Social Enterprises and Institutions for Collective Action

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. … Continue reading Webinar – Accelerating actions in living and caring for the elderly

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, … Continue reading Open Seminar Talk: Max Harleman (GCSU)

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. 

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 … Continue reading Research seminar -‘Together: The Dimensions of Collectivity in Collaborative Housing’

In cooperation with KNHM and Triodos bank. More info follows.

During the event, a panel discusses the role of energy communities in the energy transition. The panel consists of: The event also includes the presentation of two European Union projects:

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 … Continue reading Workshop: Public Goods in History

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.

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.

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 … Continue reading SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Enrique Santamaría

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 … Continue reading Application deadline – Part-time PhD programme

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 … Continue reading PhD defence – Gigs of their Own: Can platform cooperatives become resilient?