2nd Annual CIRIEC Conference - Call for Papers
Date/Time: October 1, 2009 9:00am - October 2, 2009 4:47pm
Location: Östersund, Sweden - International
2nd International CIRIEC Research Conference on the Social Economy
The world is undergoing rapid and extensive changes associated with globalization, conflicting ideas about the roles of the State and the reconfiguration of communities. The financial crisis that was followed by market decline and the fear of a world wide recession demonstrated the vulnerability and interlinkage of the global market and its national economies. In this context of decreasing markets, the role of Social and Public Economy is more of interest in the public discussion.
The Social Economy contribution to local and regional sustainable development, to the welfare system and to entrepreneurship and job creation becomes more evident and important. Social Economy in this context is made of co-operatives, mutuals, non-profit organisations like associations and foundations and contains several approaches that can be of use to individuals in local communities, social entrepreneurs, policy makers, community activists and researchers.
The 2nd International CIRIEC Research Conference, which will take place October 1-2, 2009 in Östersund, Sweden, will focus on the developments within the theme, “The Social Economy in a world facing a global crisis”. During the two conference days, researchers and practitioners from different parts of the world will come together and create new knowledge and awareness on different Social Economy models e.g. in Eastern Europe and Russia, in Africa, North and South America, Asia or other world regions, its relation towards social capital, regional development, social innovation, community and social entrepreneurship.
This conference follows the great success of the 1st International CIRIEC Research Conference on Social Economy in Victoria, Canada, 2007.
The Mid Sweden University, the City of Östersund, SISE/CIRIEC-Scandinavia and CIRIEC International invite you to participate and present the most recent developments within the international research on Social Economy.
After the huge success of the first edition of the conference in Victoria (Canada), October 2007, we once more rely on your participation.
The organisers invite researchers from universities, specialist research centres and practitioners from the Social Economy to take part in the conference and submit abstract proposals relevant to the thematic streams of the event.
The abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words long and include a bibliography. Abstracts shall be submitted preferably in English until 2009/02/15 in order to simplify the work and selection procedure for the Scientific Committee. However optionally we will accept them as well in French, Spanish or German. The abstract shall be submitted by uploading (copy and paste) on the following webpage.
Please find the call for papers with detailed information on the conference streams and on how to submit your abstract at: http://www.ciriec.ulg.ac.be/en/pages/0_1presentation.htm
Additional information can be found on the conference website:
http://www.socek.se/ciriec_research_2009
