'Collectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?!'
2023-06-16 11:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris) | Parktheater Eindhoven, Elzentlaan 50, Eindhoven, 5615 CN
Collectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?! ​

CollectieveKracht and Europe Direct Eindhoven are organising an event on Friday 16 June with the theme ‘Collectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?!’. In the Parktheater in Eindhoven, we will share inspiring stories and examples, stimulate dialogues and share new insights from practice and science from The Netherlands and other European countries. Do we need more experiments and pilots or is it time to scale up? Have a seat and join the discussion during the 16th!

Registration for the event is free and can be done here.

More information about the event will follow soon!

Debate on commons, with Tine De Moor
2023-06-27 20:00 - 21:00
On Tuesday 27 June, debating podium Debatpodium Arminius organizes a debate on ‘commons’, featuring Energie van Rotterdam, Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie and de Knarrenhof. Prof. Tine De Moor (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) is one of the speakers, along with political philosopher Yara Al Salman (Utrecht University), Femke Stam (Knarrenhof), Jelte Boeijenga (Energie van Rotterdam), Annet Van Otterloo (Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie), Sebastiaan Bonte (Leefbaar Rotterdam) and Tim de Haan (D66).

Zijn ‘commons’ de oplossing voor falen van overheid en markt?

Housing Cooperatives Day
2023-09-16 10:30 - 16:30 | Basecamp, 16A Nijverheidsweg, Utrecht, 3534AM, Netherlands
Cooplink organizes an event (in Dutch) around housing cooperatives. How do you organize, finance, design and manage the property? Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management, gives the opening speech.

The event takes place on September 16, from 10:30h-16:30h in Utrecht. If you’re interested in coming to the Landelijke Wooncoöperatiedag, sign up and claim your free ticket.

Charging the Commons #1 - (Be)Commoning
2023-10-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Pakhuis De Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, 1019HC, Netherlands
This is the first episode of the series Charging the Commons and it will center around the process of becoming a commons. What does establishing such a community entail? What steps does a group of people need to go through in order to become a commons? This early setup stage can profoundly shape the development process of such communities, for instance: its (economic) viability, the management of the shared resources, everyday practices, members’ relationship with each other or the community affiliation with the broader environment. Exploring the process of becoming a commons (becommoning) can reveal useful insights around challenges and external factors.

Lukas Held from CollectieveKracht participates in this conversation with Zsuzsanna Tomor (researcher at AUAS), Darinka Czischke (professor at TU Delft) and Joachim Meerkerk (PhD at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).

SEWF Fringe Day
2023-10-10 00:00 - 23:59
From 9 to 13 October SEWF Week ’23 takes place, organized by the Social Enterprise World Forum. On the 10th is Fringe Day: a collections of related (and mostly free) events independent of SEWF.

Book launch + Q&A - Together: Towards Collaborative Living
2023-10-24 20:00 - 22:30
During the book launch of ‘Together: Towards collaborative living’, the authors will explain why collaborative living is experiencing a revival in the Netherlands and what best housing practices enable this living form. Join us for an evening about why collaborative living is experiencing a revival and what best housing practices enable this form of living.

Authors: Darinka Czischke – Associate Professor, Housing and Social Sustainability | TU DelftMarije Peute – Qualitative researcher & LecturerSara Brysch – Architect, PhD researcher and Co-founder of etscha studio

Webinar - Accelerating actions in living and caring for the elderly
2023-10-27 10:30 - 12:00
We would like to invite you for an online session hosted by De Haagse Hogeschool and CollectieveKracht. During this webinar we exchange ideas about the collaboration between health institutions, housing cooperatives, local governments and organizations for the elderly in creating spaces where living and caring for the elderly are combined.

This event is in Dutch. More information will follow later on the CollectieveKracht website. Would you like to join this webinar? Send an e-mail to collectievekracht@rsm.nl and you will receive an invite for the Teams meeting.

