Higher Education Institutions
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
University of Essex (UK)
University of Bologna (IT)
Autonomous University of Barcelona (ES)
Social Economy Organisations
Cooperatives Europe (BE)
A.I.C.CO.N (IT)
FEBEA (BE)
Research and Training Institutions
Stimmuli for Social Change (GR)
AN.KA SA (GR)
Scientific Advisory Council
The SE4Ces project is supported by a team of renowned experts in the field of social economy and community development. The members are mandated with overseeing the methodological development and implementation of the project's activities and ensuring a high quality of the key project outputs. The SAC members also play a key role in designing and implementing the exploitation and sustainability strategy of SE4Ces and attracting additional partners to join the SE4Ces team in piloting (parts of) the educational programme, thus building the way towards sustainability.
Esra Erdem is Professor in Social Economics and Social Management bringing high expertise in the research fields of Solidarity Economies and Commons, Political Economy and Critical Urban Studies. As an Academic Director of the Master's Programme "Social Work as a Human Rights Profession" at Alice Salomon University Berlin (associated partner), she contributes to SE4Ces in terms of raising awareness throughout Germany on the project results and particularly expanding the project’s SE Community of Practice.
Saioa Arando Lasagabaster joined Mondragon University in 2007 after working for several years as an accountant and then comptroller for a large manufacturing cooperative in the Mondragon cooperative group. She has taught courses at the undergraduate and masters level on cooperatives, the social economy, and finance for several years, has participated extensively on committees tasked with designing new degree programs, and is Chairperson of the Department of Human Cooperation in Business at the Faculty of Business, MU and was the Faculty’s Scientific Director and coordinator of its research masters degree and doctoral program for eight years. Her research centres on the business and economic effects of cooperative and employee ownership of enterprise. She received her doctorate in economics from the University of Deusto.
Giorgos Kallis is Professor, an ecological economist and leading scholar with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious international journals and three books in major academic publishers. He is coordinator of the “Master in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice” in UAB which has already created real-work bridges between students and SE organisations. He is bringing expertise to the project in terms of designing the SE Living Labs and the SE4Ces education programme on social economy and community development.
Κatherine Gibson is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University and an economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years’ experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. Κatherine is also a founding member of the Community Economies Institute, involving more than 200 scholar SE activists from around the world. In the project, she acts as an invaluable source of knowledge and experience in various non-EU contexts and as a project ambassador in Europe and beyond.
Maria Daskalaki is a Professor of Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research interests include alternative forms of organizing, solidarity and care networks, transnational feminist activism, space/place studies, and post-work futures. She is a member of the Steering Group of the Work Futures Research Centre, and has recently completed a British Academy of Management research project on Social and Solidarity Economy: Alternative Forms of Organizing and Social Transformation. Her work has been published in a range of peer-reviewed journals including Human Relations, Organization Studies, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Management Inquiry, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Maria Kaika is a Professor at the University of Amsterdam with a leading theoretical and empirical work on the political-ecological and political-economic urban processes and the commoning of the urban built and natural environment. As a SAC member, she is involved in the development of the SE4Ces educational programme as well as the overall sustainability strategy, with a great focus on the SE4CEs Community of Practice.
Peter North is Professor of Alternative Economies in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool. Peter is bringing expertise on community development especially through processes of policy formation and partnership working between the public, private and community sectors around strategies for local economic development, as well as on the social and solidarity economies as tools for constructing and rethinking alternative geographies of money, entrepreneurship, and livelihoods.
Theodosia Anthopoulou is a Professor of Social and Rural Geography at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She has also been Director of the Master's in Social and Solidarity Economy at the Hellenic Open University. Theodosia is bringing to the project expertise in various areas and more importantly in the integration of the SE4Ces education programme in relevant universities, thus contributing to the sustainability of the Joint Master’s Program that SE4Ces aspires to create.
Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center. He is also the Founder of the P2P Lab. In 2019, Vasilis was awarded a four-year grant from the European Research Council to advance our understanding of how to create a sustainable economy through the commons.