter…» series is to present the four books published in the framework of the ICSEM Project and the Empower-SE Action, Social Enterprise in Asia, Social Enterprise in Latin America, Social Enterprise...

Apr 21, 2021

Social Enterprises in Bulgaria: Historical and Institutional Perspective

The idea behind the «One day, one team, one chapter…» series is to present the four books published in the framework of the ICSEM Project and the Empower-SE Action (Working Group 1), Social Enterprise in Asia, Social Enterprise in Latin America, Social...

Feb 17, 2021

"ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" webinar series aimed at PhD: sign up now!

Navigating the process of searching for, applying to and presenting at scientific conferences is tricky. All those thematic lines to choose from, and then the pressure of writing and delivering a good presentation? Who needs the extra pressure! But conferences...

Dec 23, 2020

"Recent developments in social economy and social enterprise research: Keys from an international perspective" RIESISE special issue just published

Social economy and social enterprise research, taken into account as approaches that help us to understand the challenges that our societies are facing, and the role that citizens have on them, has increased during recent decades. International and national research...

Dec 20, 2020

Successful first research workshop on social enterprise and sports

More than 20 participants from nine countries (Australia, Croatia, (Republic of) Georgia, Italy, Norway, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom) attended the "Sport as community builder: Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in sports" online workshop on December 11th. The presence of...

May 25, 2020

New Empower-SE Podcast episode: How social enterprise is shaping health, migrant integration and culture

One of the beautiful things about podcasts is that all that is needed is the human voice. The human voice is a simple and powerful medium for stories. And the human voice can travel all over the world without its...

Dec 13, 2019

A New Centre for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at The School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland.

A new centre for social innovation was established in November at the University of Iceland by two EMES members: professors, Ómar H. Kristmundsson (Faculty of Political Sciences) and Steinunn Hrafnsdóttir (Faculty of Social Work). The objective of the centre is...

Nov 13, 2019

New series of EMES Selected Conference Papers launched

The 7th EMES Selected Conference Papers (ESCP) series is now published following the last conference in Sheffield in June 2019. The texts were selected based on the evaluation of the session chairs and this initial batch is composed of 18...

Sep 26, 2019

Learning about social enterprises across geographic contexts at the 7^th EMES Conference

As we are in the final stages of finalizing the Conference Report from our past #7EMESconf, here's an account that our member Rasheda L. Weaver generously wrote down for us that we wanted to share with you. We thank her...

May 15, 2019

Empowering the SE-research community! New scientific opportunities

In our previous post, we mentioned how proud and grateful we felt about what had been achieved in this Action during the previous months. In this one, we would like to build upon such positive emotions and share our enthusiasm with...

May 10, 2019

Looking back before moving on! Accomplishments of a completed phase

When the Management Committee first met in Brussels in 2017, it knew that the SE community needed more networking and scientific opportunities. Although new international research workshops, training school, seminar would certainly meet SE-researchers expectations, they were far from expecting...

Jan 28, 2019

Living and sharing an EMPOWER-SE meeting through a researcher's eyes

As you know, we like sharing what we do to advance research but, most of all, we love when those who make this research community a reality share their impressions with us. This is the case for the meeting we...

Jan 11, 2019

Looking at welfare societies in transition through Polanyian lenses: Papers available to download

A total of 13 papers have been published as part of the 3rd EMES-Polanyi Seminar held in Roskilde in April 2018. As we explained in a previous post, the energy gathered in this seminar was really hard to capture but these...

Dec 03, 2018

Sharing practices and approaches to tackle the migration and refugee challenge in Europe

The WG2 COST Research Workshop “Tackling the migration and refugee challenge” organized in the framework of the COST Action EMPOWER-SE, succeeded in creating a fruitful discussion forum among over 40 researchers coming from 15 diverse EU countries, who are studying...

Nov 30, 2018

Second Wave of STSM grants

As you already know, our COST ACTION relies on multiple Networking Tools. Among them, Short-term Scientific Visits (STSM) have proven to be of interest to some of our members. Previously, we had the pleasure to introduce the first four STSM scholarship grantees: Ignacio Bretos, Natasha Gjorevska,...

Jul 30, 2018

"Feels like home to me": A Faculty Members' view on the EMES Training School

It's always the hardest part to capture the added value that a network like EMES creates for researchers involved in the vast research area covered by social enterprise and related topics like third sector, voluntary associations, social and solidarity economy,...

