RIPESS Europe

5th International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons
2025-11-26 08:00 - 2025-11-28 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | 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.
