Portugal

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CIRIEC-Portugal (CEEPS – Centro de Estudos de Economia Pública e Social) is a nonprofit making organization set up on October 23, 1979 that carries out scientific and technical research. For more than 20 years, it has become the CIRIEC International’s Portuguese Section.

This association aims to promote the research, training and dissemination of knowledges in the fields of Public, Social and Cooperative Economy.

About a dozen members, both individuals and collective are involved in the activities undertaken by CIRIEC-Portugal, most of which are university professors, researchers, leaders in Public and Social Economy as well of Cooperative entities.

Recent activities of CIRIEC-Portugal:

  • Participation in preparatory works on the new Satellite Account of the Portuguese Social Economy (2015 and 2016);
  • Coordination of OBESP (Portuguese Observatory on Social Economy) research works, created in 2011, in partnership with CASES;
  • Organization of the International Conference on « Défis de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire »;
  • Organization of the 5th Research International Conference in Social Economy in collaboration with the CIRIEC International;
  • Annual organization of the Iberian Symposium on Social Economy co-hosted with CIRIEC-Spain (alternately in Portugal and in Spain).

Officers

(updated: 07 11 2022)

President:
Manuel BELO MOREIRA
Agronomist;
Retired Full Professor, Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Universidade de Lisboa

Vice-President:
José Alberto PITACAS
Economist;
Research Collaborator, Centro de Estudos Organizaciones e Sociais, Instituto Politécnico do Porto;
Former Director, Gabinete de Formacão e Estudos Mutualistas, Montepio Geral – Associação Mutualista (Mutual Insurance Association)

Directors:
Deolinda APARÍCIO MEIRA
Coordinating Professor of Commercial Law at Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração, Instituto Politécnico do Porto;
Director of the Master in Management and Legal-Corporate Regime of Social Economy, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração, Instituto Politécnico do Porto

José ALMEIDA RIBEIRO
Retired University Professor

José Jerónimo TEIXEIRA
Economist;
Member of the National Council of the Social Economy
Former President of the Board of Directors, Confederação Cooperativa Portuguesa, CONFECOOP

Section details

Address
CIRIEC-Portugal
Avenida Júlio Dinis, 14 - 5°A
PT-1050-131 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone (+351-21) 797 03 94
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