RIPESS Europe

European Ecovillage Gathering 2025
2025-08-12 08:00 - 2025-08-17 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Manas Garden, Lengyeltóti, Rágniczapuszta 4., 8693, Hungary
Mark your calendars! The European Ecovillage Gathering is set to return in 2025, bringing together visionaries, change-makers, and community builders from across the continent and beyond.
From August 12th to 17th, 2025, we’ll gather at the beautiful Manas Garden in Hungary, hosted by the Mindenegyüttmegy Egyesület community.
In 2025, we embark on a journey to celebrate 30 years of the Global Ecovillage Network – GEN and 20 years of Gaia Education. This momentous occasion will unfold in Eastern Europe, where we will nurture our roots and plant the new seeds of a more regenerative future for all.

Social Economy European Summit
2025-09-16 08:00 - 2025-09-18 17:00 | Víctor Villegas Auditorium and Conference Centre, Av. Primero de Mayo, s/n, 30006, Murcia, Spain
Murcia to host Social Economy European Summit
The most important European event of the social economy ecosystem of the year, Social Economy Week, takes place in Murcia, Spain – the official 2025 Spanish capital of the social economy.
Social Economy Europe is co-organising our 2025 Social Economy European Summit in Murcia, featuring a full programme of events.

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European Day of Sustainable Communities
2025-09-22 08:00 - 2025-09-27 17:00 | online
For the 9th year, ECOLISE and its partners are highlighting how community-led initiatives are shaping the transition to sustainable, resilient, and inclusive societies.

What to expect?
National policy dialogues in France, Spain, Croatia, Finland, and Portugal
Inspiring stories from the ground:
• Henbant permaculture farm (Wales)
• Ökoregion Kaindorf (Austria)
• Sunseed Desert Technology Spain)
• Aardehuis (Netherlands)
• Coopérnico (Portugal)

And in November, the journey continues in Brussels with an EU-level event!

How you can engage:
• Follow and share our campaign posts to spread the word about these inspiring initiatives.
• Join the national policy dialogues.
• Use the hashtag #EDSC25 to spread the movement.

Beyond Growth Conference
2025-09-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Congress of Deputies, Plaza de las Cortes, núm. 1 - 28014, Madrid, Spain
The Beyond Growth Conference will be a space for democratic deliberation for a new economic model based on caring for people and the planet. The desired outcome is to lay the foundations for a new social compact that will help us overcome our economy’s dependence on economic growth and unequal global relations. This requires addressing the current ecosocial crisis in its various dimensions and making a dignified life possible for all people within the planetary boundaries.
The Conference will take place on September 26, 2025, in Madrid, at the Congress of Deputies.
Numerous initiatives and organizations in Spain have been defending and implementing life organization models for decades, supporting the common good beyond growth . At the same time, there are a growing number of voices from academia, civil society, and activists calling for systemic change toward collective well-being, the democratization of the economy, the distribution of wealth and power, and respect for the limits of the planet and the rights of future generations as a means of resolving the current ecosocial crisis. The Beyond Growth Conference aims to be a platform and a collective space for building for all of them.
Registration is now open : https://beyondgrowth.es/inscripciones/
You can find the program at https://beyondgrowth.es/programa/

SSE Youth Hub intercontinental webinar
2025-09-30 13:00 - 17:00 | online
Connecting SSE Youth Advocacy from Every Continent !
️ Interpretation FR ⇄ EN ⇄ ES
Zoom link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84922584800?pwd=[REDACTED]
This webinar will be a key milestone to discover and share the advocacy papers carried by youth from the five continents (Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia, Europe) in the framework of the Global Social and Solidarity Economy Forum – Bordeaux GSEF 2025.
You will find:
✔ Insights into the activities planned during the Bordeaux GSEF 2025 Forum, the program, and the gathering places.
✔ Presentation of the continental advocacy papers and their priorities
✔ A dialogue space connecting young people from all around the world
✔ A key step on the road to the International Youth Declaration

Co-construction of public action, ESCAPE closing seminar
2025-10-02 09:00 - 2025-10-03 19:30 | Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 2 rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
Between 2023 and 2025, the ESCAPE (Économie Solidaire, Co-construction, Action Publique Émergente) participatory research project, financed by the ANR and led by a consortium comprising Cose Commune, CNAM Laboratoire HT2S, Collectif des Associations Citoyennes (CAC), Ligue de l’enseignement (LDH), the Mouvement pour l’Économie Solidaire (MES), the Réseau national des Maisons des Associations (RNMA), the Union Fédérale d’Intervention des Structures Culturelles (Ufisc) and the Réseau des collectivités Territoriales pour une Économie Solidaire (RTES), set itself the objectives of taking stock of the co-constructing public action in the SSE field, examining the progress made, the obstacles encountered, the methods implemented and their effects.
We invite you to the ESCAPE closing seminar on October 2 and 3, 2025.

