The Foundation for Socio-Economic Initiatives (Fundacja Inicjatyw Społeczno-Ekonomicznych – FISE) is organizing the third edition of the competition for the best social enterprise. Increasin...
The Portuguese National Institute of Statistics published last April the Satellite Account for the Social Economy with data referring to 2010. Unlike the previous edition published in 2011 with dat...
A recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review explores the benefits and challenges of cross-sector coalitions in addressing complex social problems. John Kania and Mark Kramer argue tha...
In March 2013 ResPublica published a new essay collection entitled ‘Making it Mutual: The ownership revolution that Britain needs.’ Within its pages, policy-makers and practitioners cal...
Social Innovation: blurring boundaries to reconfigure markets brings together some of the leading thinkers from the field of social innovation and provides a wide array of perspectives, insights an...
This is another blog-post in our thread about lessons learnt from the work with social welfare and other social economy organisations in Portugal. These organisations are under an increasing pressu...
In our previous blog-post we talked about the FAS Project, a nationwide training-action project of the confederation representing social welfare organisations in Portugal that has been going on sin...
This is a blog which explores what co-design looks like in Poland, examining the specific example of participation in a project involving children with complex needs. I have posted the first part o...
On Friday April 12, Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) and TEPSIE hosted a TelePresence discussion exploring the potential for mapping and measuring social innovation. We heard presentations from two...
Private social welfare organisations are, by far, the main providers of social welfare services in Portugal. According to the preliminary results of the Social Economy Satellite Account for 2010, t...