The 7th EMES Selected Conference Papers (ESCP) series is now published following the last conference in Sheffield in June 2019. The texts were selected based on the evaluation of the session chairs and this initial batch is composed of 18 articles ready to download and share widely, including the Best Papers to which we will devote a specific blog entry shortly.

The other 18 papers cover a vast area of research topics including bottom-up dialogue at the local level, participatory local governance, social innovation and policy, social and solidarity economy, empowerment, the commons; scaling up and replication; crowdfunding, resource optimization, impact investment and how to invest in wind energy; critical work on the notion of SE itself; as well as reflections on what factors affect the choice of structures when setting up social enterprises. Cases described as well as countries of origins of the authors include Bolivia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, United Kingdom, etc.