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Editorial: Radical and inclusive
Six years after our Foundation Congress in Barcelona in Catalonia (hopefully the Catalan people can build a peaceful future), the RIPESS EU - Solidarity Economy Europe network continues its path. We have reaffirmed this collaborative space as the European force of solidarity economy. We continue our efforts of enlargement (one of our last Coordination meetings took place in Helsinki, and new members joined from the Czech Republic, Latvia, Greece and Portugal) and consolidation of the network.
Our last Congress in June in Athens (UniverSSE 2017) was a success in this sense: beyond the participation (more than 1000 participants), it allowed us to situate ourselves in an agenda which is at the same time local (with DOCK and the creation of the pan-Hellenic platform) and European, as we have been able to followup with the realisation of the 2nd European Forum on SSE  (EFSSE 2018) in November in Brussels, at the initiative of the European left.
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News from the networks
REAS new web portal of Solidarity Economy
The REAS - Red de Redes de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria has a renewed web portal on Solidarity Economy, in a veta release. You can visit it at the usual…
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"Europe and SSE - the time has come!" (January 12, 2018) in Lille
With nearly 170 participants and high density debates, the conference "Europe and SSE, the time has come!" organised by RTES and REVES was a success and a strong impulse to…
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ATTAC: the economic alternatives
ATTAC, as alterglobalization movement, has been developping for several years a reflection on concrete alternatives. Members of RIPESS EU - Solidarity Economy Europe have participated several times to the works…
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Publication : Social movements and solidarity economy
Mouvements sociaux et économie solidaire, Editions Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, France, november 2017 This collective publication, coordinated by Jean-Louis Laville, Elisabeta Bucolo, Geoffrey Pleyers, José Luis Coraggio, deals with the…
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Enercoop wins the Enterprises and environment Award
This year, Enercoop participated to the Enterprises and Environment Awards, a national contest organized by the Ecological and solidarity-based Transition Ministry and ADEME that honours the exemplary actions and projects…
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RIUESS Manifesto
Created in 2000, The Inter-University Network of Social and Solidarity Economy ( Réseau Inter-Universitaire de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, RIUESS) is composed of around 30 universities and is widely opened…
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The Commons Transition Primer
The P2P Foundation is happy to share its recently completed project, the Commons Transition Primer website, with new and adapted texts by P2P Foundation Members, including Michel Bauwens. With illustrations,…
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Economistas sin Fronteras
Economistas sin Fronteras (EsF) is a non governmental organization of development, founded in 1997 by a group of university teachers and others, actively involved and worried about inequalities and…
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What if the alternative to supermarkets was cooperative supermarkets?
Democratizing the access to agrocological food engages us to go towards more ambitious models, bigger and more complex, that can also be more inclusive. and if big can also be…
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The Regional Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy in Occitania, 17th edition
A big success for the FRESS that gathered on the 17 and 18 of November, more than 800 visitors, 80 solidarity-based entrepreneurs and proposed around 30 workshops and conferences. ADEPES,…
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Fiare Banca Etica and REAS Red de Redes sign a collaboration agreement
FIARE Banca Etica (Ethical Bank) and the REAS RdR (Spanish Network) signed a collaboration agreement during an act integrated to the annual assembly of the solidarity economy network.
As was said by the representatives of…
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Call for Proposals for GSEF 2018
It is with great enthusiasm that the Bilbao City Council announces that the Call for Proposals for GSEF 2018 is now open! This is your chance to contribute to this 4th edition of the…
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Urgenci signed MoU with the FAO
In October Urgenci signed a 3-year Memorandum of Understanding with the FAO. This will allow the international network to map, exchange experiences and build capacity in many parts of the world, supported…
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Greece: New “Fruits of Solidarity” campaign
'Fruits of Solidarity" is an exports campaign project of Greek coop products, supported by Dock – Social Solidarity Economy Zone* aiming at the creation of…
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First European report on Ethical Finance and banking
Ethical finance is very different from speculative finance; it's for this reason that it allows to maintain and to increase the economic value of the savings in time and to…
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The European Pillar of Social rights: RIPESS Europe's contribution
On the occasion of the Social Summit in Goteborg (16-18 Novembre 2017), the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission jointly proclaimed the European Pillar of Social Rights, which…
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2nd Euro Meeting of Alternative media and SSE

The second European meeting of Independent Media and SSE will occur from the 9th to the 11th of February 2018 at La Bergerie de Villarceaux (an eco-farm near Paris), bringing together representatives of around 20 media initiatives from several European countries and people working in SSE organisations and networks.

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Webinar Gender and SSE
Third Women & SSE webinar
In this third session about Gender Perspective and Feminist Economics, with activists and experts in the field, we'll lift the veil on this current reflection to move forward together :  Julie Mattaei from the US SE Network, and a special guest from the Spanish network (person to be confirmed), session animated and analysed by Ada Bazan (Quartiers du Monde, Morocco), and Ethel Coté (Women entrepreneurs network - Women of the world, Canada).
Please subscribe to info@ripess.org or the dedicated Facebook page, and we will explain you shortly how to join the webinar.
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Northern European SSE meeting
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 more joint networks based on solidarity, emancipatory learning and nondiscriminatory participation. Finland’s commons.fi and the solidarity economy network together with RIPESS Europe invite activists, defenders of the commons, grassroots organisations and networks to come and join a Northern solidarity economy network meeting to initiate cooperation in the field of commons, grassroots and solidarity action around bottom-up, grassroots economies, common strategies to advocate for another economy.

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Internship at RIPESS Europe
Internship: research and communication of the solidarity economy in Europe

RIPESS Europe offers an internship of 4 to 6 months on "research and communication of the solidarity economy in Europe". Hosted by one of the network’s founding members (in Italy), the intern should be following a university course, speak fluently the two main languages used by the network (English and French), and possibly Spanish or German would be a plus. The internship will start from the end of April 2018.
Application deadline: February 28, 2017.

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World Social Forum 2018
World Social Forum 2018
The World Social Forum (WSF) returns to Brasil where it was born in 2001 in Porto Alegre. In 2018, from March 13 to 17, it will take place in Salvador de Bahia with seminars, plenaries, workshops, cultural activities and conferences. The Forum will be a moment for horizontal and selfmanaged encounters. It will be possible to participate from a distance through the organization of the extended forum.
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Video: The making of the UNIVERSSE 2017

 

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February 2018 resources
Some reading suggestions for February 2018… in collaboration with Socioeco.org.
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