Mondragon: Conference Announcement -- Community Economics

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ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF COMMUNITY ECONOMICS  
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

July 7 & 8, 2006

MAIN TOPIC:

Development of Social Enterprises                                

Special Guest: Inazio Irizar  -
                          Mondragon University, Spain
 

 Topics will include but are not limited to the following:

1.  Challenges of Mapping the Social Economy

2.  Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise

3.   Forms of Business Organization and the Social Economy 

4.  Opportunities for more effective use of E-Commerce in Social Enterprises

5.  Finance and Investment as Social Enterprise

6.    Role of government in the social economy

7.    Forms of Research for Social Enterprise

8.   Social Enterprise in Rural Tourism .


 
WATCH FOR ONGOING ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THIS SITE:   WWW.CED.CA       

Conference fee: $ 300  (limited number of  bursaries available)

Send all communications to gregmacleod@ns.sympatico.ca

A two week course on the Theory and Practice of the Mondragon Co-operative 
Corporation will be taught at Cape Breton University during the first two weeks 
of July 2006.  The course may be taken as a credit course or as an audit course.


The teaching team will include Dr. Inazio Irizar from Mondragon University as 
well as Dr. Greg MacLeod, author of  From Mondragon to America.
 
For information on this course, contact:  gregmacleod@ns.sympatico.ca

 
 






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