Current research interests

Governance, partnerships and the third sector

Social Enterprises and Social Innovation

Complex Systems Theories

Third sector/social economy organizations in the context of crisis

Relationships between the state and the third sector

Innovation and Social and Solidarity Entrepreneurship

Research Projects

2018-06-01 - 2020-11-30 - "TIMES - Institutional Trajectories and Social Enterprise Models in Portugal", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/União Europeia.

2018 - 2021 - "EmployALL - A crise do emprego e o Estado Social em Portugal: deter a produção de vulnerabilidades sociais e de desigualdades", coordinated by Renato Miguel do Carmo, sponsored by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

2017-10 - 2021-10 - "EMPOWER-SE - Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars ", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by EU - COST Action.

2017-10 - 2019-09 - "Up-date of the mapping of social enterprises and their eco-systems in Europe", coordinated by EURICSE/EMES, sponsored by Comissão Europeia.

2017-05-30 - 2019-11-29 - "Atlantic-Social-Lab - Cooperação Atlântica para a promoção da inovação social", coordinated by Hugo Pinto, sponsored by UE - INTERREG Espaço Atlântico .

2015 - 2016 - "O impacto social e institucional da crise económica e financeira nas Organizações do Terceiro Sector", coordinated by EAPN-Portugal, sponsored by EAPN-Portugal.

2015 - 2016 - "PATHS: Youth for Solidarity Economy and Entrepreneurship in Europe", coordinated by Luis A. Bermejo, sponsored by Erasmus +.
    Project Partnership:
              - Red Internacional B-Live
              - Association des Agences de la Democratie Locale
              - Citizens in Action
              - Youth Discovery Ventures Ltd

2010 - 2011 - "Study on Volunteering", coordinated by Mauro Serapioni, sponsored by Fundação Eugénio de Almeida.

2008 - 2009 - "Microentrepreneurship and associativism in intermediate development countries", coordinated by Luiz Inácio Gaiger, sponsored by CNPq, Brasil.
    Project Partnership:
              - UNISINOS

2005 - 2006 - "Diagnostic and prospective study on the role of NGO in the promotion of equal opportunities between women and man", coordinated by Virginia Ferreira, sponsored by CIDM.

2002 - 2004 - "European Cooperative University - A Space of Cooperation, Research and Training to the Actors of Social and Solidarity Economy", coordinated by College Coopératif Provence-Alpes-Méditerrané, sponsored by Leonardo da Vinci.
    Project Partnership:
              - INSCOOP - Instituto Antonio Sergio do Sector Cooperativo
              - Centro de Estudos Cooperativos, FEUC
              - CECOP - Confédération Européenne des Coopératives de travail associé, des Coopératives sociales et des Entreprises sociales et Participatives
              - CCB - Collège Coopératif en Bretagne
              - ENAIP - ENte ACLI Instruzione Professionale
              - ISSAN - Istituto Studi Sviluppo Aziende Non-profit
              - SAW - Solidarités des Alternatives Wallonnes
              - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

2001 - 2001 - "Reinventing Social Emancipation", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

1997 - 1999 - "Portuguese society and the challenges of globalization", coordinated by Prof. Doutor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by Foundation for Science and Technology (PRAXIS XXI Program).

1996 - 1997 - "The State and civil society: The creation of social actors in a period of state reconstitution", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by JNICT .

Networks

CIRIEC Portugal

EMES Network

International Society for Third Sector Research