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Highlights from 2026
Collaboration for innovative financing of community based enterprises. Together 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.
Chapter on avoiding pitfalls for robust data aggregation
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.
SEICA Seminar with prof. Ismael Vaccaro
On June 23, Prof. Ismael Vaccaro (CSIC) presented his research about the history of Catalan Commons. The presentation was titled “The Legal Transformations of the Commons in the Catalan Pyrenees: from the Middle Ages until the twenty-first century”. Vaccaro presented his research on the complex legal history of the old commons, showing how their legal status has been profoundly transformed over time, while certain characteristics have persisted under new legal frameworks.
Lecture on Citizen Collectives and Societal Resilience
As part of program for the ‘Week of Resilience’ at the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region (VRR) Professor Tine De Moor gave a lecture on the role of citizen collectives in enhancing regional resilience, titled: “Society as First Responder: Citizen Collectives as Critical Infrastructure for a Resilient Netherlands?”. They examined how initiatives such as energy cooperatives, care collectives, community enterprises, and neighborhood networks contribute to addressing crises and broader societal challenges.
Inspiring Research Day by IOS Platform Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change
IOS Platform Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change organised a research day at Utrecht University, facilitating the interdisciplinary sharing of expertise on their main research topics and to help to create (new) networks and collaborations. Professor Tine De Moor gave a lecture, titled ‘From grassroots to governance: the maturation of citizen collectives in the Netherlands’. In the lecture, she explored how these initiatives have grown into a diverse and influential movement shaping energy, housing, care and food systems through democratic governance, local stewardship and long‑term community orientation.
Highlights from 2025
Citizen Collectives Monitor maps the development, resilience, and challenges of Dutch initiatives
Dive into the data from the first Citizen Collectives Monitor by CollectieveKracht (Dutch publication). Based on information from 431 initiatives, the monitor shows how citizen collectives are increasingly developing into important actors in the public domain.
Research on historical insights on institutional spread awarded during AOM Annual Meeting
For the paper ‘Contagious Institutions? A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Spill-Over of European Guilds‘ Tine De Moor and Fijnanda van Klingeren have been honoured with the Journal of Management History Award for the Best International Paper. The award announcement was during the Management History Business Meeting, which took place on Monday, July 28.
€6.8 million for research on the collective power of citizens in societal transitions
A 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).
Tine De Moor gave lecture on managing commons in western Europe
On 10 April, Professor Tine De Moor (RSM, Erasmus University) gave a lecture at the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, College of Economics and Management in Xianyang, China. The lecture was titled “Why History Matters for Today’s Community-Based Solutions: managing commons in Western Europe from past till present.”
Presentation on Large Language Models in historical studies
Can researchers in the field of humanities speed up and scale up their research by making use of AI-driven aides? Dr. Marianne Groep-Foncke of Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam) presented her research during the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2025. Her presentation was titled ‘Easily accessible LLMs in historical studies: opportunities, limitations, pitfalls‘.