• CRISES UQAM – Montreal, Canada: 2019
  Visiting fellow
• SOM, Yale University - USA: 2018
  Visiting fellow
• London School of Economics – Department of Social Policies: 2005
  Visiting fellow
• FUNDP – Department of Economics: 1997
  Invited lecturer

Member of policy committees

Conseil Supérieur de l’Emploi (2000 – 2005), comité experts dynamique Horizon 2022 RW (2012 – 2013), comité experts Get up Wallonia (2021 – 2022)

International collaborations

• EMES International Research Network
  2002 - 2022 : Board Member
  2017 - 2022 : President of the Board
  2022 - 2023 : Vice-president

Research funding

• Chair of the COST action 16206 "Empowering the next generation of SE scholars" (2018 – 2022) involving 35 countries.
• Co-ordination (with J. Defourny [ULg]) of the “International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project” (2013- 2021), which involves over 200 researchers from some 50 countries across the world. The main specific feature of the ICSEM Project is its geographic coverage: it aims to compare social enterprise models and their respective institutionalization processes across the world.
• Principal investigator of “city4coEN : Collaborative cities for collaborative entrepreneurs” (2017-2021) (with T. Dedeurwadere and O. De Schutter), funded by Innoviris Brussels-Anticipate (Prospective Research).
• Principal investigator (with J. Defourny [ULg], M. Jegers [VUB] and M. Hudon [ULB]) of the “Interuniversity Attraction Pole on Social Enterprise” (IAP-SOCENT; 2012-2017).
• Research chair “Economie sociale au Sud” (2014-2018), in partnership with “Louvain Cooperation”.
• Research chair “Economie sociale et lutte contre la pauvreté” (2016-2023), Fondation Louvain, in partnership with the social enterprise “Les Petits Riens”.
• Co-ordination (with G. Herman, D. Desmette and E. Léonard) of an interdisciplinary—economics, psychology and industrial relationships—“Action de Recherche Concertée”: “On the Fringe of the Labour Market: Social Production of Job (In)security in the Post-industrial Society” (2010-2015).
• Co-ordination of two inter-university research programmes on “Society and Future” funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office: (1) Social economy and liberalization of services: the case of proximity services (2006-2009); (2) Social economy and sustainable development (2001-2004).
• Scientific coordination of the project “The socio-economic performance of social enterprises” (2001-2005), with 12 research centres funded by DG Research of the EU Commission.
• Numerous participations as a partner in other European research projects: “Childcare services and social cohesion service”, “Growing Inequality and Social Innovation: Alternative Knowledge and Practice in Overcoming Social Exclusion in Europe” …

Scientific evaluation committees

DG Research (EU Commission), Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, Agence nationale de la recherche française, ESRC Research Council (UK)

Editorship

• Member of the editorial board: “Social Enterprise Journal”, “Voluntary Sector Review”, “Journal of Social Entrepreneurship”.
• Reviewer for: various books for Routledge, “Revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa”, “Revue des études coopératives, mutualistes et associatives”, “Voluntas”, “Public Administration Review”, “Social Enterprise”, “Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics”, “Ecological Economics”, “Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly” …

Teaching

Bachelor: "Transition sociale et écologique" (ECGE 1324)
Master : Travaux relatifs au mémoire de fin d'études et exercices de groupes (OPES 2200)
Economie Sociale (OPES 2243), Economie sociale (ECON 2351)
Past : Théorie du développement (ECON 2342), Évaluation des politiques publiques (OPES), Non-Profit Organizations, Social Economy and Social Policy (ECON 3907 Graduate School Seminar).

Publications : https://uclouvain.be/fr/repertoires/marthe.nyssens