Call to Action – International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty, and against Transnational Corporations
2025-10-16 08:00 - 17:00 | online
Bagnolet: October 16 , International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty, and against Transnational Corporations, at a time when humanity faces a profound systemic crisis, we at La Via Campesina — uniting peasants, rural communities, small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, migrant workers, women, youth, and diverse rural identities — we maintain our conviction that the values of Food Sovereignty are essential for the change we need.
We therefore issue this global call to action: let us strengthen and expand our collective mobilization for Food Sovereignty as a driving force for true systemic transformation.

GSEF 2025, Bordeaux 2025
2025-10-29 08:00 - 2025-10-31 17:00 | Hangar 14, 14 Quai des Chartrons, Bordeaux, 33000, France
In the autumn of 2025, the Global Social and Solidarity Economy Forum will be held for the first time in France, following previous events held in Seoul, Montreal, Bilbao, Mexico City and Dakar.
This major biennial international eventbrings together all the stakeholders in the Social and Solidarity Economy ecosystem.
The aim is to pool the visions and practices that can make the SSE the “standard that will regulate the economy of tomorrow”, imposing the primacy of people and collective projects over capital, and structuring an economy based on proximity and long-term perspectives.

Housing & Food: Communities and local governments driving fair sustainability transitions
2025-11-06 09:00 - 17:30 | European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), rue Belliard/Belliardstraat 99-101, Brussels, 1040, Belgium
European policy dialogue series | November 6th, 2025, EESC Brussels & Livestream
Europe’s long-term wellbeing depends on fair and locally-driven sustainability transitions. Housing and food, our most basic human needs and the two largest household expenses, are powerful entry points for change. Yet, solutions to Europe’s housing and food challenges need to go beyond affordability to ensure sustainability and fairness amid mounting climate and geopolitical pressures.
This policy dialogue series will spotlight action by European civil society and local governments, and advocate to center them in the EU’s Affordable Housing Plan, the implementation of the Vision of Agriculture and Food and other related strategies and post-2027 EU budget planning.

5th International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons
2025-11-26 08:00 - 2025-11-28 17:00 | Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte), Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026, Lisbon, Portugal
This year’s theme is ” Collapse and Regeneration: Community-led initiatives prefiguring liveable futures“. The full Call for Contribution description with submission guidelines is here.
We are facing unprecedented times, marked not only by climate collapse, but also the tearing of the social fabric, due to increased socioeconomic inequality, political polarization, mistrust of institutions and expertise, bellicism, and erosion of an international rules-based order.
Such context is contributing to a growing interest in the performance of the role of “social learning spaces” by community-led initiatives (CLIs) where alternatives to the status quo are experimented with, enacted, and coordinated (Egmose, Hauggaard-Nielsen, and Jacobsen 2022).
We invite researchers, practitioners, activists and policymakers to submit proposals for contributions to this conference, focusing on how CLIs contribute to the regeneration of socioeconomic systems threatened or affected by social, ecological, institutional or political collapse, namely by promoting cultural (including ethical) perspectives that emphasise cyclicity over linearity, therefore supporting regenerative and tendentially post-extractivist approaches to livelihoods.

Important dates

Opening of registrations – July 1st
Deadline for submission of proposals – May 31st 2025
Notification of contributors – June 30th
Deadline for registration (conference presenters) – October 6th
Publication of the Final Programme – October 15th
Deadline for registration (non-presenters) – October 25th
Beginning of the conference – November 26th
Submission of full paper for peer review and publication – January 15th 2026

URGENCI International Symposium: “CSA Facing Challenges and Building Solidarity”
2025-12-11 08:00 - 2025-12-13 17:00 | La Bergerie de Villarceaux, 95710 Chaussy, France
There are many burning issues within our communities. How can we build ever-greater mobilization to realize the right to food and nutrition? In the aftermath of the pandemic, where does the power of our partnerships lie in providing a resilient basis for disarticulated societies? What is the role of peasant agroecology in building local solidarity-based partnerships between producers and conscious eaters? How to ensure that our partnerships are contributing to building stronger social links? How can we ensure our efforts are collectivised and reflected in policy for genuinely sustainable food systems and nutrition for all?
During the 9th International Symposium of Local and Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology, we will take a breath and look together at our success stories, our common vision, our experiences, lessons learnt and at our joint challenges. Farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, conscious eaters, network representatives and supporters, advocates – all are going to converge for this meeting. Workshops, exchanges of practices: the actors coming from all corners of the world will have the opportunity to build a new chapter for the movement.
