The 6th EMES Conference will host this unique Transdisciplinary Forum, with several sessions related to the social and solidarity economy and social enterprises. This Forum is for you, speakers and participants coming from non-profit organisations, cooperatives, umbrella organisations, public and private sectors, and training and education centers.
Everyone is invited to share their reflective experiences and discuss challenges on multi-sectoral collaboration.

This international conference would not have been possible without the support of the following organizations. Our full appreciation goes out to them as they contribute to the mission of EMES and to strengthening the growing community of social enterprise researchers.

EMES has teamed up with relevant publications in the fields related to social enterprise to offer publishing outlets to authors presenting completed conference papers at the Conference. In addition to ongoing submission opportunities, conference papers will have the option of being fast-tracked for selection in the publications included below; in some cases, journal editor-in-chiefs are considering the possibility of publishing special issues as well.

The Conference has two co-chairs, Marthe Nyssens (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Carlo Borzaga (University of Trento/ EURICSE, Italy).

Can social enterprise help overcome the current crises? Issues such as growing social inequalities, massive unemployment, the lack of economic democracy, and environmental unsustainability have increased the global expectations of social enterprises. Each in its own way, governments, civil society actors, non-profit leaders as well as the business sector, are seeking to discover, or rediscover, new possibilities of promoting economic approaches while targeting social aims. Indeed, examples of social enterprise and initiatives to support these goals have dramatically increased.

We have prepared some instructions for you on how to best prepare your paper or poster presentation for the Conference.