Open Seminar Talk: Max Harleman (GCSU)
2023-10-31 14:00 - 15:00
Max Harleman, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Georgia College & State University, will start off the new season of the SEICA Open Seminars. He will present his upcoming paper: Can Collective Action Institutions Outperform the State? Evidence from Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage.

This seminar is online. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to collective-action@rsm.nl and you will receive a Teams-invite shortly.

SEICA Open Seminar Talk: David Soto-Oñate
2023-11-28 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for the next Open Seminar Talk where SEICA visiting fellow Dr. David Soto-Oñate will present a work in progress project called “A polycentric approach for a post-growth social order”. Below you can find the abstract. Please send an email to collective-action@rsm.nl if you would like to attend this seminar online.

Research seminar -'Together: The Dimensions of Collectivity in Collaborative Housing'
2023-12-19 15:00 - 17:00
Professor Darinka Czischke and PhD researcher Sara Lia Brysch organize a discussion that will feature insights of two recent publications: ‘Together: Towards Collaborative Living’ (Czischke, Peute & Brysch) and ‘Towards a new Existenzminimum: defining principles for the design of affordable collaborative housing’ (Brysch).

The seminar brings together a group of renown European scholars in the field of collective self-organized housing to reflect on the role of collectivity to improve the affordability and sustainability of a housing project. The event will take place in the faculty of Architecture of TU Delft. Find the programme here and register before December 15.

Collectieve-Kracht meeting : financing citizen collectives
2024-01-25 15:00 - 19:00
In cooperation with KNHM and Triodos bank. More info follows.

Learning webinar: Citizen involvement through the Citizen Energy Cooperatives
2024-01-26 09:30 - 12:30
During the event, a panel discusses the role of energy communities in the energy transition. The panel consists of:

Thomas Bauwens, Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, specializes in energy communities;

Louis de Fontenelle, Assistant Professor at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, specializes in public policies, energy, and sustainable transition policies;

Antonia Proka, an Energy Transition Expert and Project Manager at RESCOOP, the European Federation of Citizen Energy Cooperatives.

The event also includes the presentation of two European Union projects:

REC4EU (Renewable Energy Communities for EU Regions), dedicated to the development and promotion of renewable energy communities within European regions

LEEWAY (LEading coopEration toWArds energy communities policies tackling energy povertY), focused on energy communities and their policies, with a specific emphasis on addressing energy poverty.

Workshop: Public Goods in History
2024-02-09 09:00 - 17:00
The Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History organizes the workshop ‘Non-rivalrous, non-excludable: an interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of public goods in history’. It explores the evolution of public goods and how their provision is shaped by institutions and norms over time.

Economists have defined public goods as resources whose consumption by one individual does not diminish their availability to others, while also being accessible to all, regardless of their contribution to provision. However, the traditional lens often falls short in explaining how societies cooperate to provide public goods, a topic of increasing relevance in the face of contemporary challenges in public health and environmental sustainability. These issues highlight the urgency of understanding the provision of non-market public goods.

Speakers: Avner Offer, Tine De Moor, Sheila Pugh, David Gawkrdoger, Cesare Vagge, Joost Haddinga, Louis Henderson, and Victoria Gierok.

Details: This event is on February 9th, 2024 from 9am-5pm (GMT). It takes place in the Memorial Room of Jesus College Oxford.

Oxford seminar series - Tine De Moor - 'Spreading from below'
2024-02-20 18:00 - 20:00
As part of the Economic and Social History Seminar, professor Tine De Moor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam will present a paper titled ‘Spreading from below. on the diffusion and scaling of institutions for collective action in early modern Europe.’ More information.

Institute of Historical Research Seminar - Tine De Moor 'Spreading from below'
2024-02-23 18:00 - 20:00
Professor Tine De Moor from (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will give a presentation titled ‘Spreading from below. on the diffusion and scaling of institutions for collective action in early modern Europe.’ Read more about the event here.

SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Enrique Santamaría
2024-02-27 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for the next Open Seminar Talk with Dr. Enrique Santamaría Echeverría. He is a researcher at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University and is an affiliate researcher of SEICA. His research focuses on the relations between the human body and the law. During this session Dr. Enrique Santamaría will give a presentation with the provisional title: “Governance of health data and biological materials for research and development: the case of data cooperatives”.

