The study “New technologies and digitisation: opportunities and challenges for the social economy and social enterprises” sets out to explore how the rising importance of the social economy in Europe is facing the challenges of digital transformation. It focuses on whether, why, how, and to what...
Belgium’s social enterprise sector is influenced by seven main traditional and emerging roots and drivers. Associations, cooperatives and mutuals are three traditions that are often collectively highlighted as the social economy’s broad backbone. The (new) social economy is described as an emerg...
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) is a project commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) to promote the use of social considerations in public...
Buying for Social Impact (BSI) was a project commissioned by the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) and the European Commission Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) to promote the use of social considerations in publi...
In recent years, many initiatives and events have been carried out to develop pragmatic and participatory solutions to social and environmental problems that have been made more pressing by the crisis and have been addressed inadequately or not at all by either the market or the state....
The Social Economy is increasingly attracting the interest of policy makers and scholars alike, thanks to its capacity to tackle key social and economic issues. While the importance of the Social Economy has been recognised by the EU, its role in supporting local development in other continents ...
Before the COVID-19 outbreak put Europe and the world under unprecedented public health, economic and social stress, 2020 had started with continuing positive trends in the EU. Despite the deceleration of economic growth relative to 2018, throughout 2019, the EU had the highest employment in his...
Social enterprises in Denmark are mirrors of the dynamic interplay between state, market and civil society that has shaped the particularities of this type of welfare state. Accordingly, social enterprise does not yet exist as a field in its own right with a capacity to exist independent of fluc...
Social enterprises in Turkey have their roots in the Ottoman Empire's tradition of foundations which lasted from the 14th century to the early 20th century. During that period, people enjoyed services offered by foundations in several areas such as religion, education, health, urbanisation and m...
