Microcredits continue to enable Kenyan women to build their businesses. Thanks to Mike Calvert from York St John University for this update. Please click on the ‘Microcredits’ category on the… Read More »
Thank you to everyone who has completed our survey. So far we have responses from: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, East Timor, Germany, Guinea Bissau, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, San… Read More »
Universities can be laboratories for a new kind of economic development Professor Simon Denny from the University of Northampton, UK, has identified an important role for universities: delivering local economic… Read More »
By Natasha Almond, Founder of Living Interiors, York, UK and collaborator in the Social Economy in Higher Education Project York had a thriving voluntary, community and social enterprise sector; however,… Read More »
As well as teaching and researching about social enterprise and cooperatives, it is important that universities explore ways of practicing the social economy. In the case of cooperatives, these lead… Read More »
Research shatters the myth that social enterprises are more likely to fail than traditional start ups Download full report ‘Who lives the longest?’ by Professor Simon Denny from Northampton University,… Read More »
Update by Mike Calvert on the group of women from Nairobi who are expanding their businesses with micro-finance Those of you who are interested in the fortunes of the Nairobi… Read More »
Article written by Mike Calvert, York St John University, UK Time Banking is not a new concept and many of the blog’s readers will know of the history and development… Read More »
The network for the Social Economy in Higher Education project has expanded to another part of the world. In this case the selection of a Japanese organization: Caux Round Table,… Read More »
As part of the social economy in higher education project we are visiting the universities of several countries in Latin America. Our first visit has been to Pinar del Río… Read More »
Legislation has been passed in 2013 in the Basque Country in Spain allowing students to form workers’ cooperatives called ‘Junior Cooperativas‘. The aim is that these can be a real… Read More »
Former nurse starts social enterprise to enable people with dementia to live a good life. One of the chapters in the forthcoming handbook about teaching and practice of social economy… Read More »
By Edwar Reynaldo Arenas Rocha Edwar Reynaldo Arenas Rocha is Peruvian anthropologist who graduated in the University San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) in Peru. He is a member of… Read More »
Thank you to everyone who has completed our survey. So far we have responses from: Argentina, Colombia, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, San Tome, Spain, United Kingdom! and they include:… Read More »
The Social Economy in Higher Education project handbook will have a chapter on the importance of social capital to the social/solidarity economy. This article describes a women’s group in Kenya which… Read More »