
This page is.... Project Background
	Background CONSCISE is funded by the European Commission's Framework V programme; Under the Key Action - Improving the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base. Start date March 2000. Over the project's three year life, research partners in England, Scotland, Germany, Sweden and Spain will be working together to examine the way in which social enterprises in the social economy contribute to the growth of social capital and facilitate local development in their locality. For a brief overview of the project outline see the Conscise leaflet. Einen kurzen Überblick über das Projekt finden Sie in der Conscise-Kurzbeschreibung (Faltblatt) För en kort översikt av projektets innehåll, se Conscise flygblad Para una información resumida del proyecto vease el folleto Conscise MAIN CONCEPTS The project is divided into 8 inter-related workpackages. The aim of first workpackage is to providing working definitions and measures of the key concepts; Social Enterprise Social Economy Social Capital These definitions and measures will be utilised in augmented local socio-economic profiling and social auditing techniques. These techniques will be used for data collection in 8 locations within the partner countries. The final results will be presented at the CONSCISE conference early in 2003. BIBLIOGRAPHIES During the course of the project bibliographies relating to the main themes will be constructed and expanded upon. To view the current bibliographies click on the tiles below. Social Capital Social Enterprise Social Audit Local Socio-Economic Profiling WHO WILL BE INTERESTED IN THE FINDINGS ? Practitioners,policy makers, politicians and academics should all find issues of relevance in the work of the Conscise project.