 Austria |
 Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Nonprofit Organisations (NPO Institut) | | http://www.npo.or.at/ueberuns/englishversion.htm | | Description: | Interdisciplinary research centre within the university; at the same time a membership organization. | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | “Research on demand” – customized research projects: studies, evaluations, surveys, strategic advising | | Training: | workshops and seminars for German speaking audience, topics include: evaluation, reporting, quality management, foundation law | | Other Services: | conferences and open discussion sessions for the non-profit sector | |
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| Belgium |
| University of Liege |
| The Centre for Social Economy (Centre d'Economie Sociale, or CES) | | http://www.ces.ulg.ac.be/english/index.htm | | Description: | academic research centre within the Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences of the university, focusing on various aspects of social economy | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | a range of research topics, topics include: statistics on associations and the non-market sector, social entrepreneurship and volunteer work | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | publications dealing with associations in the non-profit sector, information sheets as well as journals summarizing the research carried out in the centre; within the partnership with the Cera Foundation: organizing courses for university students on “Entrepreneurship and Management in the Social Economy”, organizing thematic conferences focusing on the various aspects of social economy | |
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| Denmark |
| Roskilde University |
| Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - Master in Social Entrepreneurship | | http://www.ruc.dk/paes_en/cse/ | | Description: | research centre functioning as a forum within the Psychology and Educational Studies Department, offering postgraduate education, leading to a master degree for practitioners with a considerable amount of professional and organisational experience within social innovation and social entrepreneurship | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | research related to social innovation and social entrepreneurship, main areas are: cross-disciplinary research, change in the welfare state, social innovation and partnerships, the agents and their interplay and significance, education and competencies, international outlook | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | assessments, documentations and reports related to social entrepreneurship | |
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| France |
| ESSEC Business School Paris-Singapore |
| Chair of Social Entreprise - Social Enterprise MBA | | http://www.essec-entrep-social.com/fr/formations/formation_init/formation_initiale.html | | Description: | academic chair focusing on social entrepreneurship, providing postgraduate MBA programme, for French speaking practitioners | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | academic as well as applied research focusing on areas such as: enterprise in the field of social economy, management and responsibility of social enterprise | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | publications such as practical toolkits; case studies | |
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| Chair of Social Entreprise - Certificate of Fundraising | | http://www.essec-entrep-social.com/fr/formations/formation_continue/cff.html | | Description: | academic chair focusing on social entrepreneurship, providing part-time postgraduate education, leading to a certificate; for French speaking practitioners | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | academic as well as applied research focusing on areas such as: enterprise in the field of social economy, management and responsibility of social enterprise | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | publications such as practical toolkits; case studies | |
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| Philanthropy Chair | | | Description: | academic chair within the Business School focusing on philanthropy | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | academic as well as applied research focusing on areas such as: enterprise in the field of social economy, management and responsibility of social enterprise | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | publications such as practical toolkits; case studies | |
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| INSEAD Business School (Europe) |
| Executive Education - INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme (ISEP) | | http://executive.education.insead.edu/social-entrepreneurship/ | | Description: | business school providing an extensive one-week executive education programme, in the field of social entrepreneurship | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | No | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | No | |
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| L’École de l’Entrepreneuriat en Économie Sociale |
| École de l'Entrepreneuriat en Économie Sociale - La formation des dirigeants des entreprises de l'Économie Sociale | | http://www.ecole-ees.coop/document.php?pagendx=93&project=eees | | Description: | academic institution offering executive education in the field of social entrepreneurship, for French speaking practitioners | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | No | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | No | |
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| Germany |
| Bucerius Law School |
| Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations | | http://www.law-school.de/institut_stiftungsrecht.html?&L=1 | | Description: | institute for foundation law within a private law university - elective courses from the general programme of the law school. | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | law of foundations, associations and charitable corporations | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | journal series every year since May 2002, the Non-Profit-Law Yearbook, "Hamburger Tage zum Stiftungs- und Non-Profit-Recht", targeting lawyers, tax specialists and Non-Profit practitioners | |
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| European Business School (EBS) International University Schloss Reichartshausen |
| Executive Education - Executive Education in Intensive Study Programme Foundation Management | | www.ebs.de/index.php?id=3104 | | Description: | private business school offering executive education in foundation management, an intensive programme leading to a certificate as foundation manager, for German speaking audience | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | No | | Training: | executive training for founders and foundation staff | | Other Services: | No | |
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| Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| Abbe-Institute für Stiftungswesen | | http://www.abbe-institut.de/ | | Description: | research institute as well as competence centre within the university | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | research, focusing on foundational law and various legal issues connected to the foundational sector | | Training: | professional development programme leading to a certificate, targeting German speaking bankers and lawyers | | Other Services: | consultancy; various lectures and seminars focusing on foundational law; round table activities for sharing know-how and experiences; “Thüringer Stiftungstag” – Thuringian Foundation Day; various publications such as the “Zeitschrift zum Stiftungswesen” - a periodical focusing on various legal issues connected to the foundational sector | |
