"Towards 2020, what will your co-operative look like?"
The International Co-operative Alliance's 2015 Global Conference will focus on key trends in politics, economic governance, trade and technology. The Conference will provide insights in the drivers behind those trends, and make the connection with the strategies of the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade.
3rd international conference on social and complementary currencies : social currencies in social and solidarity economies : innovations in development.
Depuis les années 1980, le monde associatif s’est fortement professionnalisé et l’emploi y a connu une exceptionnelle croissance. Aujourd’hui, près de 1,8 million de salariés travaillent dans les associations.
Alors que ces emplois semblent se maintenir malgré la crise, la question de leur qualité reste un défi à relever, tout particulièrement dans le contexte actuel de contraction budgétaire.
Ces 17 et 18 novembre, Rome accueillait une grande conférence autour de l’économie sociale. Organisée dans le cadre de la présidence italienne du Conseil de l’Union européenne, cette conférence fut précédée d’une consultation publique qui a permis, sur base de nombreuses contributions, de définir 10 groupes de travail. Plus de 600 personnes ont participé à l’évènement : acteurs de terrain, experts, politiques, etc.
The EMES International Research Network, in partnership with the Finnish Network on Social Enterprise (FinSERN), is pleased to announce the 5th International Research Conference on Social Enterprise entitled “Building a scientific field to foster social enterprise eco-system”. This unique research conference will be held in Helsinki (Finland) from June 30th to July 3rd, 2015.
Innovation sociale, ESS, entrepreneuriat social : de la perspective internationale aux actions locales.
CIRIEC - Portugal and CIRIEC - International have the pleasure to invite you to the 5th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy that will take place next July the 15th to 18th 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
ICA Research Conference 2015
PARIS May 27th – 30th 2015, AgroParisTech
Crisis highlighted that innovation, creativity on products, production process, governance and financing are essential elements of the productive organization to face problems and grow up. Cooperatives and social economy organizations have been in many occasions creative and innovative to all functional stages for the benefit of the members and the socio economic environment that they are engaged. The broad interpretation of cooperative principles gives cooperatives flexibility in designing their governance and financial structures, which are extremely efficient in the pursuit of global strategies. In such activity (agriculture, finance, heath, education…), cooperatives and mutual successfully innovate to adapt the social and economic crisis. What are their advantages and weaknesses?
