During the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Lukas Held, scientific project coordinator of CollectivePower.eu, gave a presentation, titled: ‘Engaged research on citizen collectives in the Netherlands through an Extreme Citizen Science platform’ (by Lukas Held and Tine De Moor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Montserrat Prats López, Open University).
Continue readingHow do trust, solidarity, and collective action take shape within the theme of financial security? On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Broodfonds De Halve Maan, Professor Tine De Moor gave a lecture, titled: ‘From broodfonds to security of livelihood: the role of citizen collectives in a society under pressure.’ The setting was a first: a typical Rotterdam café, with the audience on bar stools.
From 3-7 November is the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise. This years’ theme is Scaling Through Communities: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises in Boosting Societal Transitions. As co-organizers, our research group is looking forward to welcoming you in Rotterdam and Utrecht. If you haven’t registered yet, don’t wait too long. Registration is open until October 6.
Research group Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action welcomes Janna Vink as knowledge broker. She will identify relevant information for the movement of citizen collectives and to develop data structures that support organizations in data collection and management. This is made possible by an additional grant from the NWO Impact Explorer for the UNICA project.
Continue readingTeam members and affiliated researchers of the SEICA research group visited the World Economic History Congress 2025 (Lund, Sweden). The theme for the congress was “Equality and Sustainability Challenges.” This theme underscores some of the pressing issues humanity faces today and draws connections to a diverse array of historical problems. To both understand and address these challenges and to derive insights from the historical record, a range of perspectives is essential.
Professor Florian Grisel, professor Tine De Moor, professor José-Miguel Lana Berasain, and Dr. Marianne Groep-Foncke presented their work as part of the session ‘Common Concerns. Environmental Literacy Among Commoners in Early Modern Europe’ on July 30, 2025.
During the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, professor Tine De Moor moderated the paper session Institutions, Legitimacy and Change on Sunday 27 July. During this sessions, she presented the paper ‘Contagious Institutions? A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Spill-Over of European Guilds‘, co-authored with Fijnanda van Klingeren. Their paper delves into the spread of guilds across Europe over 600 years, offering fresh insights into the spatial and temporal factors influencing their proliferation.
For this paper, De Moor and Van Klingeren have been honoured with the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper. The award announcement was during the Management History Business Meeting, which took place on Monday, July 28.
Continue readingDuring the 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Copenhagen, Denmark, team members of the research group Social Enterprises & institutions for Collective action presented the work of Tine De Moor, Shreya Paudel, Arthur Feinberg and Fijnanda van Klingeren.
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Enrique Santamaría Echeverría, Assistant Professor of Innovation of Public Law at Erasmus School of Law, has received a prestigious Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Over the next three years, he will explore the legal framework for the collective governance of health data in his project “Collective Governance of Health Data: Towards More Democratic and Inclusive Models.”
Continue readingA broad consortium of scientific and societal organizations, including the national government, umbrella organizations, universities, municipalities, and funding bodies, will collaborate over the coming years on the research project Empowering Citizen COllectives in societal transitions (ECCO). For this project, €6.8 million has been awarded by the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA).
From 16 to 20 June, representatives of Social Enterprises & Institutions for Collective Action were present on the 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). On 16 June, our research group organized the session ‘Common concerns. Environmental literacy among commoners in early modern Europe’, chaired by Marianne Groep-Foncke.