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| Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg |
| Centre for Social Investment - Master in Nonprofit Management & Governance | | http://www.csi.uni-heidelberg.de/master_e.htm | | Description: | centre within the university, offering postgraduate master programme and starting 2010 PhD programme, with a special focus on non-profit issues | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | various research projects ranging from governance, civic engagement and impact in philanthropy | | Training: | executive education | | Other Services: | consultancy in strategy and programme development, social impact measurement and evaluation, leadership and organizational development, customized services, organizing, reporting, reviewing, convening | |
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| University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück |
| Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences - Master in Management of Non-profit Organisations | | http://www.wiso.fh-osnabrueck.de/master-npo.html | | Description: | postgraduate education, offered by the Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences, leading to a master degree | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | No | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | No | |
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| University of Hamburg |
| Chair of Business Administration, Management of Public, Private & Nonprofit Organizations | | http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/institute/oebwl/startseite/ | | Description: | academic chair within the university, focusing on the management of public, private and nonprofit organizations | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | academic research projects focusing on partnership and social value, philanthropy and giving; sectoral non-profit management | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | publications for German speaking audience, elective courses for university students related to non-profit management | |
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| Westfaelische Wilhelms University Münster |
| Centre for Non-Profit Management - Master in Non-profit Management and Governance | | http://www.npm-online.de/nonprofit-management/ | | Description: | private research and consultancy institute within the university, offering postgraduate education, leading to a master degree, for German speaking practitioners | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | research on organizational management | | Training: | seminars such as leadership, corporate social responsibility, foundation management for German speaking audience | | Other Services: | consultancy in general non-profit management | |
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| Ireland |
| Trinity College Dublin |
| Centre for Nonprofit Management | | http://www.cnm.tcd.ie/ | | Description: | centre within the School of Business, offering undergraduate and postgraduate education; within the undergraduate courses, topics include: non-profit management and civil society; within the MBA at the School of Business: postgraduate modules such as Social Enterprise and Business in Society (various scholarships are available) | | Courses: | No | | Research Services: | various research projects ranging from reports on charities, mapping the non-profit sector as well as enabling innovation in the sector | | Training: | executive education, summer school for practitioners | | Other Services: | Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship - programme with the purpose of creating an intellectual ‘home’ for research, education and dialogue on social entrepreneurship in Ireland | |
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| University College Cork |
| College of Business and Law - Masters in Cooperative and Social Enterprise (by distance learning) | | http://www.ucc.ie/en/CKL10/ | | Description: | postgraduate education leading to a master degree, offered by the College of Business and Law of the university: a distance learning course delivered entirely over the internet for practitioners, having already experience in a voluntary or professional capacity in a co-operative or social enterprise | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | No | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | No | |
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| Italy |
| Universita' Bocconi |
| SDA Bocconi School of Management - Master in Management delle Imprese Sociali, Non Profit e Cooperative | | http://www.sdabocconi.it/it/mba_and_master/npandcoop/ | | Description: | postgraduate master programme as well as executive education course for professionals of the non-profit sector, targeting an Italian audience, offered by the School of Management | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | customized research on strategic and professional development of private and non-profit sector institutions | | Training: | “training tailor-made” for the management of non-profits, individual or group training, customized master programmes, | | Other Services: | contributor and link to case study collections on a variety of topics | |
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| University of Bologna |
| University of Bologna - Master in International Studies in Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship | | http://www.misp.it/english/index.php | | Description: | postgraduate education leading to a master degree, funded by the Center on Philanthropy of the Indiana University, the School of Arts and Humanities of the Oxford Brookes University, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and with the School of Development Studies of the University KwaZulu-Natal | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | various research projects - topics include: religions and philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, arts and literature in philanthropy | | Training: | No | | Other Services: | the programme provides an internship opportunity taking place in Italian and international foundations, enterprises and NGOs | |
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| University of Trento |
| Institute for Studies and the Development of Nonprofit Organisations (ISSAN) - Master in Management of Social Enterprises | | http://www.issan.info/eng/index.shtml | | Description: | members-based associative, research and training centre, providing postgraduate education, leading to a master degree, within the Department of the Economics, for Italian speaking practitioners | | Courses: | Yes | | Research Services: | various research projects such as public administration and non-profit management, work-related issues in non-profit organisations | | Training: | trainings, workshop, seminars and executive education | | Other Services: | Social Enterprise Magazine, publications and working papers | |
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