EMES benefits from the accumulated experience, expertise and reputation of all its members who are among the leading research centres and individual researchers in the field of the Third Sector and social enterprises. Since its inception in 1996, EMES has completed eight major research projects.
EMES network has undertaken major research projects in the fields covered in the Focus area described in this website; they are listed below grouped by focus area.
WILCO aims to examine through cross-national comparative research how local welfare systems affect social inequalities and how they favour social cohesion with a special focus on the missing link between innovations at the local level and their successful transfer to and implementation in other settings. The results will be directly connected
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View MoreThe "REScoop 20-20-20 project" aims to improve social acceptance of RES-e generation ("RES-e" standing for "electricity from renewable energy sources") with its proven model of local cooperative citizen involvement. RES-e projects face manipulation by associations that fight the common good for their activists’ (per
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View MoreFunding "Interuniversity Attraction Poles" (IAP) has been the major type of support provided by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) for the last 25 years. Proposals for IAP are submitted every five years by networks formed by several research teams from various Belgian universities across all disciplines; they aim to foster interu
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View MoreAgainst the background of economic crises, weakening social bonds and restructuring of the welfare state, almost all industrialised countries are currently witnessing a growth in the so-called ‘social economy’. Next to the business private and public sectors, the social economy (also referred to as ‘third sector’) embraces a wide range of c
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View MoreThis project aims to: identify the legal/fiscal/administrative hurdles that might hinder the establishment and scaling-up of social enterprises in the health, agriculture and education sectors in Egypt; produce recommendations for removing these barriers and for improving the performance of the legal framework governing social enterprise; design so
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