Defining and measuring the impact of the third sector in Europe: State of the art and challenges

Participants: - Danijel Baturina (Institute for Social Policy, University of Zagreb) - Joachim Benedikt and Christina Rentzsch (University of Munster, Germany) - Ulla Pape (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands) -... [ view full abstract ]

Participants:
- Danijel Baturina (Institute for Social Policy, University of Zagreb)
- Joachim Benedikt and Christina Rentzsch (University of Munster, Germany)
- Ulla Pape (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- Bartosz Pieliński (The Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University, Poland)
Description: The session will start with a short introduction to the research and discuss preliminary evidence from the Third Sector Impact project, particularly with respect to the following questions:
- Which barriers and obstacles stand in the way of third sector organisations and make them less effective and efficient in the countries under study for what exactly?
- Which facilitating factors enable these organisations to thoroughly develop their potential?
- What measures can be taken to reduce or eliminate the factors that hinder the organisations from making a significant contribution to solving the problems of contemporary society