TIMES team participated in the 8th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprises co-organized with COST Action EMPOWER-SE, “Social enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action: Bringing principles and values to renew action“. The Conference took place at the University of Zaragoza, in Teruel, from 4 to 8 October, and was locally organized by GESES (Group of […]
Within the scope of the recent changes in the Master’s Degree in Social Intervention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MISIE), at the University of Coimbra, a curricular unit on Management of Social Organizations and Enterprises was created in the 2nd semester of the 1st year. Thus, the theme of social enterprises is reinforced, being also addressed in […]
TIMES participated in the Virtual Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, which took place from the 12th to the 15th of July. Sílvia Ferreira presented a paper on “Portuguese social enterprises institutional trajectories in tackling social and societal challenges”.
As part of the program of conferences on Social Economy, on the 13th and 14th of July, organized by the Cascais Municipality, CASES and the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, in partnership with the Cascais Social Network and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra , in the context of the European capital […]
Introduction Social enterprises (SE) are a phenomenon that is deserving growing attention at the academic, political and civil society levels all over Europe. SEs are bringing innovations in the organizational forms of the social economy and its sectors of activity, articulating economic, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions, and orienting their missions towards social and societal […]
The article “The Variety of Social Enterprises in Portugal: from Institutional Trajectories to Organizational Characteristics” was published in Portuguese and English in number 12 of the Social Economy Magazine (April 2021), published by CASES – Cooperativa António Sérgio for Social Economy . The article discloses the results of the project, namely with regard to the […]
Between the 29th and 31st of March, TIMES participated in the XI Portuguese Congress of Sociology with the presentation of research results in the presentation “What are social enterprises in Portugal? Multidimensional approach to organizations in their trajectories and institutional contexts” by Sílvia Ferreira, Michela Giovannini and Pedro Fidalgo. This presentation took place in the […]
Within the scope of the ICSEM project – International Comparative Social Enterprise Project, COST Action EMPOWER-SE – Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars, and the TIMES project, we participated in the book Social Enterprise in Western Europe, organized by Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens, published by Routledge, with the articles: Chapter 11. Social […]
On the 21st of July 2020 a virtual meeting of stakeholders of the TIMES project will take place. The specific objective of this meeting is to discuss the project’s intermediate results with the stakeholders involved in the different project activities. Through a participative dynamic, we will seek to identify and debate relevant aspects about the […]
The TIMES team participates in the meeting “Towards an enabling ecosystem for social enterprises” on February 12th and 13th, at the University of Bucharest, Romania. this meeting takes place within the scope of work group 3 (Ecosystems) of COST Action EMPOWER-SE – Empowering the Next Generation of Social Enterprise Scholars. The team will participate in […]