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| FundAction: grant making for and by change makers! |
| 160 activists from all over Europe are the members of FundAction, a new participatory fund making grants for social transformation, organized around a community of activists based in Europe to… |
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| New Iberoamerican journal of SSE - RIESISE: call for contributions |
| First call for the presentation of articles for the Iberoamerican Journal of Solidarity Economy and Socio-Ecological Innovation (RIESISE) on the topics of this new scientific publication published by the Publications… |
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| Synergia Institute – Summer Program: Osuna, Spain |
| As an organization committed to progressive social and economic change, Synergia Institute would like to alert you to an important program taking place this summer focusing on game changing ideas, practices, and economic models… |
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| No Agroecology without farmers and Conscious Consumers ! |
| The 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology took place at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in Rome, 3-5 April 2018. 700 participants, representing Member States, FAO agencies, farmers’ unions, civil… |
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| Conference "SSE and the Commons: Envisioning Sustainable and Post-capitalist Futures": Call for Papers |
| The conference will take place in Lisbon, on 21-23 November, 2018. It is organised and will take place at the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) - Center for International Studies… |
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| IPES FOOD and RIPESS signed Letter of Agreement |
By Judith Hitchman, President of Urgenci
IPES FOOD (International Panel of Food Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) has been working for some time to establish a European Common Food Policy;… |
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| Registrations for GSEF 2018 open! |
| It is with great enthusiasm that Bilbao City Council announces that the registration for GSEF2018 is open. The Forum is meant to be a dynamic and participatory gathering, constructed in… |
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| Farewell professor Paul Singer, promoter of Solidarity Economy |
| Paul Singer, Austrian economist and tireless promotor of the Solidarity economy in Brazil, died at age 86. He published several books on the subject and is a… |
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| Independent media talk about SSE |
| 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… |
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| Basta! The Free Media Portal app is available! |
| Fed up with Google news? Find the daily selection of Basta! on your mobile. Bastamag, an independent information site on social and environmental issues, launches this April 11 the application… |
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| World Social Forum 2018: some first lessons |
Article by Gustave Massiah
The Bahia WSF took place in an electric atmosphere. Happy and enthusiastic at first, tragic after the assassination of Marielle Franco. The Forum was driven by the enthusiasm of the Bahian movements whose very well captured energy can be measured in the first video of ShareCsympa. Three major movements carried the Forum: the women's movement; the Afro-Brazilian movement; the movement of traditional peoples.
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| Ctrl-shift: An emergency summit for change in the UK |
By Kat Darling, Solidarity Economy Association - UK
Last week, the culmination of eight months of collaborative effort came to fruition as the Solidarity Economy Association joined co-organisers in Wigan, in the North of England, for CTRLShift: An Emergency Summit For Change. The event brought together 150 people ... |
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| Publication: Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers |
By Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, March 2018
With the erosion of the archetype of a five day week, full time for most, agreed hours job goes the loss… |
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| Publication: The economy that is there, the economy that is coming. The challenge of a positive institutionalization of the social economy |
| Original title: L'économie qui est là, l'économie qui arrive. Le défi d'une institutionnalisation positive de l'économie sociale To exit a niche and shake up the dominant economic norms, the social… |
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| European Solidarity Corps |
| What is the European Solidarity Corps? It is the new European Union initiative which creates opportunities for young people to volunteer or work in projects in their… |
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| The 4 SSE projects of the French government |
| We open this letter on the news of the (French) government which, as we mentioned in the editorial of the month of January, leads four projects in connection with the… |
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| Manifesto for Transformative Social Innovation |
| The Manifesto for Transformative Social Innovation Version 0.1 has been written by people involved in a number of networks, initiatives and research groups that focus on initiating, facilitating and/or understanding… |
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| Northern European Solidarity Economy Meeting |
21-22 April, Helsinki, Finland
Let’s join our SE forces in the North! As the struggles about the commons and against an ecological catastrophe intensify, we are in the need for… |
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