The Social Work, Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation axis is promising, from the point of view of the potential relationship between terms, and relatively untapped. In 2015, with the creation of the UC Entrepreneurship and Social Integration, which is an option for the PhD program in Social Work, a work of reflection began in this area, which has been substantiated in several initiatives that are now being organized under a trunk. common, giving it a more systematic character. These initiatives include: - The International Seminar “Social Work of / in the Company: Tradition and Innovation of a Changing Field” (held on November 23, 2017 at ISCTE-IUL); - The orientation of two doctoral theses: “Innovation in Social Work: potentialities and limits of (social) entrepreneurship as a strategy of social integration” (Antonela Jesus, completed in 2019); “Social Work and Entrepreneurship: practices, perceptions and contributions” (Cristina Nascimento, started in 2017); - The project "Cross-national social work and social innovation platform: social work curriculum improvement by co-creation" (funded by € 6000 by EASSW); - The Impact Partnership project (currently being applied).   It is also our intention to materialize the contributions of the International Seminar “Social Work of / in the Company: Tradition and Innovation of a Changing Field” in book format, compiling the speeches of several participating professionals, but also of other social workers with activity. professional in entrepreneurial and social innovation entities, social and corporate responsibility, with whom meanwhile contacts have been established. The Cross-National Social Work and Social Innovation Platform: Social Work Curriculum Improvement by Co-Creation project, which has now been funded by the European Association of Schools of Social Work, has developed from contacts established at international Social Work conferences. , an application has been prepared with a group of partner ...

T@sk aims at reinforcing and modernizing the delivery of Social Services in Albania by empowering the Albanian Higher Education System. The aims of T@sk projects are essential for the development  of the Albanian Social Work system, for its modernization and its alignment to the European standards of the Social Services delivery. T@sk project can count on the long lasting  expertise of the University of Florence, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Instituto Universitário of Lisbon and the Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali of the Tuscany Region in the field of Social Work organization and evaluation. The cooperation among the European Union partners and the Albanian Universities will create the ideal ground to reach increased competences of Albanian Higher Education staff, a growing self-empowerment of Albanian social workers and therefore the improvement of the Social Services. Members of T@sk project agree in a subsidiary and multilevel approach based on: In depth theoretical and methodological updating of the University staff of all the Albanian public Universities offering Bachelor  Master Degrees in Social Work: University of Tiran, University of Elbasan, University of Shkodër. Wide inclusion of the Albanian Social Workers and Albanian local institutions in the identification of the needs of the Albanian Social Services. Theoretical and empirical focus on the specific areas of deprived children and disadvantaged women within the general framework of deviance prevention and mitigation of detention conditions.

Since 2010, the International Federation of Social Work, together with the International Association of Schools of Social work and the International Council on Social Welfare, launched a Global Agenda for Social Work, which set up a number of goals and principles to which Social Work should aspire in order to achieve the central aims of social justice and development. The first cycle of this process (2012-2016) elected four main areas of attention: 1) Promoting social and economic equalities; 2) Promoting the dignity and worth of peoples; 3) Working toward environmental sustainability; and 4) Strengthening recognition of the importance of human relationships. In July, 2014 a first report was released on the progress of such agenda, namely the contribution for the reduction of social and economic inequalities, and have reached some conclusions based on examples of effective social work practices around the world. The world has been changing dramatically over the past few years with major consequences for the “European lifestyle”: the euro crisis, the austerity policies, the mass migrant and refugee movements, to name a few, emerges as new challenges for the global agenda and test the limits of social workers agency and power. But to what extent Portuguese Social Workers are aware of these challenges? How do they feel about the Global Agenda? Are they familiar with it? Do they emphasize any of the four main areas? To which of these do they feel more engaged in their daily practices? How have they been promoting these principles in the field? What kind of constraints, obstacles and limitations do they encounter when trying to put in practice such standards? Do they think there is any correspondence between those general principles and their daily professional practice? The purpose of this paper is to approach an answer to these questions by presenting the results of an exploratory research work with professionals, supervisors of social work practice placements, engaged...