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The TecnoCampus hosted in its congress center, from April 19 to 21, the XIX Congress of Researchers in Social Economy, which has brought together nearly 200 experts from 12 countries. Promoted by CYRIEC-Spain, Reference Center for Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy, la Roca i Galès Foundation I la Chair of Social Economy at TecnoCampus, this congress constitutes the main meeting forum between social economy researchers, 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. That is why CIRIEC-Spain, together with the Social Economy Chair of the TecnoCampus, decided to repeat the congress in Mataró again, so that the pandemic situation was remitted.

The XIX Congress had on April 20, in the opening session, a remote intervention by the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, in the framework of the approval of the new Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), the articles of which recognize the Social Economy as a form of entrepreneurship that must be promoted from universities, and as a collaborating sector for research activity and knowledge transfer. The mayor of Mataró, David Bote, also took part in the inauguration; the Commissioner of Pompeu Fabra University for affiliated centers, Carles Ramió; , the director of CIRIEC-Spain, José Luis Monzón; the president of the association Economia Social de Catalunya (AESCAT), Guillem Llorens; the deputy director general of social economy and social responsibility of the companies of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social, Visitación Álvarez; the deputy director general of Social Economy, Third Sector and Cooperatives of the Generalitat of Catalonia, M. Roser Hernández; and the president of the Scientific Commission of the XIX Congress of CIRIEC and director of the Chair of Social Economy at TecnoCampus, Eloi Serrano.

At the closing, Josep Lluis Checa, general director of TecnoCampus, took part; Carmen Marcuello, vice president of CIRIEC-España; and Carles Campuzano, Councilor for Social Rights of the Generalitat.

Other outstanding participants of the congress were 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 was structured in 9 general workshops and 13 parallel thematic workshops, where more than a hundred communications were presented. As in previous editions, during the Congress two prizes were 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 had the collaboration of the Enuies Network, the Spanish Interuniversity Network of Institutes and Centers for Research in Social Economy, in addition to the sponsorship of the Mataró City Council, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministry of Labor and Economy Social, Caixa d'Enginyers, Tusgsal, Facto Cooperativa and BonCor social and sustainable catering.

Chronicle of the event published in La Vanguardia

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