Networks
Networks
Networks of which CECOP is a member
REVES
European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy
Partnership between local authorities and the social economy is the basis of REVES’ identity. This European network brings together local authorities and social economy actors which have decided to work together for the sustainable and high quality development of their regions, for the achievement of social justice, for the democratic participation of citizens, for job creation and to fight against social exclusion.
Officially created in September 1997 as an international non profit association, with the constitutive act of Genoa, the network was born by the intuition of a group of cities, as Östersund (Sweden) and Reggio Calabria (Italy) and CECOP.
Through an activity closely linked to the European Union policies and deeply concerned by local development dynamics, REVES has worked and works as an unrepeatable laboratory, in a position to supply cues, to have an influence on decisions at European level and also to orient local development policies.
EMES
An European Universities and Centres of research network on the Emergence of Social Enterprises in Europe
EMES is a research network of established university research centres and individual researchers whose goal is to gradually build up an European corpus of theoretical and empirical knowledge , pluralistic in disciplines and methodology, around “Third Sector” issues.
EMES exists since 1996, when an international group of scholars formed a research network that had been sponsored by the European Union. Having reached an unusual level of mutual understanding, trust and a common perspective of working together, a community of researchers sprang off from this working experience.
Formally established as a non-profit association (ASBL under Belgian law) in 2002 and named after its first research programme, on "the emergence of social enterprises in Europe”, EMES nevertheless concerns itself with broader matters, defining the “Third Sector” in broad ways.
ENSIE
The European Network for Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE) was officially estab-lished in Bruges (Belgium) on May 11, 2001.
Already for several years, exchanges between European networks for social integration enter-prises have made it possible to identify the common fundamentals of these initiatives within the various nations of the European Union.
ENSIE takes for its objective the representation, maintenance, and development within the European Union of networks and federations for economic social integration in Europe.
Social Platform
The Platform of European Social NGOs is the alliance of representative European federations and networks of non-governmental organisations active in the social sector.
The Social Platform promotes social justice and participatory democracy by voicing the concerns of its member organisations.
