(AGENPARL) – Mon 19 May 2025 An unlikely connection: Saturday, May 24th – Room S
11:00
SAFELY Project: Cybersecurity and the necessary awareness –
Chair: Alessio Bartolacelli (in cooperation with the SAFELY project active at
the Department of Law – Unimore – http://www.safely.unimore.it)
• Radically Open Security and Post-Growth Entrepreneurship – Melanie Rieback
(Radically Open Security / Nonprofit Ventures)
• Cybersecurity, Businesses, Institutions: a Holistic Approach – Mirco Marchetti
(Unimore)
• Technology and Learning: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities – Claudia
Severi (Fondazione San Carlo, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Unimore – Safely)
• Skill Gap and Reskillink: the Impact of Artificial Intelligence – Piero Sansò
(Fondazione San Carlo, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Unimore – Safely)
Department
of Law
International conference
End of the roundtable and of the conference
From 11 to 12:30, room S and online, internal workshop for the members of the
Steward Ownership working group – N.B.: restricted access
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZATION
Alessio Bartolacelli, Carolina Cunha, Florian Möslein, Anne Sanders
FOR THE ROUNDTABLE ON CYBERSECURIITY: Michele Balbinot, Valeria Barone,
Marco Mondello, Claudia Severi – PI: Thomas Casadei
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT: Nina Berenbrinker, Tim Bühring, Elena Codoni,
Clara De Chirico, Ben Reinold
Purpose in Business:
Steward Ownership
and Enterprise
REGISTRATION
The attendance of the conference is free of charge.
The conference will be livestreamed at the following website:
https://msteams.link/HS67 or using this QR code
N.B.: for both in-person and remote participants, we kindly ask to register at the
following link: https://forms.office.com/e/hk8jea2PqB by May 18, 2025
In cooperation with and with the support of
Thursday, May 22nd – Saturday May 24th, 2025
Department of Law Unimore and online
Thursday, May 22nd – Aula Magna
14:00
Institutional greetings & general presentation
10:45
Coffee break
14:15
Session 1: Introduction & Minimal syllabus – Chair: Florian Möslein
11:15
Session 5: Governance and stakeholders – Chair: Anne Sanders
• Challenges in internal governance: stewards and (informal) power structures –
Nena van der Horst (University of Amsterdam)
• The position of the members – Virginijus Bitė (Mykolas Romeris University of
Vilnius)
• Steward-Ownership: A Legal Form with the Potential to Develop a Sustainable
Business Model? – Maria Concepción Chamorro Domínguez (Universidad
Rey Juan Carlos Madrid)
• Interaction with external constituencies – Noah Neitzel (Lindenpartners Law
Firm)
• Internal and external controls and impact on the governance: the purpose drift –
Kevin Levillain (Mines Paris PSL)
• Q&A
• Enterprise, purpose, profit: an historical introduction – Andreas Rahmatian
(University of Glasgow)
• What Purpose? Dimensions of long-term entrepreneurial agency – Till Wagner
(Stiftung Verantwortungseigentum)
• Steward ownership from an economic perspective – Steen Thomsen
(Copenhagen Business School)
• Steward ownership from a legal perspective – Anne Sanders (University of
Bielefeld)
• Q&A
16:00
Session 2: Key features of Steward Ownership organizations –
Chair: Carolina Cunha
• Purpose? Give us asset locks, not purpose! – Hans De Wulf (Ghent University)
• Asset lock: the different approaches and the possible issues – Karsten Engsig
Sørensen (Aarhus University)
• Perpetually locked form: theoretical and practical profiles – Francesco A. Schurr
(University of Innsbruck)
• Q&A
17:00
Light lunch
14:30
Session 6: Financial and inter-organizational profiles –
Chair: Florian Möslein
• Who invests in a steward ownership company and how to do it? – Jan
Andersson (University of Stockholm)
• Corporate finance: capital lock and its relevance for the debt financing of the
company – Lorenzo Benedetti (University of Pisa)
• Inter-enterprise co-operations – Hana Horak (University of Zagreb)
• Dissolution: navigating the afterlife – Carolina Cunha (University of Coimbra)
• Insolvency and crisis – Christina Livada (National and Capodistrian University
of Athens)
• Q&A
Session 3: Steward Ownership and the EU Law – Chair: Alessio Bartolacelli
• Steward ownership: the European position – Rene Repasi (Erasmus University
Rotterdam – European Parliament)
• European Treaties and steward ownership – Florian Möslein (Philipps
University of Marburg)
• Secondary European Law and steward ownership: the compatibility with the
acquis communautaire – Christoph Teichmann (Julius Maximilian University
of Würzburg)
• Steward ownership and sustainability-related European legislation: a
benevolent neutrality? – Federico M. Mucciarelli (Unimore)
• Q&A
18:30
13:00
16:15
• Global Movement – The PURPOSE Foundation (Jessica Edioke)
• Italy – Fondazione SAFE (Andrea D’Angelo)
• Germany – Wala – Dr Hauschka (Philip Lettmann)
• Netherlands – Radically Open Security / Nonprofit Ventures (Melanie Rieback)
• Portugal – Critical Software (Gonçalo Quadros)
• Denmark –Rambøll Fonden (Neel Strøbæk)
• The US – Holdfast Collective – Patagonia (Greg Curtis)
• Q&A
End of Day 1
Friday, May 23rd – Aula Magna
Session 4: Purpose-driven entities: the general panorama –
Chair: Carolina Cunha
• Associations and Foundations – Aldo Laudonio (Magna Graecia University of
Catanzaro)
• Cooperative business entities – Jukka Mähönen (University of Helsinki)
• Benefit companies and social enterprises – Alessio Bartolacelli (Unimore)
• Trusts – Oonagh Breen (University College Dublin)
• Q&A
Session 7: Roundtable – Steward Ownership models, meaningful domestic
experiences and demands from economic practice –
Chair: Anne Sanders
17:45