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The TecnoCampus will host the 19th Congress of Social Economy Researchers from April 21 to 200, which will bring together nearly 12 experts from XNUMX countries. Promoted by CIRIEC-Spain, Reference Research and Information Center on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy, the Roca i Galès Foundation and the Social Economy Chair of the TecnoCampus, this congress is the main forum for economic researchers to meet social, representatives of the sector and of the public administrations competent in the matter.

The TecnoCampus already hosted the XVIII CIRIEC Congress in September 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. This congress, although it was able to take place, was affected by covid-19, with a smaller participation and program than usual. This is why CIRIEC-Spain, together with the Chair of Social Economy at the TecnoCampus, decided to repeat the congress in Mataró, so that the pandemic situation was remitted. The time has come and at TecnoCampus everything is ready to celebrate the event.

The XIX Congress will have the opening speaker on April 20 with the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, following the invitation made by CIRIEC and TecnoCampus. Joan Subirats Humet (Barcelona, ​​1951) holds a doctorate in Economic Sciences from the University of Barcelona and professor emeritus of Political Science and Administration at the same university, where he founded the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP). The minister will give the conference in the context of the approval of the new Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), the article of which recognizes the Social Economy as a form of entrepreneurship that must be promoted from universities, and as a collaborating sector for research activity and the transfer of knowledge.

Minutes before the conference of Minister Subirats, the opening session of the Congress will take place, with the interventions of the chancellor of Pompeu Fabra University, Laia de Nadal; the mayor of Mataró, David Bote; the president of the association Economia Social de Catalunya (AESCAT), Guillem Llorens; the president of the Spanish Business Confederation of the Social Economy (CEPES), Juan Antonio Pedreño; the general director of Social Economy of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Josep Vidal; the president of the Scientific Commission of the XIX Congress of CIRIEC, Eloi Serrano (TecnoCampus), and the director of CIRIEC-Spain, José Luis Monzón. Other prominent participants of the congress will be Jordi García Jané, cooperativist of the Roca i Galès Foundation and the Solidarity Economy Network (XES); Antonio Iruela, director of ACEBA; Ignacio Ugalde, president of CEPES Navarra, and Carles Manera, professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, adviser to the Bank of Spain and member of Economistes Front a la Crisi. The latter will be in charge of giving the closing conference of the Congress on Friday, April 21.

In addition, the Congress will be structured in 9 general workshops and 13 parallel thematic workshops, where more than a hundred communications will be presented. As in previous editions, during the Congress two prizes will be awarded to the two best communications presented by young researchers, doctors and non-doctors, under the age of 35; and the two best doctoral theses defended in the last five years.

The congress has the collaboration of Red Enuies, the Spanish Interuniversity Network of Institutes and Centers for Research in Social Economy, in addition to the sponsorship of Mataró City Council, the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy , Caixa d'Enginyers, Tusgsal, Facto Cooperativa and BonCor social and sustainable catering.