The role and position of the Third Sector during crises and conflicts

Maria Carolina Martinez Andion, UDESC - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Assessing the Third Sector’s contribution to Innovativeness in Structurally Weak Regions in Germany - Georg Mildenberger, Centre for Social Investment; Filip Zielinski, CSI Universität Heidelberg

Non-governmental organisations, innovation, and change in international development cooperation: the cases of Brazil and the Netherlands - Ana Luísa Silva, CEsA, ISEG, University of Lisbon; Kees Biekart, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) / Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR); Luis Mah, Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

How to respond to the social, environmental and economic crisis through research: the role of participatory action research? - Sonia Tello-Rozas, Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM