Name of the Project: TheoFrameAccountability: Theoretical Framework for the Promotion of Accountability in the Social Economy Sector: the IPSS case

Project Number: 30074

Project Coordinator: Universidade de Aveiro

Type of Project: Compete 2020 – PO CI | SAICT – Sistema de Apoio à Investigação Cientifica e Tecnológica | IC&DT – Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Project

Project Lifetime: 2018 until 2020

Partners:

Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal)

Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

Confederação Nacional das Instituições de Solidariedade

Aims and Objectives: This project aims at answering the research question: “How to promote (social, financial and economic) accountability within the social economy sector: the case of IPSSs (social security private institutions)?” and its main goals are: to create an online channel for sharing mandatory and optional information that covers social, financial and economic aspects of their activities; to design a framework that allows the stakeholders to make that assessment; and to start a yearbook to assess the impact of IPSSs performance.

Coordination of the project at ISCAP / Researchers involved: