6th International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons
2026-11-04 08:00 - 2026-11-06 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
This year’s theme is “Hacking Our Common Future: Transnational cooperation between community-led initiatives in a fragmented world“. The full Call for Contribution description with submission guidelines is here.
Hacking our Common Future is an invitation to engage collectively in the unfinished work of recomposing economies, institutions, and ways of life – across borders and differences – through experimentation, cooperation, and shared responsibility for the worlds we are already inhabiting and transforming.
Building on the 5th edition’s focus on Collapse and Regeneration, this conference shifts attention to what comes next: the active, collective, and experimental shaping of common futures under conditions of uncertainty, contradiction, and re-colonization, driven by predatory claims over natural resources, as well as securitarian discourses justifying territorial expansion and appropriation.
This conference provides a unique opportunity to exchange on transnational cooperation between community-led initiatives (CLIs) promoting grassroots resistance against such re-colonization, as well as on the structural and institutional conditions for the development of grassroots-led emancipatory alternatives.
