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The 19th Annual Johns Hopkins International Philanthropy Fellows Conference.   Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain July 7-9, 2008

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Universitat de Barcelona Escola Universitària d’Estudis Empresarials (School of Business Studies) Avinguda Diagonal, 696 08034 Barcelona-SPAIN Telephone: 34 (93) 433-5490   FAX: 34 (93) 403-4650 email: grupcies@grupcies.com   website: http://www2.ub.edu/empres/

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Civil Society Studies The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies seeks to improve understanding and the effective functioning of not-for-profit, philanthropic, or “civil society” organizations in the United States and throughout the world in order to enhance the contribution these organizations can make to democracy and the quality of human life. The Center is part of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies and carries out its work through a combination of research, training, and information-sharing both domestically and internationally. The Center is one of the foremost academic research centers in the world concentrating on the nonprofit sector and civil society issues. Building on the pioneering empirical studies of the American nonprofit sector conducted by its director in the early 1980s, the Center has extended its analysis to the international sphere, producing the first comprehensive comparative assessment of the size, structure, financing, and role of the nonprofit sector at the global level. To achieve its objectives the Center holds a program named “The International Fellows in Philanthropy Program” and convenes a Fellows' conference every other year in a host country overseas to encourage continuing interchange among Fellows and to assist in broadening understanding of this sector at the international level. The result is a unique international network of nonprofit professionals who share a common set of experiences and a common base of knowledge about the operations of the nonprofit sector in different parts of the world. The principal focus of each conference is to introduce our Fellows and guests to key facets of the nonprofit sector in the host country, emphasizing a particular theme or issue that has special meaning locally but also implications for the nonprofit sector internationally. In addition to informing participants about the nonprofit sector in a host country, the conferences have also served the useful purpose of energizing local organizations and linking them to counterparts in other countries.

Centro de Investigación de Economía y Sociedad (CIES)

CIES was founded in Barcelona in April 1992 as result of the accumulated experience since the early 1980s by a group of experts in the field of economics and society. Constituted under the legal form of foundation, CIES has as vision and mission being a center of multidisciplinary research and training center of reference while contributing to the implementation of the sustainable development strategy at the organizational and regional level. Its objective is to study the combination between economic efficacy and social interests, such as the relation between social economy, public administration and the conventional private sector.   Since its foundation, and through its research, teaching and dissemination work, CIES has offered training programs for experts and representatives of public administrations, university professors and students coming from different disciplines, technicians and managers of movements and grassroots organizations, as well as professionals coming from the market sector.   In consequence, CIES has become a reliable resource center which has managed to join the most active agents in the study and promotion of the social economy. CIES achieves its objective through collecting, analyzing and spreading sector information, stimulating and helping innovative projects, and making platforms and nets.   Its teaching experience includes two Masters: Master in Social Economy and Management of Non-profit Institutions (on-line) and Master in Social Corporative Responsibility / Accounting and Social Audit (on-line). CIES is an associated partner of the United Nations’ Global Compact/Pacto Mundial, and of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Europe.

Universitat de Barcelona

With its close historical ties to Barcelona and to Catalonia, the University of Barcelona recently celebrated 555 years of its own history and the academic service to the community that has made it Catalonia’s most important public university. In all Catalonia, the UB is the university that caters to the greatest number of students and offers the broadest and most comprehensive series of higher education qualifications in its first- and second-cycle degrees and the widest range of UB-endorsed programs and studies in postgraduate degrees , master’s programs and doctorates. The University is also the principle academic institution promoting university research at a national level in Spain and has become one of the finest research institutions in Europe, in terms of both the number and quality of its research programs.  By virtue of its importance as an academic institution, the University of Barcelona has also made a decisive contribution to the democratization of knowledge for many generations of citizens in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. Our campuses play host to a large number of students from around the world who have chosen to complete their studies at the UB at a time in history when learning has become one of the most trans-national of all activities. And finally, we are proud to be able to say that the UB’s numerous alumni constitute a broad crossection of Catalan society today. In today’s knowledge society, the mission undertaken by centres of higher education such as ours must be to educate people for professional practice in the community, to prepare and train the human capital that advanced democratic society so needs. This, I can say with absolute conviction, is what we who form the academic community strive for most at the University of Barcelona, a university combining historical tradition with its place in the twenty-first century.

Secretariat

Alice Lariu: ALariu@iese.edu

CIES Coordination

Lena Strandberg: lstrandberg@grupcies.com

               

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