Portugal

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 5^th 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).