Building international knowledge on the third sector and social enterprise
2015
EMES is an international network of research centres and individual researchers on the third sector and social enterprise. Since April 2013, EMES membership is open to individual scholars from all world regions while it maintains a core of European research centres at its heart.
Researchers by country
As of June 25th, 2015, 256 individual researchers in 40 countries have joined EMES 3 Norway 3 Sweden
14 United Kingdom 1 Luxembourg 3 The Netherlands 4 Denmark
9 Finland 2 Russia
3 Canada
1 Latvia 5 Poland
1 Ireland 17 Belgium 6 United States 1 Mexico
1 Serbia 1 Hungary
5 Germany
1 Korea
1 Austria 1 Romania
1 Portugal
1 Bulgaria 1 Lebanon 1 Israel
1 Slovakia 9 Spain
8 Japan 3 China
1 Taiwan
1 India
5 Greece 1 Czech Republic 1 Brazil
1 Singapore 1 United Arab Emirates
19 Italy 2 Switzerland
1 Indonesia
6 France 2 Australia
1 Chile 1 South Africa
In addition to the individual members captured in the map, EMES includes the following institutional members: AICCON - Research Centre on Cooperative and Non Profit Organizatios Univ. of Bologna (IT) Centre de Recherche et d’Information sur la Démocratie et l’Autonomie Paris (FR) Center for Social Economy Univ. of Liege (BE)
Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Roskilde University (DK)
Co-operatives Research Unit Open Univ., Milton Keynes (UK)
Finish Social Enterprise Research Network, FinSERN (FIN)
Centre for Co-operative Studies Univ. College Cork (IE)
European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (IT)
GCU Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health (UK)
Institute for Social Research Oslo (NO)
Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, LEST Univ. of Aix-Marseille (FR)
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Travail, État et Société Catholic Univ. of Louvain (BE) Centro de Estudos Sociais, CES Coimbra University (PT)
Institute for Civil Society Studies Ersta Sköndal Univ. College (SE)
EMES has a strong global position and cooperates with centres of excellence in Asia, North America, Latin America and Africa. Its goal is threefold:
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to build a corpus of theoretical and empirical knowledge around social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social economy, solidarity economy, social innovation, and the third sector;
t o provide scientific evidence of the evolution of social enterprise and active citizenship in an integrated Europe, where these play a central role;
to reinforce its position at the global level and increase cooperation with centres of excellence on all continents.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
ICSEM Project, International Comparative Social Enterprise Models, SOCENT-IAP.
Social Enterprise and the Third Sector. Changing European Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective Defourny, J., Hulgård, L. & Pestoff, V. (eds), Routledge, London & New York, 2014.
2013-18
WISEs Project, on work integration social enterprises as tools for promoting inclusion, PROGRESS, European Commission. 2007-09
TSI Project, Third Sector Impact, 7th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2014-17
Social Innovation Europe III (SIE), European Commission
Study on Promoting the Role of Social Enterprises in CEE and the CIS, United Nations Development Programme’s Bratislava Regional Centre (UNDP-BRC). 2006-08
2014-2016
REScoop 20-20-20 Project, Fostering Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy Sources by Stakeholder Engagement, Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation, European Commission. 2012-14
Legal Assessment of the Social Entrepreneurship Framework in Egypt, World Bank. 2012
ILO-EMES project on the informal economy. 2011-13
WILCO Project, Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of Cohesion, 7th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2010-13 RECOSET Project, Research Network on Cooperative and Social Enterprises in Transition Contexts, Marie Curie Action, European Commission. 2010-12
Civicness in the Governance and Delivery of Social Services Brandsen, T., Dekker, P. & Evers, A. (eds), Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2010.
2002-03
Impresa sociale e capitalismo contemporaneo Laville, J.-L. & Larosa, M. (eds), Sapere2000, Rome, 2009.
PERSE Project, on the socioeconomic performance of social enterprises in the field of workintegration, 5th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2001-05
Child care Project, on childcare services in Europe, 5th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2001-04
Third System and Employment, with CIRIEC International, Third System and Employment Pilot Scheme, DG V, European Commission. 1999-2000
EMES Project, on the emergence of social enterprise in Europe, 4th Framework Programme, European Commission. 1996-99
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
EMES International Conferences on Social Enterprise.
Training programs in more than ten European universities. EMES PhD Summer Schools.
Social and solidarity economy in an international perspective. Brazil, 2009.
International Conference on Social Enterprises in Eastern Asia. Taiwan, 2010 and Korea, 2013.
Sino-Europa Forum. Hong Kong, 2010.
EMES-Polanyi International Seminar. France, 2012; France, 2016.