Jul 18, 2018

EMPOWER-SE Calls for papers: ICSEM and WG 1 Calls

We are thrilled to open two calls for papers. Such opportunities do indeed bring us much enthusiasm as they directly support the mission of our EMPOWER-SE COST ACTION. Not only do they promote the development of original knowledge on SE models but...

May 03, 2018

How to gain our (research) consciousness back: On the impossible task of summarizing the 3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar

Opportunities to actively be stimulated, learn and connect to like-minded and committed fellow researchers do not abound. The third edition of the EMES-Polanyi Seminar, this year co-organized by the EMPOWER-SE COST Action, has confirmed to be a rare moment of...

Dec 04, 2017

Coming together to strengthen the community around social enterprise research

As announced last September, EMES won the EMPOWER-SE Action granted by the COST Association. A total of 35 countries are now formally part of the management body of this project (the “Management Committee” or MC) plus 10 near-neighbouring countries and international partner countries.

Sep 29, 2017

Upcoming COST Action on the next generation of social enterprise researchers and emerging countries

EMPOWER-SE was awarded last June to EMES through the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) framework after a hard selection process where over 700 proposals where received and only 35 were funded.

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The third and last Empower-SE podcast episode: Approaching Social Enterprise from an Ecosystems and Governance Perspective

The EMES documentary supported by COST Action is online!

Join the 2nd webinar of the "ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" series aimed at PhDs!

Social Enterprise in Croatia: Charting New Territories

Social Enterprises in Bulgaria: Historical and Institutional Perspective

"ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" webinar series aimed at PhD: sign up now!

"Recent developments in social economy and social enterprise research: Keys from an international perspective" RIESISE special issue just published

Successful first research workshop on social enterprise and sports

New Empower-SE Podcast episode: How social enterprise is shaping health, migrant integration and culture

A New Centre for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at The School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland.

New series of EMES Selected Conference Papers launched

Learning about social enterprises across geographic contexts at the 7^th EMES Conference

Empowering the SE-research community! New scientific opportunities

Looking back before moving on! Accomplishments of a completed phase

Living and sharing an EMPOWER-SE meeting through a researcher's eyes

Looking at welfare societies in transition through Polanyian lenses: Papers available to download

Sharing practices and approaches to tackle the migration and refugee challenge in Europe

Second Wave of STSM grants

"Feels like home to me": A Faculty Members' view on the EMES Training School

EMPOWER-SE Calls for papers: ICSEM and WG 1 Calls

How to gain our (research) consciousness back: On the impossible task of summarizing the 3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar

Coming together to strengthen the community around social enterprise research

Upcoming COST Action on the next generation of social enterprise researchers and emerging countries

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About EMPOWER-SE

News

The third and last Empower-SE podcast episode: Approaching Social Enterprise from an Ecosystems and Governance Perspective

The EMES documentary supported by COST Action is online!

Join the 2nd webinar of the "ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" series aimed at PhDs!

Social Enterprise in Croatia: Charting New Territories

Social Enterprises in Bulgaria: Historical and Institutional Perspective

"ZAZ 2021 Map and Compass" webinar series aimed at PhD: sign up now!

"Recent developments in social economy and social enterprise research: Keys from an international perspective" RIESISE special issue just published

Successful first research workshop on social enterprise and sports

New Empower-SE Podcast episode: How social enterprise is shaping health, migrant integration and culture

A New Centre for Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at The School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland.

New series of EMES Selected Conference Papers launched

Learning about social enterprises across geographic contexts at the 7th EMES Conference

Empowering the SE-research community! New scientific opportunities

Looking back before moving on! Accomplishments of a completed phase

Living and sharing an EMPOWER-SE meeting through a researcher's eyes

Looking at welfare societies in transition through Polanyian lenses: Papers available to download

Sharing practices and approaches to tackle the migration and refugee challenge in Europe

Second Wave of STSM grants

"Feels like home to me": A Faculty Members' view on the EMES Training School

EMPOWER-SE Calls for papers: ICSEM and WG 1 Calls

How to gain our (research) consciousness back: On the impossible task of summarizing the 3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminar

Coming together to strengthen the community around social enterprise research

Upcoming COST Action on the next generation of social enterprise researchers and emerging countries

Subscribe to the news alert and stay updated.

Learning about social enterprises across geographic contexts at the 7^th EMES Conference