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Associate partners and supporters

We have support from the following organisations:

United Nations Alliance of Civilisations

OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Forum on Social Innovation (Chair: Andy Westwood)

Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK

 

Associate Partners

Network organisations

 
ENSIE

ENSIE (European Network of Social Integration Enterprises)

Gathers 23 national and regional networks of work integration social enterprises, representing 16 countries of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom) as well as Serbia and Switzerland. All these networks pursue, in a manner adapted to local constraints, objectives of social integration of disfavoured publics.

Together, they totalise some 2,400 Work Integration Social Enterprises, and more than 378,000 salaried persons.

This social economy project is important because in order to have sustainable WISEs. It is important to have qualified managers.

It is important to introduce the social economy sector in University courses

   

Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Associations (EMA)

LA EMA

The mission of the Latin American Chapter of EMA  is to create a network of Latin Americans participating in the European Erasmus Mundus Programme in order to improve the quality of their educational experience, to enhance the networking and professional opportunities after graduation, and to provide information for prospective Erasmus Mundus candidates coming from the Latin American region.

EMA Indian Indian Chapter of EMA - EMAInd unites all Indian students and alumni of Erasmus Mundus. The main objective of EMAInd is to promote the European Union as a centre of excellence in the field of higher education among Indians. EMAInd aims to work in tandem with Erasmus Mundus Association to enhance the visibility and attractiveness of European higher education in India
EMA European

European Chapter of EMA. The chapter unites EMA members from the following countries: EU member states, Albania, Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey.

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The mission of the African Chapter of EMA  is to serve the interests of Erasmus Mundus prospective candidates, students and alumni from Africa. The Chapter’s goals is to promote EMA activities through organisation of workshops, events, participation in educational fairs, networking to provide assistance to prospective applicants and newly selected EMA students to build networks and strengthen unity and friendship.

Middle-East_Chapter_EMA

Middle East Chapter aims to unify all Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni coming from the Middle East Region under one umbrella. Our mission is to help the students and graduates to improve their Erasmus Mundus experience.

We aim to promote Europe as centre of knowledge and to increase Middle Eastern's interest in the higher education in Europe.

 Realise it

REALISE IT is a joint initiative of Erasmus Mundus Association and OCEANS Network aiming at bringing together the innovative ideas, talents and enthusiasm of our members in the framework of international youth projects. It’s a unique platform for change-makers across EMA and OCEANS network to connect with one another, collaborate and exchange ideas, launch projects that can stretch across the world activating the networks by empowering the members of these associations to work on joint projects

   

Universities and NGOs

 
 

Africa

 
 

University of Abdelmalek Essaadi-Tetoauan, Morocco

 

University of Cape Verde -Dpto. de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

 

University of Huila, Angola

 

Fundação Educação Desenvolvimento, Guinea Bissau

INEP

The National Institute of Studies and Research (INEP), Guinea-Bissau

Founded in 1984, its main objectives are to promote studies and research in social and natural sciences related to the problems of development of Guinea-Bissau and contribute to the development of local human resources. The Centre for Socio-Economic Studies (CESE), one of the units of INEP: (i) promotes, executes and coordinates studies and research in the fields of economics, sociology and other related sciences, (ii) promotes studies and research on the socio-economic situation in Guinea-Bissau and disseminates them, (iii) organises conferences and seminars and other academic events aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge

   

America (North and South)

 

School of Public Administration, University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

 

ICA Associates, Canada

 

Western Illinois University, in Macomb, Illinois

 

Universidad Mayor Simon Bolivar, CESU, in Bolivia

 

Department of English-African Studies at the State University of Bahia in Brazil

 

Fundação Universidade Estadual do Ceará Mestrado Acadêmico de Políticas Públicas e Sociedade - MAPPS Rede de Pesquisa Observatório das Nacionalidades, in Brazil

ILLS

Las Segovias Institute of Leadership, Nicaragua

El Instituto De Liderazgo De Las Segovias (ILLS)

es una organización de la sociedad civil comprometido con los excluidos y excluidas, que con un enfoque de derechos busca un mundo más armónico vivible, en el que la felicidad sea una posibilidad siempre alcanzable para todos los sectores, y el ejercicio de la libertad responsable por personas y colectivos sea lo común

aceesa

The Centre for Solidarity Economy Studies of the Atlantic is a Private Social Solidarity Institution. The Regional Agency for Solidarity Economy and Local Development Initiatives – Cores is its social headquarters, located at the Region of Macaronesia, in the Azores archipelago.

The association’s main goals are to contribute to the promotion of surveys in the fields of Solidarity Economy, Social and Local Development and of the Social Integration Enterprises Network of the Azores; also, to undertake regional, national and international events concerning Solidarity Economy, Social and Local Development and Employment for Social Integration

   

Asia

University of Gujrat logo

Department of Psychology, and the Centre for Population, Urban and Environment Studies, University of Gujrat, Pakistan

The mission of the UOG is to equip the youth with excellent strategic, social, economic and psychological skills through scientific knowledge, training and research in all areas of life including corporate social responsibility, respect for diversity, human capital and universal human values. By developing into a world class centre of excellence in teaching and research in the industrial triangle of Gujranwala, Gujrat and Sialkot, the University aims to achieve high quality socioeconomic and psychological well-being of the region and the human welfare at large.

Contact: Dr Gulzar Ahmad, Professor of Psychology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan. T: +92-333-4321 989

 

ICA Nepal

   

Europe

Centre Formacio Florida Spain

Florida Universitària

in Catarroja, Valencia, Spain, is part of Florida Cooperative Education Group. It is affiliated to both the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University of Valencia and offers degrees and master Degrees.

 

It is a dynamic and innovative centre, which promotes the development of entrepreneurial attitudes among its students with the object of facilitating their integration into the professional world. Furthermore, it is focused on the creation of knowledge by bridging theory and practice and also, on cooperative enterprise. Contact: Inmaculada Mora Orti

University of Porto

The University of Porto is currently the largest education and research institution in Portugal. It is also the leading producer of science in Portugal, with 2308 indexed articles in the ISI Web of Science in 2009, representing 22% of the articles produced in Portugal, and an annual growth rate of 13% since 2005.
 
Considering international cooperation, UP was in 2011 the choice of 3380 international students from 98 different countries from all continents. These numbers are the result of a long tradition of cooperation with higher education institutions. 

 

University of A Coruña

 

Initiatives of Change, Switzerland

 

Initiatives of Change, UK

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Institute of Cultural Affairs, Spain.

NGO enabling people to achieve positive social transformation through teaching and practising Technology of participation (ToP)  methods of participation. Its role in this project is to transfer its methods, techniques and tools into the methodological framework of the project whenever it is applicable.

 

Catholic univ Porto

Catholic University of Portugal, Oporto, Portugal.

The Porto Regional Centre (UCP-Porto) of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) has about 6000 students and 600 faculty members at several faculties (Arts, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Business School, Health Sciences, Law, Economics and Management, Education and Psychology, Government and Public Politics and Theology). There are two trans-disciplinary units promoting collaborative projects across campus in the fields of entrepreneurship and social economy.

The first of them is Spinlogic, at the heart of which is an incubator that was launched more than 10 years ago. This incubator now supports more than 120 business projects.

The other one is the Transversal Social Economy Area, which manages about thirty projects including a Master programme in Social Economics, training programmes for managers and other staff of social economy organisations, research projects on social innovation and  the social economy, and community projects.