The journal Noticias de la economía pública, social y cooperativa, in short, Noticias del CIDEC, is a four-monthly publication specialising in the field of the social economy, cooperativism, associations, the third sector and other non-profit and social projection entities.
This journal is produced by the European Information and Documentation Centre for the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIDEC), a centre that materialises an institutional collaboration of more than thirty years between the scientific association CIRIEC-Spain and the University of Valencia through its University Institute for Research in Social Economy, Cooperativism and Entrepreneurship (IUDESCOOP). It is also sponsored by the Generalitat Valenciana, through its Direcció General de Treball, Cooperativisme i Seguretat Laboral.
The editorial policy of this publication is defined by the journal's editorial board, made up of people from the academic world, public administrations and the field of the social and co-operative economy.
The journal has the following sections:
- Social Economy News. This section offers a selection of news at three levels: local, national and international, on the social, public or co-operative economy, including information on congresses, courses and events, agreements, new regulations and various activities carried out by universities.
- Current issues. This second section, which marks the identity of each issue, is devoted to a relevant and topical issue in the field of cooperativism and the social economy, approached from a legal, organisational, economic or sociological perspective. It includes long articles, interviews, various contributions and dossiers on the current topic, which can range from new forms of housing co-operatives to new policies for the promotion of the social economy.
- The Social Economy in Action. This section consists of several sections:
- Interviews with prominent people, whether from the field of the social economy, public administrations or the academic world,
- The Social Economy in the law, with a selection of the new regulations on the social economy produced in recent years.
- Cases of federations and social economy organisations and enterprises.
- Social Economy in history, and
- Bibliographical novelties in public, social and cooperative economy.
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