9th EMES International Training School

EMES International Research Network, EURICSE and the University of Trento (Unitn) jointly organise the 9^th EMES Training School aimed at researchers at early career levels, PhDs or completing Masters programs who are attracted to conduct research in the wide fields of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, social economy and solidarity economy (the SE field). Moreover, this edition counts on the support of the European Social Innovation Campus (ESIC) project under the Erasmus Plus Blueprint program. With this training school, EMES, EURICSE, Unitn and ESIC aim to:

• Strengthen the training of PhD students by means of methodological and theoretical lectures, debates, and professional workshops;
• Emphasise the research design and methodology involved in any research project, specifically in a doctoral and early-career path;
• Provide personalised feedback and support via well-supported small group discussion sessions on participants’ research projects, their research questions, approaches and theoretical understandings; more precisely, in addition to various opportunities for informal discussion, at least a full hour will be devoted to every student’s research project within group sessions (for presentation by the student, feed-back by professors and their peers, discussion and synthesis of recommendations);
• Provide space for social and intellectual discussion so that doctoral students and ECR will have ample opportunity to establish and expand their own peer networks and benefit from contacts and feedback from established scholars;
• Encourage the engagement of a broad and diverse range of participants, including key actors (e.g., academics, policymakers, practitioners) at the local, national and EU levels. Exchanges with researchers from different countries, continents, cultures and academic disciplines will support stimulating reflections on research approaches, while discussions with practitioners in the field will expose participants to a first-hand experience that expands their capacity to address real-life problems in a context of increased complexity.

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Venue and Accommodation

All the academic activities of the 9^th International Training School will take place at the University of Trento (Facoltà di Economia, https://www.economia.unitn.it/; and Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, https://www.giurisprudenza.unitn.it/) in via Inama, 5, 38122 Trento.

The accommodation is provided ONLY for PhD participants who will be staying at the “Ostello di Trento” (Via Torre Vanga, 11, 38122 Trento).