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Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesSeminar for Cooperative Research

Simon Micken, born in 1991, studied social sciences (B.Sc.) and sociology and empirical social research (Sociology and Social Research, M.Sc.) at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne.

He works in the troject AdvancementS in Social Economy through Technological Solutions (ASSETS) (GA ID: 101177874), which is funded by the Horizon Europe research framework program. The international research project aims to help overcome the many challenges facing people, society and the economy by researching the role and significance of the social economy (SE) and the political and legal challenges it faces. Furthermore, evaluation tools are to be created and improved in order to assess the social impact of SE organizations. This will be implemented through case studies in exemplary SE organizations. The research focus for the Seminar for Cooperatives is on Weißwasser and the district of Görlitz, in close cooperation with the Social Network Lausitz.

Since February 2018, Simon Micken has been doing his doctorate at the Seminar for Cooperative Studies on corporate cultures of cooperative banks in the context of merger processes. The doctoral project, which is funded by the Verein zur Förderung der genossenschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung an der Universität zu Köln e.V. (FgF), focuses on the possibilities and limits of empirical-quantitative analyses of corporate cultures.

In addition, Simon Micken has been a lecturer in the Sustainable Social Policy (B.A.) programme at the chair of Prof. Dr Remi Maier-Rigaud at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (HBRS) since the 2017/18 winter semester.

As the successor to Dr Ingrid Schmale, Simon Micken is also the contact person for FgF matters at the chair of Prof Dr Frank Schulz-Nieswandt.