You will find in annex the call for contributions for the second edition of the international conference “Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons”, which will take place from the 6th to the 8th of November 2019 at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. The general theme of this year’s edition is “Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy”. Please submit proposals by email to ssecommons.cei@iscte-iul.pt . The submission deadline is May 31st 2019.
The 19th Meeting of the Inter-university Network of the Social and Solidarity Economy (based in France) will focus on the theme “SSE of culture and culture of SSE“. It will take place on the 15th to 17th of May, 2019 at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
You will find the call for papers on this website.
The date of receipt of abstracts is 12 January 2019.
GA2018: more inter-cooperation and convergence!
In a lively Zagreb filled with people enjoying the world cup festive atmosphere, RIPESS EU – Solidarity Economy Europe celebrated its 7th General Assembly meeting with members from all over the continent, from Spain to Russia. The first day – Friday 15th of June – was dedicated to the “Good Economy Conference” sessions, in the beautiful setting of the Kino Tuskana theater, with a small yet rich and colourful local producer fair and many sessions dedicated to sharing experiences from Croatia, the Balkan region and the rest of Europe.
The dinner party in Zmag’s Recycled Estate Farm – 30 km out of Zagreb – was the most welcoming, convivial and social networking evening there could be, where new members got to know the rest of the RIPESS crowd as well as the great Zmag team. Pizza and local craft beer, as well as reggae music, helped create a true multicultural atmosphere.
One of the oldest schools in Zagreb, in the old part of town, was the setting for the actual Genera Assembly for an intense day and a half of strategy discussions (on convergence with other alter-economic movements, public policies and SSE, education, peer training and cultural change), elections for the renewal of the coordination committee and admission of new members. Three new members joined the network: Bio Fair coop from the Czech Republic, Fair Trade Poland and Good Earth cooperative from Macedonia.
The last day was dedicated to foster the inter-cooperation among members, sharing ideas, projects and areas of work where new exchanges and common actions can be discussed and help advance SSE concretely all over Europe as well as at the international level, connecting with the other continental networks of RIPESS.
The independent media are close to SSE, often by their statutes but particularly by the values they defend. But how do they approach it? Here is a selection of articles of independent media from the last two months. You can also find them on the map of socioeco.org: Journalist for solutions (Articles are located on the city where the SSE initiative takes place or, in case of a general article, in the city where the media is located).
De nouveaux indicateurs de richesse peuvent-ils contribuer à la nécessaire transition écologique et sociale ?
and a video with Stir magazine: Stir it up-Alternative economy at work.
Si no ens plantegem per què la societat civil s’organitza democràticament, per què ens ho plantegem en el món econòmic?
The SSEDAS-SUSY project published its final analysis of the research “Transformative economy: challenges and limits of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)” in 55 territories in Europe and in the World.
“Our spring 2017 issue is a Community Toolbox of illustrated how-tos and articles to support more community-led change. With so many communities now interested in buying local assets and using co-operative governance, we decided to invite leading practitioners to introduce a tool and how it works.
What is Community Economic Development?
How to Create a Local Economic Blueprint?
How to Make Decisions Online ?
STIR magazine is a quarterly print magazine of new economic ideas and original art in 2013. We publish international contributors on the co-operative movement, the global commons, solidarity economics and many other emerging political practices. Moving beyond traditional political commentary, we explore the inspiring and viable alternatives that represent a serious challenge to the current political crisis.
STIR magazine explores community ownership, co-operatives, post-growth economics, food sovereignty, alternative finance, law and social change, open data, cultural activism, peer-to-peer production, and the future of work.
The goal of this Forum is to organise a dialogue between all the actors, from North to South, involved in education and training on Social Solidarity sector. It is a cooperative effort by both Universities: Haute-Alsace University (France) and Cadi Ayyad University (Marrakech). During this meeting organised in Marrakech, associations, enterprises, public institutions as well as students and researchers from France and Marocco and more in general from Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa are welcome to exchange and debate about the education and research-action in Social Solidarity Economy, in an international perspective as well.
It’s a great sadness that we learned of the passing away of our colleague Pr. Dr. Eva G Fekete on april 24 2017. She was one of the founding members of RIPESS Europe for Hungary. She was professor at the University of Miskolc, former head of the Northern Hungarian Department of the Centre of Regional Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, an active member of the Committee of Regional Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the board of the Hungarian Regional Scientific Society. She was also a member of the RIPESS advisory council. Last september, she had welcomed the coordination commitee in Budapest. She had also organized an exciting visite in Tahitótfalu, a village in the north of Pest county, on the Szentendre island near to the capital where we met various actors of SSE, determined to defend their civic engagement. She was herself a staunch avocate of SSE in Hungary. Our condolescences go to all her family, friends and colleagues.