Raquel Sampaio honoured with the ‘Cooperation and Solidarity António Sérgio 2024’ award, in the ‘Studies and Research’ category

Raquel Sampaio won the 2024 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the ‘Studies and Research’ category, with the study Exploring the links between the legal form and the financial sustainability of hybrid organisations: Challenges in the Portuguese context.

This study investigates how the choice of legal form impacts the financial sustainability of hybrid organisations in Portugal, especially in a context where there is no specific legal form for social enterprises. The work explores the adaptive capacity of these organisations to achieve their social mission and guarantee financial sustainability.

The public award ceremony took place on 24 January 2025 at the Goethe-Institut Portugal in Lisbon. You can watch Raquel Sampaio receive her award here. The full ceremony, here.

The António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Award, created by CASES in 2012, is designed to honour the natural and legal persons who, each year, have most distinguished themselves in the Social Economy sector or in disseminating the personality, civic activity and work of António Sérgio. Eight winning projects were honoured: two in the ‘Innovation and Sustainability’ category; two in the ‘Studies and Research’ category (one of them for Raquel Sampaio); two in the ‘Studies and Research in Lusophony’ category; one in the ‘School Work’ category; and one in the ‘Journalistic Work’ category. Seven honourable mentions were also awarded. In the special category ‘Social Economy Personality of the Year’, Artur Filipe Veiga Martins and Maria Amélia Ferreira were recognised - ex aqueo - with the ‘Career Honour Award’ - and Mariana Dolores - with the ‘Entrepreneurial Capacity Honour Award’.