During the ICA CCR Europe Research Conference 2026, Shreya Paudel presented her research ‘Representing the Cooperative Movement: The International Cooperative Alliance in the Early 20th Century’, co-authored with Tine De Moor. The research explores the historical development of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and examines its role in representing, connecting, and strengthening the cooperative movement at an international level.
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The 2027 IASC Conference, Centering the Commons: Resilience, Resistance, and Collective Action, will take place in Indonesia, bringing together scholars, policymakers, artists, and practitioners to explore the role of the commons in addressing contemporary social, ecological, and economic challenges.
The conference features a range of panel sessions that encourage dialogue and exchange across disciplines and perspectives. As part of the programme, Professor Tine De Moor will contribute to the panel ‘Solidarity and Economy: Rethinking their Relationship through the Commons’, alongside Maggie Poulos (Stanford University) and Charles Schweik (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
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In their article, The hitchhiker’s guide to the organizational galaxy: overcoming challenges of data aggregation over time and space, published in Management & Organizational History, Véronique de Herde and Tine De Moor examine how the relationship between researchers and organizational data has evolved in the digital era.
Despite the abundance of high-quality time-series data, consistency for comparative analysis across time periods and geographical locations remains an issue. The authors propose a study on cooperative historical data as a methodological blueprint to guide the analytical steps involved in comparing and aggregating organizational data across time and space, particularly when drawing from diverse sources and record-keeping environments.
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The research group Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action is pleased to welcome Geert-Jan Bogaerts as a part-time PhD student. Geert-Jan will be studying the relationship between public service organizations and citizen initiatives, with a focus on community building.
He is a journalist and digital strategist with over 15 years of experience, including as EU and NATO correspondent for De Volkskrant and head of Digital at VPRO. He is founder and chair of the PublicSpaces Foundation and a board member of the Global Voices Foundation, working to strengthen the public digital domain and promote responsible digitalization with social impact.
See the profile page of Geert-Jan for more information.
On Wednesday 16 September, Prof. Dr. Tine de Moor, Professor of Social Enterprise and Institutions for Collective Action at Erasmus University Rotterdam, will give a lecture at the Seneca Congress “Samen kan het wel”. Her lecture is titled: “Bottom-up care resilience: the role of citizen collectives in the future of healthcare.”
Continue readingThis month, three postdoctoral researchers and eleven PhD candidates have started at ECCO. They will be working at various universities and universities of applied sciences to investigate how we can strengthen citizen collectives in societal transitions.
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This interview with SEICA team members Professor Tine De Moor and Communications Advisor Tessa Moolenaar explores the role of citizen collectives in building resilient societies and strengthening the connection between academia and society.
The article examines how CollectieveKracht brings together citizen collectives, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration. It highlights the importance of trust, reciprocity and long-term relationships in developing meaningful partnerships across these communities.
Against the backdrop of growing attention to engaged research and the societal impact of universities, the interview offers insights into the conditions that enable collective action to generate lasting societal value.
In their chapter, Cooperative Data in a Comparative Perspective: Avoiding Pitfalls for Robust Data Aggregation, written for Global Cooperative Economics and Movements, Véronique de Herde and Tine De Moor examine the methodological challenges of comparing and aggregating cooperative data across time and space. As an increasing number of research projects rely on comparative datasets to assess, for example, the societal impact of cooperatives, the authors analyse a broad corpus of historical cooperative data sources, ranging from registration records to federation data at the national and international levels.
Continue readingTogether with neighborhood businesses, municipalities, housing corporations, and health insurers, members of the SEICA research group are co-creating an innovative financing mechanism that integrates multiple funding streams. This aims to ensure sustainable funding for CBEs and guaranteed cost savings for the involved parties. This project is an initiative by DAZO and it is one of 25 projects awarded the Knowledge-in-Action (KIN) grant.
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On 9 July, A Dutch essay collection was launched with the title ‘Vuurproef voor democratie’. The volume brings together 18 essays by researchers, exploring the climate crisis as a challenge for democracy, the rule of law, and public governance. SEICA research group team members Tine De Moor and Lukas Held co-authored one of the essays.