Projects

New Projects at the CSI:

• Indikatorik Soziale Innovation (IndiSI)

• Social Enterprise Mapping Europe

The CSI's main research topics are:

• Social investment and measuring the social impact of investments on welfare
• Foundation system, foundation strategies, strategies with a great leverage effect
• Civil society and social economy
• Nonprofit leadership and social entrepreneurship
• Governance in the Third Sector.

We undertake national, international and comparative research projects with special emphasis on the European level.

With its research program the CSI contributes to:

• the basic theoretical understanding,
• practice-oriented knowledge in the welfare-oriented sector,
• political and strategic debates.

In this way, we seek to bring the issue of social investments into scientific debates and disciplines from an interdisciplinary perspective. The main disciplines - we focus on - are social and educational science, economy, law as well as ethics and theology.

In order to support the academic teaching on nonprofit management, we are working to generate a collection of case studies on the above-mentioned topics.