Social Enterprise: A new model for poverty reduction and employment generation. An examination of the concept and practice in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Borzaga, C., Galera, G. & Nogales, R. (eds), UNDP/EMES, Bratislava / Liege, 2008. Co-production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services Pestoff, V. & Brandsen, T. (eds), Routledge, London / New York, 2007. Social Enterprise. At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society Nyssens, M. (ed.), Routledge, London / New York, 2006. * Dictionnaire de l’autre économie Laville, J.-L. & Cattani, A. D. (eds), Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2005. Also published in Portuguese (Almedina, Coimbra, 2009), Spanish (Editorial Altamira, Buenos Aires, 2009) and Italian (Sapere2000, Roma, 2006). The Third Sector in Europe Evers, A. & Laville, J.-L. (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004.
RESEARCH CONFERENCES
EMES-ISTR International Research Conferences. France, 2005 and Spain, 2008.
New Public Governance, the Third Sector and Co-Production Pestoff, V., Brandsen, T. & Verschueren, B. (eds.), Routledge, London/New York, 2012.
ELEXIES Project, on social integration enterprises in Europe, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission.
EVENTS & EDUCATION
Italy, 2009; Denmark, 2011; Belgium, 2013 and Finland, 2015.
Social Vulnerability in European Cities. The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis Ranci, C., Brandsen T. & Sabatinelli, S. (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014.
France, 2008; Denmark, 2010; Italy, 2012 and Romania, 2014.
EMES DIALOGUE EMES PhD Student Network (with its own blog and regular communication).
EMES Alumni Network Academic member of the UN InterAgency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) Academic member of the European Commission Expert Group on Social Entrepreneurship (GECES)
Trends and Challenges for Co-operatives and Social Enterprises in Developed and Transition Countries Borzaga, C. & Spear, R. (eds), Edizioni31, Trento, 2004. The Emergence of Social Enterprise Borzaga, C. & Defourny, J. (eds), Routledge, London / New York, 2001.* Also published in Korean (Sigma Press, Seoul, 2009), Japanese (Hyoronsha Publishers, Tokyo, 2004), and Italian (Edizioni31, Trento, 2001). Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe. The contribution of the Social Economy Spear, R., Defourny, J., Favreau, L. & Laville, J.-L. (eds), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001. * Available in hardcover and paperback version. EMES Working Papers Series (37 papers) and EMES Conferences Selected Papers Series (125 Conference Papers)
EMES FACTS
President Prof. Lars Hulgård Roskilde University, Denmark hulg@ruc.dk
Board of Directors Carlo Borzaga University of Trento, Italy Taco Brandsen Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Jacques Defourny HEC-University of Liege, Belgium Jean-Louis Laville CNAM/LISE, France Marthe Nyssens Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Mary O’Shaughnessy University College Cork, Ireland Michael Roy Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
EMES scholars are frequently used as experts by organisations like the European Commission, the UNDP, the OECD, the European Economic and Social Committee, and numerous national and regional governments. EMES work is quoted in legal documents and policy programmess in states as different as Italy, Poland, Korea, Finland, and Greece, as well as by the European Commission. EMES has conducted over a fifteen research projects major European research projects spanning over 14 years, that have mobilised over 125 researchers in more than 25 countries. EMES works have been published in and translated to eight languages (Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish). EMES faculty members organise BA, Master, Executive Master and PhD courses and programmes in social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. The major international conferences organised by EMES as of 2015 had a combined attendance of some 2,100 participants from more than 50 countries, with over 500 paper presented. EMES publications are downloaded an average of 1,200 times monthly. EMES website received in this period over 54,525 visits.
Roger Spear Open University, United Kingdom Director Rocío Nogales info@emes.net
Contact information of all EMES members is available in the section “About us” at www.emes.net
c/o University of Liege Bd du Rectorat, B33, box 4 4000 Liege (Sart-Tilman) Belgium
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YEARS
INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
Since 1996, when an international group of scholars launched the first research network devoted to social enterprise.
The institutional pillars of EMES, leading research centers acting together to carry out influential collaborative research.
Tel.: +32 (0)4 366 31 39 Fax.: +32 (0)4 366 28 51
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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
NETWORKS & PARTNERS
@emesnetwork
We believe in the power of connecting individual researchers around the world.
A solid network of partners and “sister organizations” that support the mission of EMES around the world.
facebook.com/emesnetwork www.youtube.com/ EMESResearchNetwork
On the basis of such achievements, EMES is more than ever recognised as the leading network of scholars in the third sector and social enterprise. It is also considered as a major partner by regional networks in North America and Latin America as well as in East Asia.