This Stakeholder Brief summarizes the debates among stakeholders, mainly practitioners and academics, during the stakeholder forum that opened the first meeting of Empower-SE Working Group 3 devoted to social enterprise (SE) ecosystems organized in February 2020 at the University of Bucharest (Romania).

This Stakeholder Brief summarizes discussions that took place during the first activity of the fourth Research Workshop of Working Group 2 “Social enterprise in industries” of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE) held at the University of Malta in November 2019.

This first Empower-SE Stakeholders Brief synthetizes the main results of the work carried out in the framework of the meeting of Working Group 1, on the “Theoretical Foundations of Social Enterprise (SE)”, which took place in Lisbon in winter 2018. The reflections shared here are intermediate results, as research is still ongoing; final results will be presented in various final publications.

The second research workshop of the Working Group on fields of activity of social enterprises (WG2 “Industries”) was co-organized by Euricse, the EMES Network and the University of Trento on November 22-24, 2018.

This Stakeholder Brief provides an overview of the main topics discussed in the COST Empower-SE meeting in Budapest, “Towards an international typology of social enterprise models: Progress, perspectives and common trends”.

This Stakeholder Brief is a summary of the debates that emerged in the second Research Workshop of Working Group 2 (“Social enterprise in industries”) of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE), held at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in February- March 2019.