Building international knowledge on the third sector and social enterprise
2014
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 Octobre 15th, 2013, 113 individual researchers in 32 countries have joined EMES
11 United Kingdom
4 Norway
2 The Netherlands 4 Denmark
4 Sweden 2 Finland 1 Russia
3 Canada 4 Germany
1 Ireland
1 Austria
11 Belgium
1 Romania
1 Portugal
9 United States
1 Poland 5 Japan
1 Bulgaria 1 Lebanon
1 Mexico 6 Spain
7 Italy 5 Switzerland 4 France 1 Ethiopia
1 Kiribati
2 Taiwan
1 India
1 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1 Singapore
2 Australia
1 Chile
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 for Social Entrepreneurship Roskilde University (DK) Centre for Co-operative Studies Univ. College Cork (IE)
Centre de Recherche et d’Information sur la Démocratie et l’Autonomie Paris (FR)
CESIS - Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social Lisbon (PT)
Center for Social Economy Univ. of Liege (BE)
Centro de Investigación de Economía y Sociedad Barcelona (ES)
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Travail, État et Société Catholic Univ. of Louvain (BE) Co-operatives Research Unit Open Univ., Milton Keynes (UK) European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises Univ. of Trento (IT) Institute for Social Research Oslo (NO)
Södertörns Högskola Huddinge (SE) Institute for Civil Society Studies Ersta Sköndal Univ. College (SE) Finish Social Enterprise Research Network, FinSERN (FIN) Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, LEST Univ. of Aix-Marseille (FR)
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 TSI Project, Third Sector Impact, 7th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2014-17
ICSEM Project, International Comparative Social Enterprise Models, SOCENT-IAP. 2013-18
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
promoting inclusion, PROGRESS, European Commission. 2007-09
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
ELEXIES Project, on social integration enterprises in Europe, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission. 2002-03
PERSE Project, on the socioeconomic performance of social enterprises in the field of workintegration, 5th Framework Programme, European Commission. 2001-05
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
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
WISEs Project, on work integration social enterprises as tools for
RESEARCH CONFERENCES
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
EMES International Conferences on Social Enterprise.
Training programs in more than ten European universities. EMES PhD Summer Schools.
EMES-ISTR International Research Conferences. France, 2005 and Spain, 2008. 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.
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. 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. New Public Governance, the Third Sector and Co-Production Pestoff, V., Brandsen, T. & Verschueren, B. (eds.), Routledge, London/New York, 2012. Civicness in the Governance and Delivery of Social Services Brandsen, T., Dekker, P. & Evers, A. (eds), Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2010. Impresa sociale e capitalismo contemporaneo Laville, J.-L. & Larosa, M. (eds), Sapere2000, Rome, 2009. 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.
EVENTS & EDUCATION
Italy, 2009, Denmark, 2011, Belgium, 2013 and Finland, 2015.
PUBLICATIONS
France, 2008, Denmark, 2010, Italy, 2012 and Romania, 2014.
EMES DIALOGUE EMES PhD Student Network (with its own blog and regular communication).
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
Director Rocío Nogales
EMES scholars are frequently used as experts by organisations like the European Commission, the UNDP, the OECD, 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.
info@emes.net
Contact information of all EMES members is available in the section “About us” at www.emes.net
EMES has conducted over a dozen 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). c/o University of Liège Bd du Rectorat, B33, box 4 4000 Liège (Sart-Tilman) Belgium
EMES faculty members organise BA, Master, Executive Master and PhD courses and programmes in social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.
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The major international conferences organised by EMES as of 2013 had a combined attendance of some 1,800 participants from more than 50 countries, with over 350 paper and panel sessions presented.
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EMES publications are downloaded an average of 1,200 times monthly.
EMES website receives annually over 155,000 visits.
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 (including one led by Harvard Business School) as well as in East Asia.