This seminar is online. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to collective-action@rsm.nl and you will receive a Teams-invite shortly.

Application deadline - Part-time PhD programme
2024-03-15 00:00 - 23:59
Are you a business professional who wants to develop their academic skills? With our new part-time PhD programme, you can take part in academic study and research while maintaining your job.

Especially if you are a professional working for or with social enterprises, cooperatives, citizen collectives, or alternative governance regimes such as commons, we encourage you to apply for this six year programme. Afterwards you will receive a PhD degree from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Apply before March 15! Find more information here: https://www.rsm.nl/faculty-research/part-time-phd-programme

PhD defence - Gigs of their Own: Can platform cooperatives become resilient?
2024-03-15 10:30 - 12:00
You are warmly invited to the PhD defence of Damion Bunders on 15 March 2024 at 10:30 in the Senaatszaal of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The dissertation is about platform cooperatives as an alternative form of organisation where gig workers own and manage a digital platform collectively. It includes an analysis of the challenges these cooperatives face to better understand the conditions under which they could become resilient organisations.

Please fill in the following form if you are attending the PhD defence (and reception afterwards at 12.00).

Register

You can also join the live stream.

Brief summary of the doctoral thesisThe gig economy, where mostly self-employed workers perform short-term service jobs intermediated by digital platforms, is often portrayed as offering a glimpse at the future of work. Platform cooperatives that are owned and controlled by gig workers themselves have emerged as an alternative form of organisation to the currently dominant investor-owned platforms. The appeal of platform cooperatives as an alternative is to provide more secure working conditions and democratic control over the platform. In his PhD project, Damion Bunders investigates the challenges that gig workers face when organising themselves in a cooperative enterprise. In particular, he provides insight into the initial feasibility and more long-term challenges of platform cooperatives as one institutional approach to organise work differently in the gig economy by analysing the conditions under which cooperatives of gig workers can become resilient. The project addresses questions on enterprise formation, member commitment, democratic governance, and coordination of collective resources. Damion takes a multi-disciplinary and multi-method approach, combining theory from sociology and institutional economics with interview, survey, and text analysis research. Just as economists have long wondered why firms are usually controlled by capital suppliers instead of by labour suppliers, this dissertation addresses the puzzle of why platforms are not more commonly owned and governed by workers.

AddressSenaatszaal, Erasmus BuildingBurg. Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam

SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Arjan van Dorsselaer
2024-03-26 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for a seminar with Arjan van Dorsselaer, a PhD Candidate from Utrecht University. He studies the drivers of social entrepreneurial ecosystems and how these influence the various scaling strategies employed by social enterprises. He will present a paper titled: “From Theory to Scaling Strategy: The Role of Community Capital in Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems“.

This seminar is online. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to collective-action@rsm.nl and you will receive a Teams-invite shortly.

Seminar Tine De Moor for the Amsterdam Business School
2024-03-28 11:30 - 13:00
On March 28, Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management (EUR) gives a seminar at the Amsterdam Business School (UvA), titled: ‘Contagious Institutions? A longitudinal study of institutional spill-over effects of European guilds and other forms of institutions for collective action.‘

Read the abstract here

Lecture Tine De Moor for series ‘Between Eden and the Fall' - Leibniz University Hannover
2024-04-23 18:00 - 20:00
Professor Tine De Moor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) will give a lecture titled: ‘The commons as a form of institution for collective action, in longitudinal perspective‘. This seminar is part of Leibniz University Hannover’s summer semester lecture series ‘Between Eden and the Fall: Common Land in Early Modern and Modern Western Europe’.

SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Axel Frejman
2024-04-30 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for a SEICA seminar with dr. Axel Frejman, a researcher in Classical Archaeology at Uppsala University. His research has to a large degree revolved around Greek sanctuaries in both modern-day Greece and Turkey. Special research interests include commons and shared resources. During this seminar, he will give a presentation titled: “Commons in Ancient Greece“.

