Associate partners and supporters

The social and solidarity economy project gained 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

We are also grateful to the following people who are contributing their expertise to the social/solidarity economy project:

• Natasha Almond (UK): field research and networking
• Olavo Bilac Cardoso (Centre for African Studies, University of Oporto/Cape Verde): networking and facilitating field research in Cape Verde
• Mike Calvert (York St John University, UK): articles about social economy in UK and Kenya; networking; translation (Spanish to English) 
• Francisco Blanco-Encomienda (University of Granada, Spain): data analysis
• Sara Garrido (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Oporto, Portugal): transcriptions of interviews
• Enrique Gutierrez (Spain): translation (English to Spanish)
• Charles Hanks (UK): field research, writing articles and translation (Spanish to English)
• Vasillca Jeremias (Professional of the Non-Governmental Organization for Development TESE – Engineers Without Borders, Mozambique): field research in Mozambique
• Laura Kreiling (UK/Germany): field research and literature review
• Eunice Lamolinairie  (University of Oporto, Portugal): translation (Portuguese to French)
• Inês Pinto Cardoso  (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Oporto, Portugal): transcriptions of interviews
• Yuki Wada (UK/Japan): translation of survey (English to Japanese)