TIMES participates in the 3rd WG2 Research Workshop on “Unlocking the transformative potential of culture and the arts through SE”, University of Malta, Nov 04 – Nov 05, 2019, within the scope of COST Action EMPOWER-SE, with the presentation of one of the its case studies, the Movement DansasAparte of CERCIMA. The case study file […]
The Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) opens a public tender procedure for the attribution of 1 Research Scholarship (Licentiate degree), under the project «TIMES – Institutional Trajectories and Models of Social Enterprise in Portugal» (project No. 30612), reference PTDC/SOC-SOC/30612/2017 | POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030612, financed by FEDER – European Regional Development Fund […]
TIMES participated in the ESPANET Portugal conference (European Network for the Analysis of Social Policy), on the theme “Social Policy in Portugal Post Crisis and Austerity, Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, 13-14 September, organized by the Instituto de Sociology at the University of Porto. Silvia Ferreira presented the paper “Frontiers and contested […]
The Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) decides to open a public tender procedure to hire a PhD researcher to join the team of the project “TIMES – Institutional Trajectories and Models of Social Enterprise in Portugal” ( project No. 30612), reference PTDC/SOC-SOC/30612/2017 | POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030612, financed by FEDER – European […]
In the recent months we have had Ricardo Oliveira Ferreira, a student of the Degree in Sociology, in a Summer Internship of the University of Coimbra, for which he proposed. Ricardo has had contact with the sociological investigation within the project team, performing all kinds of tasks related to the case studies in progress, and […]
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 […]
Across Europe, organizations defined as social enterprises have become an increasingly important entrepreneurial form over the past few decades. Despite their growing policy attractiveness and the increasing interest in this model, social enterprises are disparately understood as a social phenomenon throughout Europe and their real size is still unknown in most EU countries. To clarify […]
As part of the 2nd Annual Political Economy Meeting dedicated to the theme “Democracy, Development, Inequality”, organized by the Portuguese Political Economy Association at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, from January 31st to February 2nd, the team from TIMES presented: “Social companies: a conceptual and contextual reflection of the Portuguese reality” […]
Within the scope of the meeting “Towards an international typology of social enterprise models: Progress, perspectives and common trends” organized by Working Group 1 (theoretical foundations of SE), of the COST EMPOWER-SE Action (Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars) , at the University of Corvinus, Budapest, on January 16th and 17th, the TIMES […]
The workshop “Social Enterprises: Concepts, Contexts and Research” was co-organized by the TIMES Project and CECES – Center for Cooperative and Social Economy Studies, in October 4th, 9.30-13.00, at FEUC. This workshop aimed to discuss approaches to the concept of social enterprise from national and international research experiences, evolving researchers who have worked on the […]