AAR 2022
We have summarized the annual activity of EMES and its members in the Annual Activity Reports (AAR) and the Fact Sheets.
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See Strategic Plan 2019 – 2021
EMES is a research network of university research centers and individual researchers on social enterprise. Together, we aim to build up a body of knowledge around our SE concepts:
Social Enterprise
Social Economy
Solidarity Economy
Social Entrepreneurship
This unique body of knowledge aims to be pluralistic in disciplines and methodologies while it continues to grow both theoretically and empirically.
We believe in the power of connecting established research institutions and individual researchers around the world to advance the SE fields. EMES seeks to intercommunicate each otherâs interests, publications and related information while exchanging opportunities for joint publications and research initiatives.
We have summarized the annual activity of EMES and its members in the Annual Activity Reports (AAR) and the Fact Sheets.
See all available AAR and Fact Sheets
See Strategic Plan 2019 – 2021
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YEARS
Since 1996, when an international group of scholars launched the first research network devoted to social enterprise.
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INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
The institutional pillars of EMES, leading research centers acting together to carry out influential collaborative research.
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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
We believe in the power of connecting individual researchers around the world.
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NETWORKS & PARTNERS
A solid network of partners and "sister organizations" that support the mission of EMES around the world.
EMES has existed since 1996, when an international group of scholars formed a research network that had been financed by the European Union. Having reached an unusual level of mutual understanding, trust and a common perspective of working together, a community of researchers sprang off from this working experience.
EMES takes its name from the French title of its first research project, âLâEMergence de lâEntreprise Sociale en Europeâ (The emergence of social enterprises in Europe) completed between 1996 and 2000. Formally established as a non-profit association (ASBL under Belgian law) in 2002 EMES was originally composed of European university research centers and individual researchers. After many years of collaborative research and projects jointly conducted with researchers from other regions, EMES decided in 2013 to open its membership to researchers from around the world.
The current Board of Directors of EMES is composed of 13 members who were elected in October 2015 as a result of the first open member election of the network. This election marked the completion of the implementation of the 2013-2015 strategic planning process.
The Coordination Unit includes a full time Director, a Financial Officer and ad hoc Project and Communication Officers.