On 8 December, the official kick-off of the ECCO research project took place at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The gathering brought together more than 30 academic and societal consortium representatives. The day concluded with a festive launch event in the Erasmus Pavilion.
Automation of certain parts of data collection and data processing in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities would enable researchers to skip some of the more painstaking tasks, leaving more time for the actual analysis and opening up the possibility to work with larger data sets. So, how can small Large Language Models (sLLMs) help? Marianne Groep-Foncke and Tine De Moor (RSM, Erasmus University Rotterdam) published a paper on this topic, titled: ‘Easily accessible (small) LLMs in historical studies: opportunities, limitations, pitfalls‘.
Continue readingOn November 13, Steunpunt Energietransitie Nijmegen organized the event ‘The Rediscovery of Community.’ As part of the program, Professor Tine De Moor gave a lecture in which she outlined what a “commons” society, one with a major role for communities, could look like. Do citizen collectives embody degrowth or postgrowth as a serious alternative to consumer capitalism and the neoliberal dynamics of our time?
Systemic change cannot be achieved through technology alone. You also need a different institutional logic.
During the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Tine De Moor gave a presentation, titled: ‘Scaling community-based enterprises: the multipurpose proposition’ (by Arthur Feinberg, Tine De Moor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University).
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During the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Shreya Paudel gave a presentation, titled: ‘Beyond the Blueprint: Rethinking Heterogeneity in the Commons’ (by Shreya Paudel and Tine De Moor).
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During the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, Marianne Groep-Foncke gave a presentation, titled: ‘Studying commons with low-treshold LLMs: an exploration’ (Marianne Groep-Foncke and Tine De Moor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University).
Continue readingDuring the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise, knowledge exchange platform CollectieveKracht (CollectivePower.eu) launched a new lab, strengthening the field for citizen collectives even further.
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During the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise professor Tine De Moor gave a presentation titled ‘Visualizing the long-standing past of the current citizen collective movement by building a taxonomy’ (by Tine De Moor and Marianne Groep-Foncke, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University).
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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.
