The TIMES Project participated in the 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, “Sustainable development through social enterprise, co-operative and voluntary action”, organized by EMES – International Research Network, in partnership with the FairShares Institute for Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship (FSI) and the Center for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) July 24-27 at Sheffield Hallam University. EMES conferences are one of the main meeting points in the world for all researchers involved in the study of social business, social entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy from all over the world.
The TIMES team presented 3 works:
Social enterprise challenged boundaries in Portugal: inside an outside the social and solidarity economy, Silvia Ferreira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Trajectories and characteristics of social enterprise models in Portugal, Patrícia Moura e Sá (University of Coimbra) e Joana Almeida (Center for Social Studies)
The social enterprise ecosystem in Portugal: enabling and constraining factors influencing the development of different models of social enterprise, Hugo Pinto (Center for Social Studies) e Luara Maranhão (Center for Social Studies)