This seminar is online. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to collective-action@rsm.nl and you will receive a Teams-invite shortly.

Rotterdamlezing by professor Tine De Moor
2024-05-13 19:00 - 21:30
Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management will give this year’s Rotterdam Lecture. This is the annual gift to the city, on behalf of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Trust Fund. The lecture is titled: ‘How value becomes resilient. Building the community economy in Rotterdam‘ and will be held in Dutch. Find more information here

Application deadline - PhD in Sustainability and Management
2024-05-15 00:00 - 23:59
Do you want to do research on how organisations can be key drivers of social change and sustainable development? Are you, for example, interested in institutions for collective action and alternative organisational and governance forms? Then apply for a fully funded PhD position in Sustainability and Management with our department Business-Society Management (B-SM), Erasmus University.The application deadline is 15 May

Session about the community economy (in Dutch) by Th. Bauwens
2024-05-16 19:00 - 20:30
Session ‘Oplossingen voor de toekomst: voorbij groei in een economie van gemeenschap’ by dr. Thomas Bauwens and Felix van Hoften

Session about the community economy (in Dutch), by Th. Bauwens
2024-05-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Campus Woudestein, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Session ‘Oplossingen voor de toekomst: voorbij groei in een economie van gemeenschap‘ by dr. Thomas Bauwens and Felix Hoften

Charging the Commons Workshop: Relational interface for more-than-human commons
2024-06-13 19:30 - 21:00
Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp, together with the research and design initiatives Charging the Commons and Dark Matter Lab, is organising a workshop to explore how design can contribute to the technological and organisational conditions of a more-than-human consciousness. What kind of ‘relational interfaces’ can help us to imagine relationships with each other, different life forms and the planet that are based on stewardship and the common good, rather than domination and ownership?

Martijn de Waal (head of the Civic Interaction Design) research group at the AUAS) explains relational technology and relational interfaces on behalf of Charging the Commons.

Designer-researcher Yin Aiwen introduces the relational board game Liquid Dependencies.

Fang-Jui Chang and Calvin Po present some examples of relational interfaces that Dark Matter Labs is using to promote an alternative civic economy.

Meetup about Tegenlicht episode: 'Naomi Klein and the Pull to the Right'
2024-06-20 18:00 - 2024-06-21 20:30
After the results of the European elections of June 6, we will meetup in the Rotterdam Library for inspiration for the political future. The episode of VPRO Tegenlicht about the book ‘Doppelganger’ by Naomi Klein is the central point of discussion during this event. According to author Klein, we must look for the answer in movements that take collective action.

Tine De Moor, professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Florian Cramer, teacher at the Willem de Kooning Academy, will speak during this meetup. They will discuss with the audience what we can do in Rotterdam to strengthen the collective from the bottom up.

This meetup will be in Dutch. There will be a screening of the episode from 18:00-19:00. The programme will start at 19:00. Find more information on this event here.

ICA CCR Europe Research Conference 2024
2024-06-24 08:00 - 2024-06-26 17:00
The overall theme of the 2024 conference in Dundee, Scotland is: ‘Co-operatives, Hybrids, and Democratic Organisations as the Future of Sustainable and Equitable Socio-Economic Development: Operationizing Co-operatives and Democratic Organizations to address contemporary challenges and problems’.

Charging the Commons Final Event | What design can contribute to commoning
2024-07-04 15:00 - 17:00
Join the final event of the Charging the Commons project, where we share and discuss the insights and learnings acquired during this two-year research on how design can contribute to the commons and commoning practices.

The program will be kick-started with a keynote by Prof. Marcus Foth (QUT Digital Media Research Centre) on intermediation in design as a practice of communing, followed by presentations by the Charging the Commons researchers on what it takes to initiate an urban commons, designing collective decision-making processes, and harnessing digital technology for fostering commons values. To close off, a panel discussion will be held to reflect on the research process, the findings, and the role of professionals in the be-commoning process.
