This Stakeholder Brief provides an overview of the main topics discussed in the COST Empower-SE meeting in
Budapest, “Towards an international typology of social enterprise models: Progress, perspectives and common
trends”. The goal of this meeting was to bring together Hungarian SE researchers, other stakeholders of the
Hungarian SE field and researchers of the COST Empower-SE network. Innovative conference networking
formats provided a space for discussion about social enterprise research in Hungary and in other parts of
Europe. The comparison between the social enterprise fields of various European countries reaffirmed that
the historical developments and institutional contexts greatly influence the SE fields across Europe.